[CF List] levels & exp

[Mark Wedel]

Henric Karlsson wrote:

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      Well there is, if I remeber correctly a directory
     
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       maps/styles/monsterstyles/
     
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      Where it seems possible to define your own random levels (with respect to
     
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      monsters). So if a map has a special monster need it should probably be
     
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      possible to do even with random levels.
     
     
 Thats true - as long as you can change the current monsters, that works out
fine.


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      How about a few quick buttons, to which you could temporay assign a few
     
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      commonly used tiles for the current map. Like if you use stone floor tiles
     
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      and lava alot on a map.
     
     
 At least in the x11 editor, you could use the picks to do that - the picks were
just normal maps, so I would think it would be possible to take the objects you
will commonly use and make them into a picks type map (its just a flag which I
think changes the behaviour on how things work). 

Steven Lembark wrote:
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      Going overboard for a moment, what about a design document
     
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      w/ suggestions from the better maps. It could include comments
     
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      on why the maps seem good and what the designers did do make
     
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      them work.
     
     
 There isn't a defined document, but in the server directory, there is the
doc/Developers/mapguide which says a few things to do.

 Probably the biggest thing IMO that makes maps good are details/problem
solving/paying attention to clues given (eg, not just go in and kill everything
in sight). 

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      Might be worth [yet another] mailing list for dungeon designers
     
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      to discuss what they do and how. The archive of this list would
     
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      make a nice reference on how to do things properly and probably
     
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      give some good feedback to the map-designer-tool maintainers on
     
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      how to improve that also.
     
     
 There is a crossfire-maps mailing list at sourceforge.  Not used very much at
current time.  I think there is probably a large amount of cross subscriber
membership.