Re: YANI - Fix wishing

dogscoff wrote:
On May 31, 12:27 pm, Henry J Cobb <h...@xxxxxx> wrote:
A wish for Silver Dragon Scale Mail would give the player directions to
the nearest Silver Dragon. (To be fair that dragon would be marked to
100% drop scales when it goes.)

Hmm. Do you mean a new branch/ level would be created, with a "silver
dragon quest"? Or do you mean the game should tell the player to head
on down to dlvl 25 and look on the right-hand side of the level? What
if that level hasn't been generated yet? I think a special level (or
just porting a live dragon onto the player's head) would be good. What
about smaller wishes though? A wish for a marker? A tin of spinach? Do
we really need a spinach quest?

The more expensive the item (pricetags are already provided for everything), the deeper down you'll be sent to find it.

If the level has already been generated then the beasty will simply be placed. If the level has yet to be generated then a note is attached to add the critter when the level is created.

For fairness add the Oracle to this also so that he answers questions for a cost and gives the same sort of directions. Most of the time I don't bother talking to the Oracle at all. I just pile a bunch of statues in front of him, zap the statues and leave the Oracle to fume and rave.

-HJC
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