I fundamentally disagree with this. Good game design eliminates scumming to protect players from their own weakness.
Personally I would remove the BM altogether, but if we have one I agree that the BM should be the exception to the 0-or-100% rule. I would solve the BM problem a different way: make its stock never rotate on its own, only when @ buys something to free up a slot. (I guess this is just a lazy coder's version of forcing Sang-style "investment" in the BM.)
I really quite like the idea of the store contents being different from game to game (but fixed for each game). So one game might have !CCW, but the other only !CSW. One game might have plain longbows, the other plain xbows. I guess there would need to be certain items guaranteed every game (?WoR, ?PD, food, light, ammo), but this could work.
@Invisible Stalker: the free market idea has been discussed several times. My conclusion is that it's quite a lot of work for something that most people would view as quite a small improvement. But I'd happily test a branch which implemented it, and merge it if people liked it!
Personally I would remove the BM altogether, but if we have one I agree that the BM should be the exception to the 0-or-100% rule. I would solve the BM problem a different way: make its stock never rotate on its own, only when @ buys something to free up a slot. (I guess this is just a lazy coder's version of forcing Sang-style "investment" in the BM.)
I really quite like the idea of the store contents being different from game to game (but fixed for each game). So one game might have !CCW, but the other only !CSW. One game might have plain longbows, the other plain xbows. I guess there would need to be certain items guaranteed every game (?WoR, ?PD, food, light, ammo), but this could work.
@Invisible Stalker: the free market idea has been discussed several times. My conclusion is that it's quite a lot of work for something that most people would view as quite a small improvement. But I'd happily test a branch which implemented it, and merge it if people liked it!
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