No Sell - I am convinced

[Derakon]

A feeling of death flows throughout your body. -more- You have no more Black Potions of Life. -more- You are dead.

[Max Stats]

A feeling of death flows throughout your body. -more- You have no more Black Potions of Life. -more- You are dead.

With your final breath, you summon the strength to mutter: "Oh, the irony!"

[nobody]

the problem with no-sell is that i really like selling. the problem with id by use on potions and scrolls, is often you can't tell what they are unless you try them whilst affected by the status they fix, or in certain situations, which is just dumb to me. i know no-sell doesn't automatically mean you have to id by use, but screw giving stuff away. (to fake people in a game at least) as for being a bad player, i just am, regardless of playing sell or no-sell, and i'm fine with it.

[Raxmei]

I certainly wouldn't *complain* if ID by use got more reliable. I can live with what we already have but there are some annoying bits.

[Icon]

I thought everybody avoided being burned by Summon Monster (or Summon Undead) by making sure they were standing on a staircase before reading any untried scrolls. One day d_m will fix monster energy so that summons are guaranteed not to move before @ gets a turn, and then all will be fine ;-) (at the moment it only happens about 2-5% of the time anyway).

Well that was my technique for using wands of polymorph to speed levelling back in my Moria days.

[Raggy]

Carry more arrows, then.

Well its impossible. I buy up the 99 arrows the general store stacks, and the few arrows (if any) the weapon shop have.

I always run out of ammo first, than any of the other consumables I as a ranger carry.

I feel that the 33% (?) break rate of arrows are to often, or the shops need to carry more arrows.

Of course I could switch to a crossbow, but I rarely find any which are better than the bows I find, so I opt for more damage.

[Derakon]

Wow, you must be using your arrows to kill everything then. Even when I play a ranger I use melee for most monsters, just because the tedium of retrieving ammo after each fight is wearing otherwise.

[nobody]

yeah, thats probably what happens. myself, i usually only arrow to death shrooms, jellys, things like that, and arrow to weaken strong things. weak things that won't hurt my equipment, stats, or status get meleed

[Netbrian]

Wow, you must be using your arrows to kill everything then. Even when I play a ranger I use melee for most monsters, just because the tedium of retrieving ammo after each fight is wearing otherwise.

I wish that there were magnetic arrows that I could just cast a spell to collect or something.

[Raxmei]

To think Angband's inventory management used to be less friendly to archery. I normally go mostly melee anyway, but then I've never gotten terribly far with Rangers.

[Raggy]

I see the point of Blackmarket, raised in the poll thread.

Sometimes I'm short just 1k or even less to buy a wanted item in the BM. Maybe some sort of exchange policy?

For this ring of slaying, I'll most happily take your "The Rapier 'Forasgil'"

[Tibarius]

A quick thought on no_selling. I play certain types of characters. Currently i play gnome mage and try to become winner without the use of melee or firing.

If i find a powerfull sword, that does not give a resist, or some other benefit - it is useless for me. Even the Megadamage whip of slay something is worth nothing. But still i am happy about finding it, because i can sell it in town and hope to get something usefull over the black market (which ridiculously has already several priest spell books at sale, but no mage books *whine*).

If i cannot sell stuff anymore, i will have less often the 'lucky feeling' of finding something which benefits me in a certain way. I think that just finding gold does not give the same amount of satisfaction that the items you can sell do.

On the other hand, i am most likely in for the idea to abolish all shops. You only keep what you think could turn out usefull in the future.

P.S. If identify becomes available via consumable scroll - then the feature could eliminated as well. Why bother with IDing stuff, if it is expected that the player does it anyway. Then all items could be IDed by standard and noone would have to care about ID at all. Or eliminate ID at all - that at last would force the player to try things out.

Cheers,
Tibarius

[Zikke]

You can play a no-sell game without having a setting that forces it. Just don't keep anything for selling.

[CunningGabe]

You can play a no-sell game without having a setting that forces it. Just don't keep anything for selling.

That's true, but the no-sell setting also boosts gold drops to compensate.

[dos350]

jsjjajjajaj now ur talking of ways to sell in no sell? cant anyone tell its ridiculous?~!