[CF List] race, profession, guild & titles

[Chachkoff Yann]

Le Samedi 14 Juillet 2001 18:21, vous avez écrit :

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      Chachkoff Yann wrote:
     
     
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      > Maybe implementing a list containing all the titles a character owns is a
     
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      > good idea, and quite easy to do, so you can have a character like this:
     
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       While there is only one 'title' string, there is nothing preventing the
     
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      use of a very long string, which effectively amounts to multiple titles. 
     
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      It would probably make sense to make the title a string pointer instead
     
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      something of static length, but thats a pretty easy change.
     
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       I don't see the need for a list - if you really need to extract something
     
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      from it, you can use strstr or the like.  But for most actual events, the
     
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      inventory checker and invisible marker objects should probably be what is
     
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      used. Optionally, msg values or the like in these marker objects could be
     
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      used to generate a title.  Note that title is a player only feature
     
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      (monsters do not have titles), which may be one reason that using the
     
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      marker objects could be better.
     
     
When I used the term "list", I was quite vague about the way to implement it. 
It could of course be done in an easier way than a linked list or something 
like that. 

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      > Gros the bug keeper, Knight of Scorn, Apprentice of Occidental Mages
     
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      > where "bug keeper" is just a nickname given by the player with no
     
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      > practical use, and the others are titles useful in the game. Then the
     
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      > player commands should be modified to something like:
     
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      > nickname [name] : gives your player the nickname specified (the current
     
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      > title command);
     
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      > titles : display all your titles in the client log window.
     
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       Is there a big reason for nicknames within the game?  Its not a hard
     
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      feature to support (since it already exists), I just wonder how much people
     
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      care about it or would look at them.
     
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     It is a feature most players like to play with. It may just be a little 
useless toy, but since most people like it and because it does not require 
lots of resources, I suppose letting it would not harm. It also solves the 
debate : I want it / Remove it; so we can still have the nickname system for 
those that find it fun to use alongside with a complex title system used for 
guild entries, quests, etc.

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       Presumably, when people still talk/shout, it will just use the base name
     
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      (Gros), and not the title information.  Otherwise, at higher levels, the
     
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      titles would be longer than the message itself, which could prove pretty
     
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      annoying.
     
     Of course, it is obvious. That's why I suggested a "title" command, so they 
are not displayed unless you really want to know what they are (much like the 
list of known spells).

Chachkoff Y.