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

[dnh at hawthorn.csse.monash.edu.au]

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      From: "Andreas Vogl" <
      
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      Subject: RE: [CF-Devel] Okay here goes... my thoughts
     
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      Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 17:43:23 +0200
     
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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?
     
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      That´s a nice one. But Peter´s proposals about race/class are already
     
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      pretty good I believe...
     
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     yeah I know, I read the email. Well I am more pointing out an existing
version that works... I am not saying change to this, just take this in
mind =)
 
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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.
     
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      Haha, yes I remember... Too bad I didn´t see it. I´ve heard about that
     
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      afterwards. I found it so funny that Fizban, the most high level character
     
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      on voldsbooks these days (highscore #1) got killed "by accident". =)))
     
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      Of course I felt sorry for him too, but he didn´t take it seriously.
     
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     mmmhmmmm well, it was the last time I ever saw him on voldsboks... and
Rower is now no. 1 =)

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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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      silly,
     
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      > > Heh.  I don't know enough about the mapset yet to get WDSM.  I code more
     
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      > > > than I play.  (Therefore, I need people like you to help me with play
     
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      > > balance.)
     
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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 =)
     
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      Hehehe! Damn, you got me :-P
     
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      No, honestly: I think everybody running around with the old-style WDSM
     
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      is not what crossfire was designed for.
     
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     mhmmm... crossfire wasn't designed for lag either ;)

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      But it´s a fact that I found an insane workaround to get it while
     
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      the quest was still broken and undoable. :-)
     
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      I had probably played too much these days... but man, did I enjoy it...
     
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      The trick was to fetch a chest with a summoning rune and open it
     
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      right on a certain place, to get summoned creatures press an
     
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      unreachable button behind the wall... Crazy huh?
     
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      However, with the new maps things should be quite well balanced I hope.
     
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      Besides I´m at fixing the numerous remaining bugs in pupland
     
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      and I´m trying to make it all neat and fun to play. I do that in
     
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      favour and support from the original pupland-authors, very nice guys
     
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      they are.
     
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     mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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      > I like the drop/done thing... but I can see some problems with it...
     
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      > accidents etc..
     
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      Of course, but I believe that can be avoided. And there is also this
     
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      inventory-lock function... In fact, the startequip thingie is just
     
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      the best way to do it right now, that I can think of.
     
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      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?
     
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      That´d be cool. Anyone code it and I´ll put it in for sure. But it must
     
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      happen at picking up, that´s important. Trading shall be prevented.
     
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     yup... mmkay, jots down in little book

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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.
     
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      Yes, my compliments for that quests too! I believe that the randommaps
     
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      are much better than most of these old-style hack´n´slash maps.
     
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      And they are new every day!!! The crashes are a little problem, but I hope
     
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      they´ll be fixed sooner or later.
     
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      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))
     
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      Don´t ask me why, but I like the name "Emerald Dragon" for some reason...
     
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     yup, I reckon that is the most appropriate... would anyone mind too much
If I changed them to be green? of course maps like the 4 towers might seem
strange with greenish dragons in the fire part... but people can live with
that =) I love emerald dragon too, gimme da word etc

dnh (AKA ...)

ps, There are still quite a few dragons that haven't been done, ice/frost,
hell, brown (physical dragons), emerald (chemical usually), gold
(friendly). And there aren't any Drakes which are like dragons but dopy.
If people are having problems trying to think of new dragons/enemies give
me a bell.