miller@nlm-mcs.ARPA (Nancy Miller) (01/17/86)
> (hack 1.0.2) > > I had something interesting happen the other day. I was cruising along > around level 25 or so, wearing the following: +0 Plate mail, +0 gloves, > a +1 shield, and a +3 elven cloak. My total armor class was something > around -5 or -6 (gloves may have been +1). At any rate, I found another > scroll of enchant armor and read it and this is what happened: > > "Your elven cloak glows violently green for a moment--more-- > Your elven cloak has vaninshed..." > > Interesting, eh? Back to -1 armor class. Has this ever happened to > anyone before? I suppose you can't enchant armor past +3.... > > -- > * Isaac Salzman (Gumby) I have wished for +7 plate mail and gotten it. But I get a similar message when I read a scroll of enchant armor that affected it. It appears that for each type of armor there is a maximum enchantment value. Lately I've been wishing for +6 plate mail when I haven't yet seen a scroll of enchant armor. -- ________________________________________________________________________________ __ __ <> <> | `-' Nancy Miller (miller@nlm-mcs.arpa)
andrew@hammer.UUCP (Andrew Klossner) (01/18/86)
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"It appears that for each type of armor there is a maximum
enchantment value."
It's been a few months since I looked at the source code, but I believe
that the actual mechanism is that whenever you try to enchant an item
to greater than +3, there is a random chance that the item will
evaporate. This is true of weapons as well as armor.
-=- Andrew Klossner (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew) [UUCP]
(tekecs!andrew.tektronix@csnet-relay) [ARPA]rjk@mrstve.UUCP (Richard Kuhns) (01/20/86)
In article <602@nlm-mcs.ARPA> miller@nlm-mcs.ARPA (Nancy Miller) writes: >> (hack 1.0.2) >> >> I had something interesting happen the other day. I was cruising along >> around level 25 or so, wearing the following: +0 Plate mail, +0 gloves, >> a +1 shield, and a +3 elven cloak. My total armor class was something >> around -5 or -6 (gloves may have been +1). At any rate, I found another >> scroll of enchant armor and read it and this is what happened: >> >> "Your elven cloak glows violently green for a moment--more-- >> Your elven cloak has vaninshed..." >> >> Interesting, eh? Back to -1 armor class. Has this ever happened to >> anyone before? I suppose you can't enchant armor past +3.... >> >> -- >> * Isaac Salzman (Gumby) > >I have wished for +7 plate mail and gotten it. But I get a similar message >when I read a scroll of enchant armor that affected it. It appears that for >each type of armor there is a maximum enchantment value. Lately I've been >wishing for +6 plate mail when I haven't yet seen a scroll of enchant armor. >-- From examining the code, it appears that when _reading a scroll of enchant armor_, there is a random chance (based on current +) that your armor will evaporate if it's currently +3 or better. -- Rich Kuhns {ihnp4, decvax, etc...}!pur-ee!pur-phy!mrstve!rjk