[CF-Devel] new stat generation system.

[Michael Toennies]

Iam in all ways a friend of points to destribute.
I all other cases, i simply try as long as i got good
points, because it makes a big difference when you
start with wisdom 10 or str 20.

So, giving the player points, and lets add him to stats is
a good way. Also, you can play more easily your favorite 
chars.


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       On irc discussion last night, there was some discussion about 
     
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      redoing the stat
     
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      generation method.
     
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       This mostly came about because peter was hacking the client so 
     
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      that it would
     
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      automatically re-roll stats until some desired value is reached.
     
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       Currently, the server enforces a total stats between 82 and 116.  It was
     
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      suggested that instead of rolling stats at all, just give the 
     
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      player the 116
     
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      total to distribute between the stats as desired (just as a note, 
     
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      if we do go
     
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      this way, I would probably make that stat total easily setable, 
     
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      so someone who
     
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      wants to make an easy server could make the total lower, while a 
     
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      hard server
     
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      could have a lower total).  The total probably needs to be lower 
     
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      in any case, as
     
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      if you can just set the values, it will be easier to min/max the 
     
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      stats - right
     
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      now, for example, it is difficult for a rolled stats to be much 
     
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      lower than 8. 
     
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      It appears the rolling method is 4d6, keep the best 3.
     
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       As thinking about this, the easy way would be for the server to 
     
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      tell the player
     
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      what the stat total is, enter amount for str, you have x points 
     
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      left, enter
     
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      total for int, etc.
     
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       But then I realized a better way would be for the client to 
     
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      handle all of this
     
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      - basically, the server would tell the client to choose stats, 
     
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      total is 130. 
     
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      Client presents whatever way it wants for the player to set those to the
     
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      different attributes, and when the player is done, the client 
     
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      sends back to
     
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      server the values for str, dex, con, etc.  Server verifies the 
     
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      values to make
     
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      sure they are proper, and then moves along to race selection.
     
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       Thoughts?  Its some amount of work, but overall, the amount of 
     
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      code may be
     
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      reduced in the server and client (code to roll the stats, swap, 
     
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      them, etc, is
     
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      handled on the server, but the client has to deal with the actual 
     
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      interaction
     
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      with the player.)
     
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