[CF-Devel] throw cmd, ready a range attack, bow and rod

[Mark Wedel]

Michael Toennies wrote:
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      Yes, but you run in the same problems of other cmds where you can
     
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      give names. for unidentified potions for example you can't specify which,
     
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      when i remember it right and the server gets one random or all (that was the
     
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      point why tags
     
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      are in game, i think?).
     
     
 Your right on that.  I hadn't thought about that - there are probably many
client->server commands where that is the case.

 It probably wouldn't be hard to change the behaviour on the server such that if
the item name is numeric, treat it as a tag and find the right item.

 Note that many of the commands take names instead of tags because the player
could type that name by hand.




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      Which the throwing system i describe we can add this to mjoellnir. You apply
     
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      it normal as
     
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      weapon and use it in the same way. But you can also throw it. Make it in the
     
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      way, that you
     
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      add a invisible counter to it and remove his stats from your attack values.
     
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      Then duplicate it
     
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      and send this duplicate as thrown object which has a resolve timer as the
     
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      inv. timer of your original
     
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      object. Now, for the player, the hammer vanish from your hand, flying
     
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      around, and when it resolve,
     
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      it comes back to your hand.
     
     
 Yeah, I guess that will work.  You do have a problem in that the original can
not re-appear in the players inventory until the thrown one disappears.  This
effectively limits the range or the rate of throw.  which may not be terrible,
but may be tricky to balance so that this is still a useful weapon.