[CF List] race, profession, guild & titles (Getting tired)

[Chachkoff Yann]

Le Vendredi 20 Juillet 2001 18:38, vous avez écrit :
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      On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Chachkoff Yann wrote:
     
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      > It is a feature most players like to play with. It may just be a little
     
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      > useless toy, but since most people like it and because it does not
     
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      > require lots of resources, I suppose letting it would not harm. It also
     
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      > solves the debate : I want it / Remove it; so we can still have the
     
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      > nickname system for those that find it fun to use alongside with a
     
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      > complex title system used for guild entries, quests, etc.
     
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       Makes sense.  Presumably, you will want to make it clear what is the
     
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      title the character has chosen, and what titles the character has earned.
     
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      So if you get the title of 'retriever of the kings crown' for some
     
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      quest, and a player decides to 'title' himself with that, it would
     
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      be clear what title is really his and what is effectively a
     
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      nickname.
     
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      > Of course, it is obvious. That's why I suggested a "title" command, so
     
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      > they are not displayed unless you really want to know what they are (much
     
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      > like the list of known spells).
     
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       Otherwise, other than cosmetic/fun, do multiple titles have any real
     
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      efect? I suppose you could have checkers check the characters title, but
     
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      presuming they got the title from some source, just as easy to add
     
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      an invisible object that contains the title as well as key for the
     
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      inventory checker.
     
     That I do well understand. But there was a discussion here about adding 
titles and using them in the game rules. Now you are saying that maybe it is 
not an interesting stuff ? I'm quite puzzled by this. 

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       All in all, this is probably not a hard thing to do, and probably no
     
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      big reason not to do it.  OTOH, if this is a feature most people
     
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      don't care about or look at, there is then the question if it worth doing
     
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      at all.
     
     *sigh*
Just only two points:
- Titles and nicknames are quite important (to a certain point of course) for 
many players (Again, I've not seen the question "what players do think about 
it" put a lot here) do like the title stuff and use it, and would be happy to 
see it extended in a way or another. So it is certainly worth doing it.
- It may be easy to do, and there may be no good reason not to do it. Then 
why no coder already made a model and published as a patch here so anyone can 
test it ? Should I or Mich. Toennies go again alone to see it included one 
day ? Where are all the coders gone ? I admit some discussion is a neccessity 
to get a good consensus, but there must be a time to take the final decision 
and go one step further ! If it takes two weeks for a thing as simple as the 
player title, how long could it take to decide what to do with more important 
things like new object structure or multiheaded server ?
I'm sorry if all this sounds quite "rude", but I and others are becoming 
upset by seeing how things are getting in Crossfire - should we move to 
another project maybe less advanced but with more good will to do productive 
things ?

Chachkoff Y.
(I think I'll get *lots* of friends with this...)