[CF-Devel] Fw: Diamonds

[crossfire-devel-admin at archives.real-time.com]

One way I would posit this to work would be to get rid of  existing material
type field and have a new field for material type in the arch and a material
object type (more arches with modifiers for weight and value and other
stuff)  maybe even have aclass and subclass like metals --> gold, silver or
textiles --> cloth, silk.  The material type field in the arch would be able
to contain a number of possible materials that the item could be made of so
for example:

arch chainmail
...
material bronze copper iron silver gold mithril admantium
...

or

arch cloak
....
material hides cloth silk leather snakeskin
...

and the chainmail would be generated with one of these materials randomly
(weighted?) or could be subtyped on a map to be made of a specific material.
Not sure how you would have items with multiple materials though (primary
and secondary, material fields or a system of bitmasks or something?)
  This makes it easy to control things so you never get lead swords and you
don't have a long list of exceptions and special cases.  It makes it fairly
easy to add new materials.  It would also make it easy to do stuff like melt
down your gold sword to get coins or use the base material in formulas (like
you need x amount of gold but you can use nuggets or coins or whatever yo
ulike)

I can see this as being a real pain to implement however.


_______________________________________________
crossfire-devel mailing list
     
     crossfire-devel at lists.real-time.com
     
     
     https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/crossfire-devel