Barkeep
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Joined: Wednesday, 14th August 2013, 23:25
Location: USA
Remove/reform written description of MR level
For a long time, and at least as of 0.17, players with two pips of MR have been described in game as being "very resistant," and three pips as "extremely resistant." (Apologies if this has been changed in 0.18, haven't played it yet because Mac offline Tiles version is still not working....)
While there is a subjective element in terms of how exactly one interprets "very" and "extremely," the current word choice strikes me as rather misleading. I think most people would reasonably expect to avoid the vast majority of hostile enchantments if their MR level is described as "very resistant."
I'd propose either removing the written descriptions of MR level, as they are not necessary now that the character screen displays MR pips. If the descriptions stay, I would suggest at the very least changing them to something like the following:
----- Not resistant to hostile enchantment
*---- Slightly resistant
**--- Somewhat resistant
***-- Quite resistant
****- Very resistant
***** Almost entirely resistant