[CF-Devel] A brief introduction, and some thoughts

[Andreas Vogl]

Mark W. and Tim R. wrote:

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      > My object classification was really starting at the top level, eg:
     
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      > monsters, players, items (everything that can be picked up),
     
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      > background/terrain, spells/effects/skills
     
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      > In terms of slash/bash/poke, if you really wanted added reality,
     
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      > you could actually make that different attack types - basically split
     
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      > phyiscal into those three areas.
     
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      [...] the right thing to do is to go into the monsters and
     
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      fix them up WRT the new attacktypes. [...]  It definately can be
     
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      done, and as it is worked more and more into the maps, [...]
     
     
Consider: Splitting physical attack would require a redo of
huge parts of the code, the maps AND the arches!

I have the feeling that this discussion is getting slightly out of
hand. So far I think the following main topics have been covered:

o Seperating skills into a tree-like structure

o Splitting physical attacktype into different subtypes

o Creating a guild system to use tree-like skills

o Reworking the karate-type skills to have new features.

o Redoing the object structure to have tree-like structure with
  type/subtype/subsubtype

I believe that each of the listed features would keep one person busy
full-time for more than a month (at minumum). Most of these topics have
been discussed several times in the past too.
Hence, I think we should focus on *one* of these points,
get a consens how to do it, and then write the code for it.

Otherwise we end up concluding that *everything* should be redone,
and that it is too much work, so it can't be done. ;)


Andreas V.