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== Quests which ask for a random item to be collected ==

wanted:

* ask player to collect item randomly chosen from a list

* remember the item asked for

* be able to check if player has it

* be able to drop it from player

Additional:

Be able to do the above but for a quantity of items instead. Possibly, but no quest uses it yet, have a different quantity depended on what item asked for.

Plan:

* Possible names and the matching amounts to pick from are all passed to the action which picks and stores

* Idea 1 is to store itemname=amount in substrings of quest slot e.g. collecting;wood=10;113795759595 or in whole slot like nihonto=1

:* Then the checking if equipped conditions and Drop Actions only need to know the questslot name and index to get item name and amount

:* This would mean the equipped conditions and drop actions could be used also for other quests where a single item and amount was stored in this way

* Idea 2 is not to store the amount, but just the item, and pass the equipped condition and drop actions the full map of items to amounts each time. it felt wasteful but...

* Idea 3 is not to allow that amounts vary within the same quest and therefore just have the quest itself tell each time as a separate parameter (this got to be a lot of parameters though)

===Current quests with a randomly selected item to collect:===

====mithril cloak quest 'initial steps'====

requires 1 from a list 3 items

currently stored like

machine;itemname

Already Ok with Idea 1 as I default to amount 1 if I can't split the quest slot on =

====obsidian knife quest====

requires 100 of 3 items

currently stored with itemname only in quest slot

Not ok Idea 1, only Idea 2

====daily item quest====

requires 1 of a huge list of items

currently stored with itemname in slot like

itemname;timestamp;number of times completed

Already Ok with Idea 1 as I default to amount 1 if I can't split the quest slot on =

====weekly item quest====

as for daily item quest

==== ultimate collector ====

not live in game yet, don't worry about this one. we can fit it to what we choose.

===Current quests which store what to collect in the slot but didn't have a random element:===

There's the long lists of items quests

(ElvishArmor, WeaponsCollector ..) but they already have ok logic

There's the lists of items with quantities too quests,

(CrownForWannabeKing, HerbsForCarmen) again they just got logic done recently, they're fine.

Hmmm.. any others?

* Finish Ultimate Collector quest

* Work on [[StendhalOrb]]