This has been requested on at least two occasions, so I figure there's a market for this. Description: Via the Game Portal dialogue, you may elect to give your party the default starting gear. Following that, you can auto-equip your party, to save you some tedious clicking. Notes: The equipment handed out is the same as in vanilla ToEE (according to each PC's class, of course). No gold is substracted in the process. That is slightly cheating, I suppose, but I don't think it's such a big deal. You may only create the starting gear once, of course. Re the auto-equip - be aware that this utilizes the game's function "item_wield_best_all()", which favors ranged weapons, and may yield unpredictable item selection if you've also bought some items from the chest. In other words, you should probably go over your party's inventory and make sure you are satisfied with the wielded equipment.
This is neat, but somehow I get the feeling that it would be better attached to something other than the portal. Maybe we could have an auto-equip room or chest or something like that, with the area description box expanded to explain it so that it's not easter-eggy.
I thought about adding in a chest of default items at first, but it seemed cumbersome to me. I suppose one possibility is to add such a box, but instead of filling it with items, it'd have a "Standard Adventure Item Pack" object, which, when picked up, would give you the items. Or better yet, open up a dialogue which also contains the auto-equip functionality. Is that better/acceptable? If so, I can implement that. I'd appreciate if the inventory icon for the pack were provided for me, since that's not quite my forte.
Dialog sounds best to me. It would just be another NPC chest like the others (click-dialog). Maybe it could go right in the vestibule near the portal so you wouldn't have to run around much. If you provide the dlg/scr files, I'll throw in the chest itself and update the area description.
What is the standard equiptment. Its been a while since I played vanilla, but I seem to remember everyone had just a wooden club and cloth armor. But maybe that was Icewind Dale or something else.
Here it is - scr & dlg file for a "standard equipment chest". Tested by replacing the clothing chest, seems to work fine. (the attached files don't replace it, of course; it uses up script/dlg ID# 407).
Looks good. :thumbsup: 407 is already one of the description boxes, so we'll need to switch it to ... 400. A list identifying all the dlg and scr numbers would be useful, wouldn't it?
