Believe it or not, this has been a major source of conversation amongst
wizards. I think the main reason why it has not been done is because we'd have
to ask each hit what hit location it's going to, then ask what kind of armour
is there. I have seen game systems (not MUDs tho) use a slot-based prot
system. It was needlessly convoluted, sacrificing gameplay for realism.

I'm not saying that it won't be done or that it can't be done. In fact, it
very certainly could be done. However, cramming even more code into the
already complex battlesystem -- especially after weapon speed -- must be done
only when the benefit outweighs the drawbacks.

Right now the "drawbacks" mostly apply to the effort to code and test without
crashing the game several times. It would also chew more CPU in combat. But
here is what I think would happen if such a tune was made:
-- clever player gets hit 1,000,000 times to calculate odds of each slot being
hit.
-- same clever player says "ahah, torso+arm+head+legs take up 90% of the
attacks"
- same clever player looks at eqset and decides to wear the hardest armours
possible in such locations.
-- Mithra^H^H^H^H^H^H same clever player routinely kills the monsters with the
hardest armours in those slots, insuring that only he has the best
stats/armour in the game.

True, we could di a simpler system, I thnnk HCBat does. But it needs to be
carefully balanced first. And we're not there yet.

Shinarae Lluminus