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gorothon
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posted 26 December 2001 19:57     Click Here to See the Profile for gorothon   Click Here to Email gorothon        Reply w/Quote   
Should i have mephisto drop aldures set? Make your choice also if u have another set in mind please post I will tell ya if a monster drops it or not thanx my friends!!!

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Apocalypse Demon
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posted 27 December 2001 00:10     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
Wouldn't the mod be too easy if the bosses dropped whole sets at once?

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gorothon
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posted 27 December 2001 05:16     Click Here to See the Profile for gorothon   Click Here to Email gorothon        Reply w/Quote   
Thats part of the point of my mod is to give players a chance to gain a full set which is rare to get in the first place(not trying to sound rude my friend)!!! Is having bloodRaven dropping the cube any easier?(see my point dude?

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Incandescent One
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posted 27 December 2001 05:30     Click Here to See the Profile for Incandescent One   Click Here to Email Incandescent One        Reply w/Quote   Visit Incandescent One's Homepage!
Hey Gorothon, good idea , but i'd say half a set, give people some encouragement to go back & do it all again just to get the other components of that set (my personal opinion is that the longevity of something is governed by random elements, take those away & it can get boring/routine very quickly.)
So it's a good idea, just work out the balance till you're happy with it, i agree with the comment about rarity of sets, i completed Hell difficulty on battlenet & only managed to find Haemosu's cuirass & Hwannin's Justice with my level 76 druid, so i'd be happy to see more sets in the game, if only to see what they do (Yeah, i could just extract the files & look for myself, but it's not the same!)

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Forsaken
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From: Dutch guy in France
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posted 27 December 2001 05:36     Click Here to See the Profile for Forsaken   Click Here to Email Forsaken        Reply w/Quote   
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Originally posted by gorothon:
Thats part of the point of my mod is to give players a chance to gain a full set which is rare to get in the first place(not trying to sound rude my friend)!!! Is having bloodRaven dropping the cube any easier?(see my point dude?


Maybe a whole set is a little too much of a good thing. What I'm doing in my mod is having powerful items drop every now and then, and then yuoi have the choice of using them "as is", or putting a couple of them in the cube for an even more powerful item. As for Blood Raven dropping the cube, I just created my charstats.txt so all characters start off with a cube, much easier :-)

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gorothon
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posted 27 December 2001 06:27     Click Here to See the Profile for gorothon   Click Here to Email gorothon        Reply w/Quote   
how do u do that forsaken how do u make a chracter start with a cube?

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Forsaken
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posted 27 December 2001 06:32     Click Here to See the Profile for Forsaken   Click Here to Email Forsaken        Reply w/Quote   
In charstats.txt you can specify which items they start with. So as the code you put in "box", and as quantity 1. Voila. In some cases I like having characters start with a cap and gloves and boots and stuff like that to make the levelling to level 6 in the beginning a little easier.

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gorothon
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posted 27 December 2001 08:40     Click Here to See the Profile for gorothon   Click Here to Email gorothon        Reply w/Quote   
Thanx forsaken i had no idea u could do that!!!!!!

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Syntaks
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posted 27 December 2001 09:37     Click Here to See the Profile for Syntaks   Click Here to Email Syntaks        Reply w/Quote   
I'm simply upping the chance to drop sets in my mod. You'll have at least a 50/50 chance to find a set piece in any chest, and boss/champions monsters will have a better chance as well..

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jbouley
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posted 27 December 2001 13:52     Click Here to See the Profile for jbouley   Click Here to Email jbouley        Reply w/Quote   Visit jbouley's Homepage!
Yeah, the boss-set-drop issue is tricky. I tried to set several bosses and superunique, "mini-boss" types to just have a very high chance of dropping set items in general, to help characters get full sets more easily.

On the other hand, I also did the very uncreative move of forcing (I hope...initial testing was a bit spotty on success) the Cow King to drop his full set in Normal difficulty...just because I think he should.

Another possibility if you want to make it easier but not too easy is to increase the NoDrop rate or make the number of picks random and no able to drop all the items. So, for example, put the base items for the set in there for Mephisto, add a few other items like gold or potion classes, so that you have, say, 8 choices for Mephisto to drop, put a high value in the Set column, set all the Probs to 1, set NoDrop to 0, and set Picks to 2 or 3 (NOT -2 or -3...that would screw up this plan).

Having positive 2 or 3 in this case will make the game pick that many times (2 or 3 depending on which you put in there) randomly from the choice you have in there.

This means the character would have to make probably at least 2 Mephisto runs...and probably more...to get the full set.

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