[CF-Devel] seperating skills (was RE: brief introduction)

[Tim Rightnour]

On 29-Sep-01 Mark Wedel wrote:
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       A lot depends on how complicated you want to make it.  While the three
     
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      weapon
     
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      skills (bludgeon, slash, poke) could make for attack types, it may not follow
     
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      really well for actual weapons.  You could easily have something like a top
     
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      level physical category, then the bludgeon/slash/poke subcategories, and then
     
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      more specific weapons below that.
     
     
Well.. off the top of my head.. I had planned something like this:
Slash:
        Sword-like
        Axe-like
Pierce:
        dagger-like (think stiletto)
Stab:
        spear-like
        knife-like
Slice:
        katana-like
        rapier-like
Whip:
        whip-like (we don't actually have any yet though.. eh?)
Bludgeon:
        Club-like
        staff-like
Crush:
        hammer-like
        mace-like
        flail-like
Combo:  (I stole this from you, I really like this)
        polearms, halbards, etc.  The idea here would be to have different
        kinds, like in DND, so one might be slash/pierce, and you would have to
        know both to wield it.  Like you said, the best damage type would win.
Wierd:
        saws and magnifying glasses.  ;)  Probably nonsensical to have a skill
        for those.

Anyhow.. the idea here, is that you have the different dammage-message and
attack types, which would be the first column (slash, stab, pierce).  The
second column would be the actual skills, each one signifying a different
fighting style.  (using a club is nothing like using a quarterstaff, at least,
effectively)  Monsters would be immune or vulnerable to the damage-types, not
the weapon-skills.

The problem with doing these as attacktypes.. which I originally had planned
on, is that we are running out of room in that bitmask.  Unless we want to make
the leap and make it a 64bit int, I'm not sure what we can do about that.

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       IMO, the most flexible way to deal with this is for one skill to have
     
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      pointers
     
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      to related skills that exp funnels into.  Then really you can have as many
     
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      skills that have experience categories as you want.
     
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       I personally would like to see more skills potentially available, but also
     
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      easier to learn those skills.  In my playing experience, it can take a very
     
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      long
     
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      time to find a skill scroll of some specific skill you are interested in.  I
     
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      think having many skills fairly readily available (easier to learn skills
     
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      perhaps via guilds, and also make them cheaper), but the power of them more
     
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      independent of other skills you may know would make things more interesting.
     
     
Perhaps there is a better way of doing this.  Simply making every skill
available in scroll form right off the bat seems too easy.  Perhaps just upping
the chances of it showing up in a shop would be enough.  Maybe guilds really is
the way of doing it.  Join a guild of fighters and learn some attack types. 
Perhaps the payment could be non-monetary, and level based, for a level 10
player, it might be, "bring me the head of an orc and I'll teach you swords". 
Just a random thought.

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