Wand of digging and evocations skill


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Ziggurat Zagger

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Post Tuesday, 5th November 2019, 08:43

Wand of digging and evocations skill

Currently it seems that picking up a wand of digging enables training evocations. Perhaps this shouldn't happen, since evocations skill has no effect on wands of digging.

Alternative solution: make evocations skill affect wands of digging (either give them a chance to fail or make the skill affect how many squares you can dig).
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Post Tuesday, 5th November 2019, 18:21

Re: Wand of digging and evocations skill

Third solution: let people train skills without a related item.

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Post Tuesday, 5th November 2019, 22:58

Re: Wand of digging and evocations skill

Currently the skill menu is more compact when you don't have all weapon and spell skills displayed. So in principle I have nothing against being able to train whatever, but the skill menu would be worse UI-wise imo. Unless you have an option to show only skills that currently have some effect. (In which case, don't show evocations if a wand of digging is the only evokable you have...)

Edit: I just realized that we already have the option of showing all skills, so you could pick the skill to train from there. So I guess there's no problem there. Just make it so that the primary skill display shows all trained skills and all skills that have an effect with your current equipment.
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Post Wednesday, 6th November 2019, 16:00

Re: Wand of digging and evocations skill

^ Just make skills for stuff you don't have off-colored so players know they're training XP into something they don't have at present. Current toggle interface could show/hide them.

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