Re: LEGENDS: NIC items list invalid

From: dresnick@athena.mit.edu (David I Resnick)

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 15:26:33 +0000

In article <1993Sep28.174337.14556@fx.com> griffith@fx.com (Jim Griffith) writes:
>   What I've heard from MG is that there has been a lot of effort made so that
>   NIC items will have the same names between different NIC games, but they will
>   have different effects.  As such, there is little or no value in maintaining
>   a "NIC items list" unless you *religiously* denote the specific game for which
>   the information is valid.  Luckily, Dean is doing that, but it's important
>   that people who contribute to this list make sure to give Dean complete
>   information, or else your information is generally worthless.

>  Realistically, you should consider the "name" of a NIC item to be the
>  "description" of the item.  So, for instance, you have a "Griffon Shield",
>  which is nothing more than a shield with a griffon emblem.  What it does
>  may or may not be related to the emblem, but don't count on it.  This holds
>  for most of the NIC items I've seen - broken guitar, twisted ladder, sweet
>  strung mandolin, cheap hard liquor, wooden stake weapon, mithril gauntlets,
>  etc.  You won't get as many things like "Medal of Persuasion" or
>  "Dragonslayer Boots" like you did in COA or RTI.

Maybe.  Maybe not too.  All items I've found that are on the list
behave as described (only 4-5 items, I admit, but no counter
examples).  Have you ACTUALLY seen any specific examples where the
differences between Dean's list and what you observe can't be
attributed to reporting errors?  It isn't always easy at first glance
to figure out exactly what the contributions of an item are to your stats if
multiple things are going on at once (you are fighting battles,
morphing, etc).

Whatever MG says, I won't believe for now that they are motivated
enough to do major changes from game to game in the items
list.  If it turns out that they did, it will eventually become
apparent.  We shall see.

-David

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       David Resnick                           dresnick@athena.mit.edu

References

LEGENDS: NIC items list invalid
griffith@fx.com (Jim Griffith)
Tue, 28 Sep 1993 17:43:37 +0000