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[Chris]

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Greettings!

Had a flash of insite.
When wearing a ring of slow digestion, I think that it would make sense for
the affects of potions to last longer. After all, you are "digesting" said
potion. As this would make "bad" potions as well as "good" potions longer
lasting, I dont think it wouldn't really unbalance anything.

anyhow, just my .02.

ta,
-Chris

 

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"Chris" <loggdogg@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Had a flash of insite.

In which site? In <http://www.nethack.org/>?

> When wearing a ring of slow digestion, I think that it would make sense for
> the affects of potions to last longer. After all, you are "digesting" said
> potion.

You're not, really. The point of the active ingredients in most potions
is _not_ to be digested, but to pass through your alimentary canal and
into your bloodstream intact. This is unlike, say, bread, which starts
being digested right in your mouth (amylase in your saliva) and is
absorbed in broken-down form.

Richard

 

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Chris wrote:

> Had a flash of insite.

"Insight".

> When wearing a ring of slow digestion, I think that it would make
> sense for the affects of potions to last longer. After all, you are
> "digesting" said potion. As this would make "bad" potions as well as
> "good" potions longer lasting, I dont think it wouldn't really
> unbalance anything.

Actually, it would.

After all, you will drink a "bad" potion only once, if at all. "Good"
potions, on the contrary, will be quaffed over and over again.

Therefore, the good effects will occur much more often, so the longer
duration of the bad effects is void.

--
Boudewijn Waijers (kroisos at home.nl).

The garden of happiness is surrounded by a wall so low only children
can look over it. - "the Orphanage of Hits", former Dutch radio show.

 

[seraphim]

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"Boudewijn Waijers" <kroisos@REMOVETHISWORD.home.nl> wrote in news:d0ljhs
$5c6$1@news3.zwoll1.ov.home.nl:

> Chris wrote:
>
>> Had a flash of insite.
>
> "Insight".
>
>> When wearing a ring of slow digestion, I think that it would make
>> sense for the affects of potions to last longer. After all, you are
>> "digesting" said potion. As this would make "bad" potions as well as
>> "good" potions longer lasting, I dont think it wouldn't really
>> unbalance anything.
>
> Actually, it would.
>
> After all, you will drink a "bad" potion only once, if at all. "Good"
> potions, on the contrary, will be quaffed over and over again.
>
> Therefore, the good effects will occur much more often, so the longer
> duration of the bad effects is void.

How many "good" potions can you think if that have time limits on them? I
can only think of a few, and some of those could be very annoying if they
had really long timeouts. I wouldn't want to be stuck levitating for 3000
turns or invisible when I wanted to go into a shop.

 

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Seraphim wrote:
> "Boudewijn Waijers" wrote:
>> Chris wrote:

>>> When wearing a ring of slow digestion, I think that it would make
>>> sense for the affects of potions to last longer. As this would
>>> make "bad" potions as well as "good" potions longer lasting, I
>>> dont think it wouldn't really unbalance anything.

>> Actually, it would.

>> After all, you will drink a "bad" potion only once, if at all. "Good"
>> potions, on the contrary, will be quaffed over and over again.

>> Therefore, the good effects will occur much more often, so the longer
>> duration of the bad effects is void.

> How many "good" potions can you think if that have time limits on
> them? I can only think of a few, and some of those could be very
> annoying if they had really long timeouts. I wouldn't want to be
> stuck levitating for 3000 turns or invisible when I wanted to go into
> a shop.

Well, then you could always take off the ring, couldn't you?

Hence, the potion would work longer while you were wearing the ring, and
if, for some reason, you don't want it to last longer, you could just
take off the ring for a while.

Sure, your food consumption would also be a bit faster, then, but since
your standard food consumption in NetHack is tailored to *not* having a
ring of slow digestion, this should hardly pose any problem, as well.

--
Boudewijn Waijers (kroisos at home.nl).

The garden of happiness is surrounded by a wall so low only children
can look over it. - "the Orphanage of Hits", former Dutch radio show.

 

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Richard Bos wrote:

>> When wearing a ring of slow digestion, I think that it would make
>> sense for the affects of potions to last longer. After all, you are
>> "digesting" said potion.
>
> You're not, really. The point of the active ingredients in most
> potions is _not_ to be digested, but to pass through your alimentary
> canal and into your bloodstream intact. This is unlike, say, bread,
> which starts being digested right in your mouth (amylase in your
> saliva) and is absorbed in broken-down form.

It might make more sense to delay the onset of the potion for a few turns
but then have it act as normal although some potions such as acid (or holy
water if undead) should still have immediate effect.

 

[seraphim]

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"Boudewijn Waijers" <kroisos@REMOVETHISWORD.home.nl> wrote in
news:d0mcif$mf8$1@news5.zwoll1.ov.home.nl:

> Seraphim wrote:
>
>> [Re: Slow digestion affecting potions]
>
> Well, then you could always take off the ring, couldn't you?

In a perfect world yes. But sometimes things get cursed.