[CF-Devel] Fwd: Re: crossfire, pup_land map changes

[Andreas Vogl]

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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 14:13:40 +0900
From: KAWAMOTO Yosihisa <
     
     kawamoto at tenjin.org
     
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To: 
     
     andi.vogl at gmx.net
     
     
Subject: Re: crossfire, pup_land map changes

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      Hello.
     
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      I am KAWAMOTO Yoshihisa, one of the pupland creators.
     
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      I thank you and I am glad about your effort on the pupland.
     
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      I tell you that we have little time to play and maintain
     
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      the pupland and we have stopped a development of the pupland
     
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      for some years, so I think any developments by someone on
     
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      the pupland are free.  Please feel free to make changes.
     
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      But I would see your changes.  Please send me those.
     
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      > My name is Andreas Vogl, I´m from Muenich in germany. I´m a
     
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      > student, a fan of the multiplayer RPG "crossfire" and a
     
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      > member of the crossfire developers mailing list. My intention
     
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      > is to contact the creator(s) of a certain map-set of the
     
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      > crossfire game, called "pup_land".
     
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      > On one of these maps, I found the following (hopefully valid?)
     
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      > mail adresses of pupland creators:
     
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      Only my mail address is still vaild, and others expired by
     
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      their graduations.
     
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      kawamoto at ics.es.osaka-u.ac.jp
      
      
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      s-nisita at ics.es.osaka-u.ac.jp
      
      
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      k-yosida at ics.es.osaka-u.ac.jp
      
      
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      h-okuda at ics.es.osaka-u.ac.jp
      
      
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      > In case you really are one of the pupland creators:
     
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      > The pupland maps are great! I like them very much and I´ve
     
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      > played them over and over, all of them.
     
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      Thank you very much.
     
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      > However, as the development of crossfire proceeded, changes
     
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      > about the functionality of buttons have broken some essential
     
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      > quest mechanisms in pupland.
     
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      > Moreover, there are some very powerful artifacts to be found
     
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      > in pupland. A recent discussion on the cf-devel mailing list
     
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      > revealed that some developers would like to either tone them
     
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      > down or make them harder to get.
     
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      I agree.
     
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      In official maps, too powerful artifacts reduce
     
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      everyone's pleasure.
     
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      > I love the pupland quests and I want them to remain attractive
     
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      > and a lot of fun to play, as they used to be. Thus, I have
     
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      > created some changes to the pupland maps. They are not
     
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      > official yet, but I have announced them to the list. I would
     
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      > like to have the original creator(s) of pupland take a look
     
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      > at the new maps and either accept or reject them. If accepted,
     
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      > they would probably become part of the official crossfire
     
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      > distribution.
     
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      This is my honor.
     
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      > Please reply to my adress <
      
      andi.vogl at gmx.net
      
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      > you agree to take a look at the new maps. I would be very happy
     
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      > and sent you both the map files and an explanation of what I
     
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      > changed and why.
     
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      Please send me.
     
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      But my check may make me several days.
     
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      > BTW - I don´t know how many people were involved in the
     
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      > creation of pupland... Should I try to contact them all?
     
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      No, other guys were graduated, so contacting me
     
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      is enough.
     
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      Thank you.
     
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      -- 
     
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      iKAWAMOTO Yosihisa!                   
      
      kawamoto at es.osaka-u.ac.jp
      
      
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      kawamoto at jp.netbsd.org
      
      
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      kawamoto at tenjin.org
      
      
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