Chain Mail

[snow]

Chain mail should have an EV penalty of 3 matching dragon armour. At the moment it's usually just ditched for a plate and the choice between chain mail and dragon armour is a no brainer. Even with an EV penalty of 3 it still won't be that great but some people might pick it over a plate.

Also leather should probably be changed to 0, ring to 1, and scale to 2. Atm you either stick with a robe/plate until maybe swapping to a dragon armor. changing their ev penalties would remove these no brainer decisions and add more variety to gameplay.

[galehar]

EVP has been changed to encumbrance rating and chain has been merged with splint and buffed to 8 AC. Further changes to the dragon armours might be welcome, but you should test what has already been changed.

http://gitorious.org/crawl/crawl/commit/642d18e
http://gitorious.org/crawl/crawl/commit/a04a6eb

[rchandra]

also, using leather rather than robe is pretty common.