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Wizards learn about spellbooks as they enhance their spell skills

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Previously, Wizards got a boost to the chance of writing unknown
spellbooks based purely on being a Wizard (with the chance still
luck-based), leading to a very large power spike when the Wizard
gained access to a luckstone and the ability to max out luck.
This had two main issues: this power spike came *after* the major
early-game difficulty spike, often leaving Wizards forced to deal
with it without having appropriate spells; and it promotes
grinding (for Luck and for Magicbane) at an early point in the
game, meaning that the Wizard early game effectively followed a
sequence of extreme difficulty -> grinding -> minimal difficulty,
which isn't very good balance-wise.

With this commit, Wizards lose their advantage to writing unknown
spellbooks by guessing, and instead learn spellbook IDs based on
their spell skills (advancing a skill gives knowledge of higher-
level spellbooks). This means that writing unknown spellbooks
becomes guaranteed with sufficient skill, but has no advantage
over non-Wizards in schools where the Wixard does not have
sufficient skill.

Due to Wizards' skill caps, there are two spells which they can't
ever write guaranteed: create familiar and charm monster. Create
familiar is a fairly niche spell (that doesn't match the Wizard
playstyle that well) and being unable to write it is not a major
problem. The inability to easily write charm monster is
intentional.
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Alex Smith
2023-12-02 03:46:55 +00:00
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commit 319dfbdaa3
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@@ -1292,7 +1292,10 @@ if hero destroys a shop wall by breaking a wand of digging or applying a drum
of earthquake, have shopkeeper demand payment
mimics sometimes woke up and came out of hiding when they shouldn't have if
hero without protection from shape changers returned to a previously
visitied level (though they would usually rehide so it wasn't obvious)
visited level (though they would usually rehide so it wasn't obvious)
Wizards no longer have a bonus to writing unknown spellbooks, but now
learn what spellbooks look like as they gain skill in their
spell schools (allowing a guaranteed write with enough skill)
Fixes to 3.7.0-x General Problems Exposed Via git Repository