[CF-Devel] Bows and shields

[Mark Wedel]

Peter Mardahl wrote:
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      "I'm gonna zap you with a magic lightning bolt!  Oh yeah, and me, a
     
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      human being, is 100x tougher than that other human being over there,
     
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      because I'm level 20 and he's level 1!  Oh, look at that dragon over there
     
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      breathing fire!"
     
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 I don't know how many people use it, but the CASTING_TIME time in config.h

 In that case, spell casting was like you described a bow.  Wait a few seconds
to cast that spell.

 The simple fact is that crossfire is a fast paced game.  If the game was slower
paced, then I could see additional realism in terms of equipping approriate
items and what not.

 But if I'm running arround killing stuff, I don't want to have to unequip the
shield, equip bow, fire some more, etc.

 One thing that may make bows more useful is something like a 'quiver of
unlimited arrows'.  It would always create normal arrows on demand (when
equipped).  This should be a fairly costly item (couple hundred pp?), but would
at least prevent the issue of having to haul around hundreds of arrows.  Arrows
it creates could have 0 value, so you can't sell them.