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Artifact and #offer rebalance, part 1: sacrifice gifts

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In 3.6, artifact gifts are often either a) entirely useless or
b) gamebreaking, neither of which is really ideal from a balance
perspective.

This commit aims to make artifact gifts more useful in the early
game by greatly increasing the chance for situational artifacts to
generate positively enchanted.  However, the most powerful
artifacts will now only be gifted if you offer a high-value corpse,
meaning that they are only likely to be accessible later in the
game.  The selection of which artifact to gift has become more
complicated in order to a) increase the chance that it fits the
character and b) reduce cheese strategies (e.g. it is no longer
possible for elves to force the gifting of Stormbringer as the
first sacrifice gift).
This commit is contained in:
Alex Smith
2024-12-12 03:14:47 +00:00
parent aedb24d343
commit d87cadaf73
8 changed files with 163 additions and 83 deletions
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@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ staticfn void offer_negative_valued(boolean, aligntyp);
staticfn void offer_fake_amulet(struct obj *, boolean, aligntyp);
staticfn void offer_different_alignment_altar(struct obj *, aligntyp);
staticfn void sacrifice_your_race(struct obj *, boolean, aligntyp);
staticfn int bestow_artifact(void);
staticfn int bestow_artifact(uchar);
staticfn int sacrifice_value(struct obj *);
staticfn int eval_offering(struct obj *, aligntyp);
staticfn void offer_corpse(struct obj *, boolean, aligntyp);
@@ -1777,17 +1777,24 @@ sacrifice_your_race(
}
staticfn int
bestow_artifact(void)
bestow_artifact(uchar max_giftvalue)
{
int nartifacts = nartifact_exist();
boolean do_bestow = u.ulevel > 2 && u.uluck >= 0;
if (do_bestow) {
/* you were already in pretty good standing */
/* The player can gain an artifact */
/* The chance goes down as the number of artifacts goes up */
if (wizard)
do_bestow = y_n("Gift an artifact?");
else
do_bestow = !rn2(6 + (2 * u.ugifts * nartifacts));
}
/* you were already in pretty good standing */
/* The player can gain an artifact */
/* The chance goes down as the number of artifacts goes up */
if (u.ulevel > 2 && u.uluck >= 0
&& !rn2(10 + (2 * u.ugifts * nartifacts))) {
if (do_bestow) {
struct obj *otmp;
otmp = mk_artifact((struct obj *) 0, a_align(u.ux, u.uy));
otmp = mk_artifact((struct obj *) 0, a_align(u.ux, u.uy),
max_giftvalue);
if (otmp) {
char buf[BUFSZ];
@@ -2078,7 +2085,7 @@ offer_corpse(struct obj *otmp, boolean highaltar, aligntyp altaralign)
}
} else {
int saved_luck = u.uluck;
if (bestow_artifact())
if (bestow_artifact(value))
return;
change_luck((value * LUCKMAX) / (MAXVALUE * 2));
if ((int) u.uluck < 0)