[CF-Devel] Re: Suggestions

[Todd Mitchell]

I do like the idea of different starting locations, especially since this
will somewhat offset the aformentioned problem of having the maps used up so
quickly.  Having three or four starting towns and loosly arraying the maps
in expanding zones of greater difficulty around them would be very useful in
my opinion.  Adding in wilderness encounters would also spice this up.
There are always ships and caravans to traverse the wild safely for a price.
Having players from different 'home towns' could be further leveraged by
creating citizen papers and adjusting the costs of good and services higher
when players visiting other locals (perhaps using some modification of the
charisma/barter mechanics) of course you could always purchase citizen
papers for other locals....  and some cities would have unique
services...Players could possibly have their citizenship revoked by a city
for crimes...
Of course you would need more maps, especially of the Scorn nobility type.
Laying the ground work for this would be good to do in conjunction with the
world maps changes that are being done.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Wedel" <
     
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Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 3:21 AM
Subject: [CF-Devel] Re: Suggestions


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        this was sent to me, thought I'd send the reply to the list since it
     
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      Chris TheMan wrote:
     
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      > He has told me that your organization accepts suggestions on
     
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      > possible improvements.  I realize this may be premature of me,
     
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      > but from how I understand the nature of this game to be, I
     
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      > thought I might suggest a couple of mechanics that you
     
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      > I think this might already exist, but what about allowing for
     
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      > contractual elements that would form players into "adventuring
     
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      > companies" who would share the spoils of their conquest
     
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      > depend on the combat power contributed to the group.  This, I
     
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        There is the ability to form groups which share experience.  I suppose
     
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        The sharing of loots (treasure) is much more difficult.  Cost on many
     
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        My personal thought is that the players can make whatever agreements on
     
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      decide to pick up.  It seems reasonable that that could be a more 'social'
     
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      enforcement.  Eg, the party agrees the treasure is split evenly, and if
     
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      revenge or to get the money out or whatever else.
     
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      > Another would be to have a sociological context, with elements
     
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      > under the computer's control.  What if someone was elected as
     
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        I think things have been slowly going in this direction.  You could
     
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      add any number of elective offices.  They are only really interesting if
     
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      offices have some powers, and those powers should still exist even if the
     
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      is not actively playing.  Some simple things could be the mayor
     
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      allowing/prohibiting spellcasting within the town, maybe having tax rates,
     
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      fees, etc.
     
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        However, I think if any of that is done, it should not be done in scorn.
     
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      Perhaps navar city or santo dominion or whatever, but new
     
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      should come into a place that is reasonably consistent.
     
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        Of course, there is always the interesting idea of different starting
     
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      locations.  This could actually be synthesized pretty easily right now -
     
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      class changers could teleport the player to another map that then has
     
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      choices.  OTOH, as said, I'd much rather change the character creation
     
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      to get rid of the hall of selection thing.
     
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