[CF-Devel] Re: Suggestions

[Mark Wedel]

Tim Rightnour wrote:

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      On 01-Jul-02 Todd Mitchell wrote:
     
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     I do like the idea of different starting locations, especially since this
     
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     will somewhat offset the aformentioned problem of having the maps used up so
     
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     quickly.
     
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      I tried this on the mud.  2 things happened:
     
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      1) Players bitched because we didn't let them pick where they started.
     
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      2) We fixed it and everyone picked midgaard.
     
     

  My personal thought was that the player would pick what starting location they 
wanted.

  Thus, if from past play experience they new town XYZ had a mayor they liked, 
they could choose to start there.  Most people might choose scorn.


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      In the end, even with lots and lots of players.. everyone hangs out in the
     
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      center of midgaard to be social.  The fewer the players, the more pronounced
     
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      the effect.  IMHO, it was a monumental waste of time, because it took *forever*
     
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      to fix the maps up to be properly balanced for it to work, and then ~nobody
     
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      used it.
     
     

  That is probably a bigger issue.  As it is now, starting in navar city would 
be pointless - there are no low level (<5) dungeons about, so the character 
would have to go to scorn anyways.

  Adding low level dungeons to all the possible starting locations is certainly 
a lot of work.  In some longer term, it may not be a terrible thing that if (big 
if) we get to the point where there are lots of dungeons that they get spread 
around more - have some low level dungeons in the other towns.

  But probably more relevant is that unless the different towns are sufficiently 
different, there won't be much point to start in one vs the other.