Transportation objects (Was: Re: [CF-Devel] Future crossfire changes/projects)

[Philipp Currlin]

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      I don't see *that* much a problem with abuses. For example, if we allowed
     
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      boats to cross water, the player might be able to reach places impossible
     
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      to reach before; however, if we wanted to *prevent* that, we can simply
     
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      add rough waters or deep waters that the player cannot cross safely (or
     
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      cannot cross at all). Ditto with flying objects, such as riding dragons,
     
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      we can have very high mountains with strong winds that prevent the player
     
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      from crossing them.
     
     
I could think of adding either a completely new floor-tile here, or modifying 
the existing ones to something like:
allow_horses 1
allow_dragons 1
or similar on water:
allow_boat 1

Then it would be up to the mapmaker if transports were allowed. And we 
wouldn't have to modify the maps. Then players could "carry" their transports 
around but wouldn't be able to use them unless that was allowed on the 
particular map/tile.
Especially on a new world map with much larger dimensions I think 
transports would be really nice.


Phil