[CF-Devel] new cut 1.4.0 and realestate idea

[Mark Wedel]

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      On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 21:15:40 -0700, Mark Wedel wrote:
     
     
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      On a slightly related note, this idea cropped up in conversation.  It's not
     
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      my idea, but here it is anyway.
     
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      A unique keyed exit.  Similar to the per-player unique maps, but instead,
     
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      per keyed object unique maps.
     
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      In practice, this would work by:
     
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      If the player has no key, the go to the "guild store" map.  In the guild
     
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      store map, they buy a key.  Then they leave the guild store, and re-enter
     
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      the same exit.  This takes them to their new guild.  In the guild, they can
     
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      buy extra keys to this map, and if they give one of these keys to someone
     
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      else, they can enter the same map.
     
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      It may be too complex. But it would resolve the running out of real-estate
     
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      issue which currently afflicts the guilds, and which would affect any other
     
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      player castle idea.
     
     
  I'm taking it that this means there could be many 'different' guilds linked 
off the same exit.  Eg, a player does that above, but a new player decides he 
doesn't like the people in that guild, so goes to the shop and buys the guild 
key, and now a second guild is at the same location.

  One obvious question is - what do you do if a player has multiple keys that 
apply for that exit?

  On a more basic principle, the idea of per player unique maps is a bit odd - 
its necessary for convenience sake, but doesn't make a lot of realistic sense.

  Its unclear how many guilds/buildings there really should be.  If you look at 
the maps-bigworld, running out of real estate should presumably not be much an 
issue - that world is a lot bigger - while I suppose it could become congested, 
I think the main cause of that would be the same player buying up all sorts of 
buildings - something to prevent that from happening might be more in order.