Category: Suggestions and Improvements
Topic: Talk to Simutronics
Author: DR-GONK
Posted: Jul 07, 1998 18:59:17
Okay, several changes are in the works for alchemy. Mostly it will be things that won't be real visible to you, but are necessary to set up things for the future. There will be several new things to make, both immediately, and over the coming months, but the major change will be in how experience gets awarded.
The idea behind this is to give mech lore experience in bigger "chunks" so that you can learn what you need without having to spend hours crushing, breaking and combining things. Instead, the experience awards for finishing a potion will be upped significantly, and the experience for the "prep" stuff will be cut drastically. Players with low skill will still get a fair bit that way, but players with even medium ranks will get close to nothing from crushing, breaking etc.
Along with the exp changes, and the new potions, several other changes will be noticable.
Break and Crush will both work much more quickly for players with any real experience. I.e., instead of it taking 10 tries to crush something it now might take only 2 or 3. Also, all the wierd volume stuff in all the systems should get fixed.
Making potions-the way the catalyst calculations were being done is totally different. Anything that worked before will still work, but tempurature and physical state will play a much more significant role. Many potions can even be made without a catalyst given enough heat. Which is only fair, since infinite Dracon Crystals are going bye bye.
Combine is going away totally. It never made much sense, and without the experience aspect, I just couldn't justify keeping it around. There will still be a way to combine solid substances, but I'll leave that up to you to discover. Some time in the (near) future, we will put in bundling for herbs to handle that aspect of it.
I can't say for sure when exactly this will be coming out, but -hopefully- it will be before simucon, if not then shortly after. Please move any discussions about these changes over to the alchemy folder in strategy and tactics so we can keep the discussion focused.
