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Whether really to carry on POL idea that ghosts could not see npc and other players.

And with what to begin in general?

stamina loss is not the reason why I want it.
Our shard has a complex crafting system... an items properties depend on a lot of variables... e.g. an armors weight would depend on the material used (composites? spoils? Additional strengthenings or leather bonds?) as well as the method, diligency and skill it was smithed with. Not to even start speaking about enchantments... you'll hardly ever find two pieces being exactly the same.
As such, logically, also the weight could be anything from ultra-light to ultra-heavy, but currently there is no way to reflect that. I can only simply and utterly ignore the influence these factors have on item weight, because defining a new objtype for each single possible weight-outcome would be totaly insane.

And yes, I've even been thinking to make a "weight-object" for each possible weight from 0.1 to 50.0 or whatever, which is then turned into the item as such - sword, armor, frying pan whatever... but seriously, this can't be the solution either.
I'm about to go the middle way, limit each item crafted to 5 possible 'weight classes' that the item crafted will fall into, but that's pretty crude... and a decent overhead already.

Anyway... that's off-topic and not an issue we'll solve here.

Hi-jacked thread

I assumed stamina loss was the reason for wanting weighted items. Is there another reason for having a weight prop?

Anyway, if you just store it on the item and do your own stamina loss that looks for the weight on the item instead of out of a config file.....

Okay...

Now you have me interested. Does weight have any in-game effect, other than a property a player can read from the item? Or is it just a "flavor" kind of thing?