[CF-Devel] new savebed concept

[Andreas Vogl]

On Tue, 7.11.00, Erik G. wrote:
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      I think it would be great if you could chose your starting point
     
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      yourself; it would also be great with perm. appartments scattered
     
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      throughout the different maps. You see them on many maps, but they
     
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      are usually "closed". [...]
     
     
On Tue, 7.11.00, Michael T. wrote:
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      Now my idea is, to make "virtual" perm. appartments.
     
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      That mean, you start with a very small perm. appartment, [...]
     
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      Then, you can "buy" new appartments (buildings). [...]
     
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      You can do in this style a kind of "social" carrier, buy you in
     
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      from low city parts in the royal center for example. Its stuff for
     
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      nice new quest too. [...]
     
     
Those are very nice ideas and I´d love to see them realized.
Anyways, I´m very happy to read so much positive response. :-)

On Wed, 8.11.00, Mark W. wrote:
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      > In my opinion, the only reasonable way to go is have players wake
     
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      > up on the last-applied "bed of reality" (= savebed).
     
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      As an enhancement, perhaps have a flag or other setting on savebeds
     
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      which control if they update your 'home' position or not.
     
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      It may not be a big deal, but I would think there may be some cases
     
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      where you really don't want to update your home position, but you
     
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      want to save the game.
     
     
Sure, but all you need to do is type "save" and you´re settled.
I really can´t think of any use for savebeds that do not update the
"home position". Hence, I believe that half-working savebeds would
only confuse players.

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      Also, this would then suggest that when you do die, you would show up
     
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      in an inn.  I guess there is no harm in that, but seems like a bit of
     
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      an odd place.
     
     
For saving/respawning in RPGs I have never seen much else rather than
inns or churches. But feel free to put savebeds wherever you want, as long
as it´s a secure place in a city. =)


Andreas V.