Good thoughts. :) Don't forget about the 20 lb cloaks as well... that's the one that always make me scratch my head. Obj weights are perhaps the most abused attribute of all. I believe the reason most weights are skewed, esp for weapons, was to restrict certain weapons to a strength to wield. A 22 lb sword would need an 18/50 str, and so on. I will be working on a new way to do the minimum str to wield thing, and make item weight more reasonable. And with longswords....the debate would invariably come up; but can you then backstab with a longsword if it's a piercing weapon? Code- wise, yes. Realistically, not really. I once ran around on a mud with a heavy ashen lance to backstab with, because it was declared as type_pierce. :) I am toying with the idea of size fields for items, and disallowing a backstab with a lance of a type_large. Has anyone else done this yet? My first thought is to increase the item values from 4 to 6, with the new slot on all items devoted to a size field. -- -axl @)-->--- "Beneath the stain of time, the feeling disappears. axl@mindwarp You are someone else. I am still right here." - NIN +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | +-----------------------------------------------------------+
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