On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Steven S. Klug wrote:

>
> often. I think those who think it is useless are either too lazy to press
> the button often enough, or have a case of sour grapes (or is that berries?)

I stopped foraging for a different reason. I don't play at
640x480 so I can't put my instruments in a bag. They (along
with weapons) take up 4 of my 8 main inventory slots. Due to
weight concerns, I had to give up backpacks for large bags.
I have one 6 slot weight reducing pack, one 4 slot weight
reducing pack, and two 6 slot large bags.

That's a total of 22 free slots in my pack. 1 slot goes to my
4th instrument, 1 slot for bandages, 1 slot for a pumice
stone, and 2 slots for food and drink. 5 slots are currently
taken by unbankable no-drops. That leaves me just 12 slots
for loot, and I'm not going to give them up for the dozen or
so different types of foraged food/drink.

The no-drop change will help, as would a 10 slot box of
aku-bar or whatever. Another possible change (could we add it
to the petition?) would be allowing you to open containers in
non-640x480 resolutions from inventory slots on your hotkey
pad. Then I could keep all my instruments in a bag, freeing
me to carry 4 more containers.

--
John H. Kim
kim@...