Pandemonium Purger
Posts: 1337
Joined: Saturday, 7th July 2012, 02:28
Location: Limbo
Purge the devil: Remove item destruction
- It accomplishes nothing but placing an artificial 'optimal' style of play where a lot of consumables are stashed away in a safe place.
It's inconsistent as all hell.
It outright punishes you for wearing anything but a cloak of preservation.
It bugs the living hell out of the vast majority of players.
It makes people drop all their scrolls if they're about to face a mottled dragon to avoid losing all their scrolls. And dropping all their potions before entering an ice cave. And dropping all their scrolls before a volcano.
It is superfluous to actual item generation, inventory slot limitations and carry weight. Two of which can be adjusted.
Why must we still have such a problematic "feature" if all it serves to do is annoy people, create pointless dropping games - all while not accomplishing anything.
The only case where item destruction is even interesting is in Zot:5, where you have the choice of either your scrolls or your mundanity due to orbs of fire mutating and burning you.
But this is so late in the game that it hardly even matters.
Remove it.