[CF-Devel] starving in my bed...

[Andreas Vogl]

On Tue 21.11.00, Mark W. wrote:

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      > [...] the issue of the guy who leaves his char logged in, and
     
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      > his char dies 100x from starvation before he comes back.
     
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      Going back to a sort of old message:
     
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      With the return to last savebed upon death patch, the one thing
     
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      I could perhaps think would be something:
     
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      If the character is about to die, and is standing on their
     
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      'home' savebed, just save them off and drop the connection to
     
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      the client (unfortunately, about to die could be hard to determine,
     
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      but perhaps an easier thing would be if the character dies of
     
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      starvation on their home savebed, give them 100 food, save
     
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      them off, and drop the connection).
     
     
Yeah, the latter is a formidable idea! And easy to code as well.

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      The 100 food is sort of a bonus, but really not a big deal.
     
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      I mainly include it so the character has enough time to go out
     
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      and buy/find some food before they die again.  Presuming that all
     
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      savebeds are in towns were one can find food, that should be enough.
     
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      When I say 100 food, I mean give them 100 food points to their
     
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      character, and not actually any food items in their inventory.
     
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      So you really can't abuse it, and if you are actually that desperate
     
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      (getting 100 food points makes a difference), you are probably in
     
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      pretty poor shape anyways.
     
     
No way to abuse this. You can´t get more than 100 food, as soon
as you leave the savebed you need sth to eat again.

I think this is gonna be a cool feature so I´ll do it.
If someone has any objections please state them now. =)


Andreas V.