Proposal: Autopickup anything Stackable you already carry
Posted: Tuesday, 2nd December 2014, 21:21
Having Sticks to Snakes or Sandblast memorized causes a player to automatically pick up the associated components from the ground, by default.
With the weight limits gone, there is no reason to not pick up ammo you can use from the ground.
Rules governing this:
- potions and scrolls are already stackable and always auto-pickup.
- ammo from spells that require ammo become auto-pickup.
- auto-pickups of ammo are sometimes set at character creation time based on profession
- there is no reason for you to be carrying ammo that you do not intend to use.
- don't pick up variants of ammo that you aren't currently carrying (don't auto-pick up that poison needle if you are only carrying curare); this will prevent inventory from becoming full and ammo you don't want picked up to be picked up. If you want it auto-picked-up, pick up at least one of it.
- leave auto-pickup of items (thrown) to "on" if the inventory slot is emptied, unless those items are explicitly dropped. Since no one picks up items from the floor anymore, there is no reason to "throw" to "drop" items (for example, throwing dangerous weapons into lava), except in the obscure event you don't want a floor jelly to randomly absorb it.
Old, unworkable, proposal (referred to by crate) in spoiler.
With the weight limits gone, there is no reason to not pick up ammo you can use from the ground.
Rules governing this:
- potions and scrolls are already stackable and always auto-pickup.
- ammo from spells that require ammo become auto-pickup.
- auto-pickups of ammo are sometimes set at character creation time based on profession
- there is no reason for you to be carrying ammo that you do not intend to use.
- don't pick up variants of ammo that you aren't currently carrying (don't auto-pick up that poison needle if you are only carrying curare); this will prevent inventory from becoming full and ammo you don't want picked up to be picked up. If you want it auto-picked-up, pick up at least one of it.
- leave auto-pickup of items (thrown) to "on" if the inventory slot is emptied, unless those items are explicitly dropped. Since no one picks up items from the floor anymore, there is no reason to "throw" to "drop" items (for example, throwing dangerous weapons into lava), except in the obscure event you don't want a floor jelly to randomly absorb it.
Old, unworkable, proposal (referred to by crate) in spoiler.
Spoiler: show