[CF-Devel] Re: [CF-Devel] Features suggestions: 'mail' box & blackboard

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Le Lundi 11 Août 2003 13:39, Sebastian Andersson a écrit :
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      On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 10:22:32AM +0200, tchize wrote:
     
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      > What happens if a player decide to disconnect after locking worthless
     
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      > items while other player has put an excalibur for trade?
     
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      > And what if they don't agree and a player refuse to pull again first
     
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      > lever to take back items?
     
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      They pull the first level again and take the items back?
     
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      The design is quite simple:
     
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Submitting a working map should be even more simple :)


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            P1  L1 / T1|T2 \ L2 P2
     
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                L3 | D2|D1 | L4
     
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      -, | & + = walls. \ and / are doors.
     
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      Player 1 (P1)  puts the objects at T1, then pulls L1 which closes his
     
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      door.
     
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      Player 2 (P2) puts the objects at T2, then pulls L2 which closes her
     
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      door.
     
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      They both inspect the items. If they like them, they pull L3 & L4
     
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      which transfers the objects to D2 and D1.
     
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      When T1 & T2 is empty, the levers are reset and the doors open.
     
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      If they don't agree, they pull L1 or L2 and their door opens (unless
     
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      a transfer is in progress already), L3 & L4 is reset.
     
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      I think raffles 2 has something like this, but only for "safe" one way
     
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      teleportation, but its design can probably be extended.
     
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      _BUT_ I think that one should think about how this affects the game
     
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      play first though. Not every cool feature is good for the games
     
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      feeling, there are always consequences.
     
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      It is often said that CF is a RPG game, but player to player interaction
     
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      is quite limited and one's interaction with NPCs is mostly carried out
     
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      with a weapon in hand. Not much roleplaying going on. I don't think
     
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      this change would enhance roleplaying, quite the opposite if it were
     
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      added to the client and I'm not thrilled about a map implementaiton
     
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      either. In RL(tm), there is no such thing as a safe trade nor should
     
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      there be one in a virtual world IMO. It just reduces the immersion to
     
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      the point of making you think you're accessing a SQL server. The best
     
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      one can do is to have a trusted third party that helps you (ie find
     
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      another player you both trust), you can pay half in advance and half
     
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      afterwards or you'll have to take your chances (perhaps allow the
     
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      other player to PK you if you try to fool them).
     
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      And what's the problem really? If someone wants to take advantage of
     
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      you, don't deal with them anymore. Tell others about them.
     
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      Its not like it is the end of the game if someone fooled you of your
     
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      shimmering turban or that chaos sword. If you managed to get it once,
     
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      it is probably easier to get it the next time.
     
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      /Sebastian
     
     
Yeah i agree, this perhaps is better Role playing if you can fool other player 
and steal them (well in fact the steal capacity is better combined with 
improved invisibility)


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