[CF-Devel] Future crossfire changes/projects

[Scott Barnes]

On 15 May 2001 23:55:21 -0700, Mark Wedel wrote:
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       Now that 1.0 is out, I'd like to get a little discussion/input on future
     
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      changes for crossfire (say 2.0).  I'm trying to keep these a bit more general in
     
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      nature and not go into details of exactly how feasible different options are (as
     
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      other changes may make some things easier or harder to do).  This is also to
     
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      make it aware to others possible projects they may want to take on.  I'm also
     
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      trying to limit to big and/or controversial projects.  Doing something like
     
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      adding a new spell isn't going to make this list.
     
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       If you followup, it is probably worth while to start a thread for each of the
     
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      proposed changes, so that conversation on each one is easier.  Using the brief
     
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      description in the Change line for subject is probably a good idea.
     
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      General template I'm using:
     
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      Proposed Change: Brief description of change
     
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      Details: More detail on the change and other notes
     
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      Pros & Cons: possible benefits
     
     
I was just thinking about this yesterday.  So here's my ideas:

Proposed Change:  Competition Maps
Details:  Add the ability to make NPCs remember things after map resets,
so that maps like a "race to the finish" map or "battle to the death"
map could be feasible.  Also, just a novelty idea here, a map could be
done that would be sortof a sumo wrestling tournament, players pay some
coins to enter the tournment, try to push each other out of a circle,
and the winner (the one that never got pushed out) gets all the coins
the players paid.  Just a thought :)
Pros:  Just think of the possiblities :)
Cons:  Might be difficult to do, players that are sore losers might get
bitter and kill the winners ;)

Proposed Change:  "Smart" NPC's
Details:  Sortof the same thing.  Make NPC's able to "remember" things
about the players.
Pros:  It would make it possible for whole new plots to evolve around
the players (ie, a player that steals and attacks townspeople, the
townspeople would "remember" and could tell other players that they're
bad, players could even become "villians" and "heros" of sorts :))
Cons:  Would most likely be EXTREMELY difficult to implement.

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