Alchemy Items

[wonderboysp2p]

it's fine how it is...
let's leave it at that..

[Judge_S]

Originally posted by Satrek2000
What about this: if you look the recipe up somewhere, you got a 20% chance of succeeding. You read it in the game, and you get 50%. YOu actually own the recipe, that is have it with you while alching, you get 90%. Wouldn't that do?

How would Graal be able to tell if you read it up "somewhere" vs. reading it in the game vs. reading it on a recipe you borrow from a friend?

[DragonX]

Originally posted by Judge_S


How would Graal be able to tell if you read it up "somewhere" vs. reading it in the game vs. reading it on a recipe you borrow from a friend?

It could check if you ever had the item.
If you never had it, thats reading it from another source.
If you've had it and don't have it while alchemizing, that is borrowing from a friend.
If you have it while alchemizing, you get the 90% of succeeding.

[konidias]

Bleh, just make it like spells. It solves all these problems. You get a recipe, you learn the recipe, you can type some command to pop up in the F2 window with all the recipes you've learned or something...

Basically you should have a 100% chance of learning the recipe, but it just "vanishes" and you remember the recipe. That way, you can't just go carrying 100 recipe scrolls around, and trading them with all your friends so that you can have every recipe within a couple hours.

So basically:

1) Change recipe scrolls to vanish when read, and also go into the player's "knowledge"
2) Change alchemy so a player can only succeed at a recipe, if they have that recipe in their "knowledge"

This eliminates any form of "cheating" such as going on a website that has a list of all recipes and stuff. Although people could still make a list of all recipes, just for information sake. So that others would know exactly what items are needed without having to pay big money for a scroll just to find out the items needed to make the alchemy item are too hard to find.

I mean it's common sense. It's forced roleplaying, which is heavily applied on my playerworld. It's forced because players don't choose to do it, yet it doesn't negatively affect the gameplay.


HOWEVER, it would be fine if there was a way to teach players recipes IN the game. Meaning like, if you already know a recipe (your character has read the recipe scroll), you could perhaps "teach" other players the recipe somehow. But it would be limited or require some kind of penalty of some sort, seeing as how someone with all the spells would just easily teach everyone if there wasn't a penalty.

[Satrek2000]

Maybe teaching only one recipe to one player in a month/week or something. And these scrolls should be less rare than they are, I know recipes which I've never seen the scroll of...