Re: Quest: suggestions for startup please

From: t_yamasi@hoffman.cc.sophia.ac.jp (Yamashiki Tsuyoshi)

Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1993 08:56:59 +0000

I never tried to be "professional burglars" partly because I doubt if I
can keep robbing in the same town.  (And moving to another city is a big
waste of time.)  That's why all of my parties are "questers," and I guess
I'll be sticking to this method until I get 15 members with chain mails
equipped.
Now don't get transporting quest!  It's not worth it.  Transporting
letters is ok since it's a one-way job, but doesn't compare to higher
quest.
You need to have 2,000 or more exps to get a higher quest.  The easiest
way to get exps (that I found so far) is by miracles.  Keep casting, say,
Strength(301).  Try to use up all power points -- that way more PPs will
get restored.  You could wonder around and hit monsters for extra exps.
Trolls are ideal -- you can't kill them with weapons and your party will
end up earning hundreds of exps by hitting.
When you've got enough exps, buy a higher quest in a temple.  You can
accept the quest, kill of the mentioned monster group, come back to the
town, get the reward and buy another quest in the next tern.  Yes, it's
possible!  With Wrath of Sundonak(303) or Call Monster(402) it's not hard
to do all this in the same turn.  Some monsters are immune to WOS though.
For this method, you don't need mages, thieves or even fighters!  The
fighters you can recruit at first are crappy anyway.  I would recruit
two fighters (Dwarven and Halfblood) and 4 priests, though you may want
to leave Elven priest as he tends to die easily due to his low HPs.  For
this respect Dwarven and Halfblood priests are the best.  Their skills
may be lower than that of Human priest, but they'll go up soon.  Human
priest, however, has the highest charisma (the attribute that can't be
trained!) and may be useful for selling things.  For expensive things
the selling price changes dramatically according to the charisma.
Recruit mages later, and accept only when he has 39 or so skill.  You'll
want to have at least 2 Elven mages.  Their spells are just too useful
to miss, but you don't need them at the beginning.
Recruit a thief later too, as he's the one to open secret doors and
disarm traps at the later stage.
Recruiting fighters:  Recruit one (any types' ok but Dwarves are the
best) and do the following in the next turn; accept him, cast Strength
until his ST maxes up (go 99) and buy (not hand) him the right type of
weapon.  The trick is, his skill also goes up as his ST goes up, and
he'll have the skill of the same amount for that type of weapon.  A
fighter with 60-70 skill for one type of weapon from the beginning!
You can buy him Great Sword or Great Axe -- he's skilled enough to
handle them now.
So, my suggestion for initial member is DF, BF, DP, BP, HP and EP.  EP
may be replaced with BT.  You may want to do away with DF and BF later
as you're be able to recruit tougher fighters with the method above.

You may have noticed that I'm a Sundonak believer.  I'd like to hear
from Novala believer -- is it worth worshipping her?  I have this
feeling that casting Luck of Novala several times might cause better
applicants when recruiting.

Brian Carpenter writes:
>There is no 'ideal' startup party, from what I can tell, and I to am
>currently playing a 'concept', allowing only certain races into the group.

This is interesting too.  I'm running a party with only Humans and Elves.
It consists of 5 HF and 4 EF -- yeah!  Elves can be fighters!  They have
decent HPs and can swing Great Swords with the help of Strength(301).

For the first orders, I suggest that you issue PP 0 for the first order to
set your first standing order as P 0.  This will result your priests to
receive skills every turn, though it won't work if you cast little or no
miracles on the turn.
--
Tsuyoshi Yamashiki, lost boy in cyber space.

References

Quest: suggestions for startup please
gam@panix.com (Badger)
Sun, 12 Dec 1993 05:32:05 +0000
Re: Quest: suggestions for startup please
Brian Carpenter <btc2@cornell.edu>
Sun, 12 Dec 1993 23:31:29 +0000

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Quest: suggestions for startup please
gam@panix.com (Badger)
Sun, 12 Dec 1993 05:32:05 +0000
Re: Quest: suggestions for startup please
Brian Carpenter <btc2@cornell.edu>
Sun, 12 Dec 1993 23:31:29 +0000