Store 9, the convenience store...
Posted: Thu 06.03.2008, 02:26
Waiting around town scumming the merchants isn't what makes Mangband fun. It's fun when you're lucky, but when you aren't, it's really bad.
I'm all for that hard to come by items shouldn't or only VERY rarely be available in town. But a few necessary items you have to wait around for. Sometimes for hours.
I believe the following items should be in town at all times. Either in store 9 or in the currently available stores:
- Scroll of Teleportation: You'd think that with all the magic, these would be easy-peasy. If not, make a market for them so mages can summon these scrolls? PW says there are many useless mage-spell slots anyway, heh. I'd happily donate cash to help a Half-troll mage...
- Staff of Teleportation: At lower lvls, who leaves town without them?
- Potion of restore x-stat: Waiting for these even for 5 minutes. When you're eager to dive is a pain.
- Ring of Resist poison: These rings cost so much. If you're rdy to pay that much for poison resist, it should be available to you most of the time. You rarely have 90k to burn on this unless you're high enough lvl where it's required, and this becomes an irritable time-sink.
- Maybe a lvl 50's store, where you can buy potions that heals for 450, but no cuts, bruises or anything similar. This way it might be possible to handle the nasty uniques before Sauron/Morgoth without having to farm *healing potions* for a year like Warrior did. I dunno, it's just a thought. Or I just need to improve my skills to be able to kill the Tarrasque with regular heals. (could be implemented with a glyph that only allows lvl 50 players. And once someone leaves the store, the glyphs are reset and the player is teleported away in town.
ZAL
I'm all for that hard to come by items shouldn't or only VERY rarely be available in town. But a few necessary items you have to wait around for. Sometimes for hours.
I believe the following items should be in town at all times. Either in store 9 or in the currently available stores:
- Scroll of Teleportation: You'd think that with all the magic, these would be easy-peasy. If not, make a market for them so mages can summon these scrolls? PW says there are many useless mage-spell slots anyway, heh. I'd happily donate cash to help a Half-troll mage...
- Staff of Teleportation: At lower lvls, who leaves town without them?
- Potion of restore x-stat: Waiting for these even for 5 minutes. When you're eager to dive is a pain.
- Ring of Resist poison: These rings cost so much. If you're rdy to pay that much for poison resist, it should be available to you most of the time. You rarely have 90k to burn on this unless you're high enough lvl where it's required, and this becomes an irritable time-sink.
- Maybe a lvl 50's store, where you can buy potions that heals for 450, but no cuts, bruises or anything similar. This way it might be possible to handle the nasty uniques before Sauron/Morgoth without having to farm *healing potions* for a year like Warrior did. I dunno, it's just a thought. Or I just need to improve my skills to be able to kill the Tarrasque with regular heals. (could be implemented with a glyph that only allows lvl 50 players. And once someone leaves the store, the glyphs are reset and the player is teleported away in town.
ZAL