[CF List] Levels, exp and stats (tewaking the mobs in common)

[Luke]

Hello y'all,
i just wanna report a werid observation me and my friends made :

We're playing crossfire since some years (remember the server crashing 
all 15 mins..jep that was the time we had begun to play that great 
game...).

In the end all of us got better and made it to the maxlev after some 
days of immediate playing and the game has begun to bore us beside the 
fact that there are many quests, things and maps to explore in CF 
too...so we decided to tweak the stats of our mobs (cause the most part 
of the game is hack'n slay in a clever way):

We had a lot of fun in tweaking all the stats * 3.(better said 
ATTRIBUTES like STR,DEX,INT...) The mobs became really hard again at all 
levels and the exp flew in tons...in other words the game made fun again 
,but after a while we discovered strange phenomena (like soft walls 
couldnt be opened after they have been scratched one time..and so on) 
and sometimes the game crashes too...

So we took out gdb, recompiled the 1.0 version with it and looked what 
happened when the server crashes.

After that we really wondered why the server worked that long time 
without crashing at all :P

The reason was , like you surly can imagine, that lots of stat-lookups 
and stat-computings have just been desiged to use a (too) short ranged 
table (capable to manage all stats from 1 to 30 i think).DEX made the 
most problems (game crashed sometimes when giants threw boulder and so 
on...)
I can understand that this has been made to reduce the computing time 
but now its nearly impossible to raise the mobstats above 30. It would 
need to make bigger tables or rewrite a lot of the code...

However i just wanted to report that.
It would be great if you could change that in the future when you're on 
rewriting maybe that special parts of code.

It was relly cool how to be very vulnerable at level 45, fighting 
against all mobs with really good eq. You could kill all of them but 
they killed you very fast too (just fair for great heroes i think). 
Anyways we died often but had still more fun than before (cause on the 
one hand it was hard to kill a mob but on the other hand you got 3*exp 
for that work). Lets say we had more respect to all kinds of mobs....

If you know a possibility to make the mobs hitting harder, move faster 
and cast real mean and mighty without changing their stats , so please 
let me know :)

Thanks for reading.

Farewells
   Luke.