On Thu, 15 Jul 1999 silky@... wrote:

>
> I was outraged by lvl 1's in better stuff than I expect to have at lvl 30,
> maybe even 40.
>
> I'm just amazed Verant found a way for it not to matter all that much - as
> I see these guys dead on a regular basis. It's nice to know character
> development apparently counts for a LOT more than 'stuff', even stuff as
> nice as that.

Most people don't realize it, but a lot of the enjoyment of
the game is the anticipation just before you loot something -
will it or won't it have a nice item? I once modified the
source of an RPG so I could start off with the best stuff.
It made the game really boring - the item drops didn't matter
because I already had the best stuff, so all that was left was
endlessly killing monsters for experience.

--
John H. Kim
kim@...