Re: [Crawl-ref-discuss] Too many inventory items these days, meld some

[Nicholas F. <ple...@gm...>]

!resist is also a very inelegant (bad?) design, for similar reasons!

On 30 May 2017 at 17:24, David Ploog <dp...@ma...> wrote:

> On Tue, 30 May 2017, Nicholas Feinberg wrote:
>
> If you want to reduce inventory item types to reduce inventory pressure, I
>> would strongly consider just removing types, rather than combining them
>> willy-nilly.
>>
>
> I wouldn't think that combining !might, !agility, !brilliance is
> willy-nilly: use of the latter is quite disjoint from the first two. Next,
> these are *good* items (like many consumables), because they create good
> decisions. I believe that a combined potion would produce a very similar
> type of choice, at reduced inventory cost.
>
> Is a potion with three different unrelated effects really a good design,
>> something that would be added to the game on its own merits? Or is it just
>> an appeal to crawl's history?
>>
>
> I can resort to hyperbole as well: why does !resist provide a bunch of
> different effects (but not MR+)? Surely we should have !rF+ etc.
>
>
> David
>
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