Some ideas about the game have occurred to me recently and I thought I'd post them here to see what people think.
Specifically, I'm wondering if Angband would be a better game if acquisition of artifacts was more closely tied to defeating uniques. Personally, I'm always a little disappointed when I go to the trouble of taking on, say, the Tarrasque, and being rewarded with relatively useless stuff.
So, would the game be improved if artifacts could only be acquired through killing uniques? You'd still be motivated to take on mobs to acquire ego items and consumables (not to mention items like RoS, armor and shields of permanence, etc.), but if you wanted artifacts, you'd have to risk a little bit more to get them. (It's possible that there's already a variant that has taken this approach and I just don't know about it.)
I suppose you could also reconfigure ?Acquirement so that they were both much rarer and always resulted in manifestation of an artifact. That sort of boost has worked well before — chests used to be filled with junk before they were beefed up.
That's it, those are the ideas. Thoughts?
Specifically, I'm wondering if Angband would be a better game if acquisition of artifacts was more closely tied to defeating uniques. Personally, I'm always a little disappointed when I go to the trouble of taking on, say, the Tarrasque, and being rewarded with relatively useless stuff.
So, would the game be improved if artifacts could only be acquired through killing uniques? You'd still be motivated to take on mobs to acquire ego items and consumables (not to mention items like RoS, armor and shields of permanence, etc.), but if you wanted artifacts, you'd have to risk a little bit more to get them. (It's possible that there's already a variant that has taken this approach and I just don't know about it.)
I suppose you could also reconfigure ?Acquirement so that they were both much rarer and always resulted in manifestation of an artifact. That sort of boost has worked well before — chests used to be filled with junk before they were beefed up.
That's it, those are the ideas. Thoughts?
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