Questions about arming Mercs.


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Post Tuesday, 12th March 2013, 14:49

Questions about arming Mercs.

It's been brought to my attention that mercenaries (like Efreet) can once again arm themselves from the floor items, and presumably use armour.

Questions abound:
1) Does this apply to Jewelery too?

2) What about cursed items; orc followers get Beogh blessings to remove curse; how does it work for mercs; are they eternally screwed?

3) Other than death or an improved weapon, how do you get them to relinquish items?

4) Do they drop the equipment when they die?

I think adding a "disarm" talk command to force all allies within earshot to drop all their weapons / armour / jewelery (and set them to "don't arm yourself" mode) would be the simplest way to enable the least of management abilities, and might also be a fun enhancement to the Charm spell.
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Post Tuesday, 12th March 2013, 16:52

Re: So we can arm Mercs again...

Personally I like Mercenaries and wouldn't mind some improvements being carried out to make Non-Beogh and Non-Yred characters benefit from them a little more.
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