Aaron Bolch wrote:
>
> From: "Aaron Bolch" <aaronbolch@...>
>
> >From: Ralph Scott <rscott@...>
>
> >In general I would agree with you but bear in mind this. There are
> >probably
> >no more than a couple of dozen serious tinkerers. Heck gnomes
> >themselves are
> >very rare. I see very few as compared to elves or humans.
> >
> >With such a small population, it IS possible for the secret to be held.
> >Even more so when all the other things you get from tinkering are useful
> >to practically no one.
>
> I do agree that the entire tinkering population is quite small, but there
> are literally thousands of players out there that search for new quests and
> item info every day. In the course of these events, they will eventually
> find something to do with tinkering. No one specifically looks for new
> quests in hopes of getting a specific result. They search for them to find
Well. I am not sure that what we want is at the end of a quest. It
just may
be yet another book in some smithy shop that no one ever bothers to
check out
because we've seen those same books many times.
> something new in hopes of profitting from it in some way. These people
> don't say "let's find tinkering stuff today". They say "let's find
> something new tody". So, I do not agree with your statement that only a
> tiny fraction of the world actively searches for things. People stumble
> upon stuff, its just unfortunate that none of it has been about tinkering.
>
> > > spyglass = useful?
> >
> >Apparently wizards have a spell that does the same thing.
>
> Wizards have a whole line of such spells, but others don't, so I believe
> that the spyglass is, at least, marginally useful. The reasons are:
>
> 1. No merchant or mob drop supplies similar items.
> 2. Most people can't perform similar feats using their class abilities.
Spyglasses are apparently drops in solusek.
> >As an aside, I heard from a post either here or on a WWW site that one
> >of the
> >files contains the text aqua-lung. Could this be another tinkering
> >item?
> >It certainly sounds so.
>
> It could be anything, or something not implemented, etc. There really isn't
> any reason to believe it is one thing or another.
Probably not implemented i agree. But it doesn't sound like anything
other
than a potential item to be tinkered.
---ralph