[CF-Devel] Okay here goes... my thoughts

[Andreas Vogl]

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      yup okay.. would love to see you ideas for race/caste... I played to death
     
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      a game called Realmz for mac (www.fantasoft.com), check it out if you can.
     
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      That is prob your best bet for races?
     
     
That´s a nice one. But Peter´s proposals about race/class are already
pretty good I believe...

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      are wraiths affected by holyword? if they are now undead I spose they
     
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      are? perhaps abit more warning on the effects of killing players with holy
     
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      word should be put up? I accidently killed a player called Fizban with it
     
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      once (sorry Fizzy) and I found you lose ALL your exp.
     
     
Haha, yes I remember... Too bad I didn´t see it. I´ve heard about that
afterwards. I found it so funny that Fizban, the most high level character
on voldsbooks these days (highscore #1) got killed "by accident". =)))
Of course I felt sorry for him too, but he didn´t take it seriously.

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      > > I admit I know where the WDSM is and i did have help in finding it and
     
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      > > think it would be easy to balance it out, just remove immune cold from
     
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      > > there (leave prot cold). I think without that the game is alittle
     
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      > Heh.  I don't know enough about the mapset yet to get WDSM.  I code more
     
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      > The pupland maps got changed recently to make WDSM lots harder to get,
     
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      > and to add startequip 1 to it, so that if you drop it, it's gone.
     
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      yeah red_blaze told me he had done it just needed to put it in.. he is
     
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      sour cause he worked out how to get WDSM and now we all have it =)
     
     
Hehehe! Damn, you got me :-P

No, honestly: I think everybody running around with the old-style WDSM
is not what crossfire was designed for.

But it´s a fact that I found an insane workaround to get it while
the quest was still broken and undoable. :-)
I had probably played too much these days... but man, did I enjoy it...
The trick was to fetch a chest with a summoning rune and open it
right on a certain place, to get summoned creatures press an
unreachable button behind the wall... Crazy huh?

However, with the new maps things should be quite well balanced I hope.
Besides I´m at fixing the numerous remaining bugs in pupland
and I´m trying to make it all neat and fun to play. I do that in
favour and support from the original pupland-authors, very nice guys
they are.

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      I like the drop/done thing... but I can see some problems with it...
     
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      accidents etc..
     
     
Of course, but I believe that can be avoided. And there is also this
inventory-lock function... In fact, the startequip thingie is just
the best way to do it right now, that I can think of.
I´d say better a few highlevels loosing it than a few newbies getting it.

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      perhaps just a thing like prepare weapon? once you wear
     
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      the armour it becomes yours hence no one else can wear it? maybe even if
     
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      you just pick it up?
     
     
That´d be cool. Anyone code it and I´ll put it in for sure. But it must
happen at picking up, that´s important. Trading shall be prevented.

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      I did the scorn quests! WHICH I LOOOOVE! I love getting titles.. everyone
     
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      on voldsboks loves them too... pity about random maps crashing all the
     
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      time ={.. do you realise this is happening? if not.. go onto voldsboks and
     
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      see for yourself.
     
     
Yes, my compliments for that quests too! I believe that the randommaps
are much better than most of these old-style hack´n´slash maps.
And they are new every day!!! The crashes are a little problem, but I hope
they´ll be fixed sooner or later.

about the baby dragons - not behaving "baby"-like:
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      mmm could we do something.. perhaps turn them into a completely different
     
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      breed of dragon? (hell dragon? emerald dragon (play around with palette))
     
     
Don´t ask me why, but I like the name "Emerald Dragon" for some reason...


Andreas V.