[CF-Devel] town portal (RE: CVS commit: maps/city/misc)

[Tim Rightnour]

On 25-Feb-02 David Hurst wrote:
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      I agree with you, WoR, Restore, Holy Word, Bomb and Town Portal are really
     
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      the
     
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      only spells the 
     
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      average player uses unless in a specific situation that there is clearly a
     
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      better solution 
     
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      (dragons.. )
     
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      I don't like the idea that all the other hundreds of spells aren't useful
     
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      perhaps more thought 
     
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      could be put into a way of fixing this problem, certainly what AV suggests is
     
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      a
     
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      step in the right 
     
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      direction.
     
     
On our mud, we had the problem that portals became abused, much like they seem
to be becoming here.  We had a unique solution.

We called it the void.  When you stepped into the portal, there was a
percentage change (like 5) that you would get dumped into the void.  The void,
was a no-magic, silent room (cant shout or speak).  In there lived a
particularly nasty creature, who was horribly aggressive, and incredibly
dangerous to even top-level players.

What this caused, was that players used portals more gingerly.  Only when they
absolutely needed to.  They didn't use them willy-nilly, knowing that a very
bad thing could happen if they did hit the void.

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