[CF-Devel] Fun feature to do, maybe difficult...

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Nicolas Weeger wrote:

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      It's true we more often see maps hard for wizards but easier for 
     
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      warriors... As far as i know you can kill any monster with physical 
     
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      attacks, but some are pretty hard to kill with magic...
     
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      Maybe forbidding the use of attack cone/heal spell is indeed too nasty...
     
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      On the other hand I'm pretty sure we could do nice maps if town portal & 
     
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      word of recall could be disabled. Imagine that, you enter a long quest, 
     
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      and can't exit it until you complete it totally.... Yes it'd be nasty, 
     
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      but as the game is, any time you are in danger you can either word of 
     
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      recall or town portal out of harm's way. Also you can stop quests when 
     
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      you want... now a map you couldn't exit, that'd be a real challenge, no?
     
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  Perhaps.  OTOH, there are lots of ways to make maps hard.  The more difficult 
thing is to make them harder but still playable.

  A long map which you had no way to get back to down probably won't get played 
that much.  I'd probably never play such a map - I wouldn't want to get stuck 
playing such a map.  And even then, it is basically impossible to do as you say 
- if you die, you'd get out of that map (although, a more costly mechanism). 
But other case would be just kill the client and return tomorrow - map will have 
been reset, so you'd get put back at your home location.

  The word of recall has a time factor, so isn't an instant way to safe your 
life.  At one arguement, which is probably quite true, is that if you have time 
enough to react to do something like word of recall or town portal, why not just 
drink that potion of healing?

  Probably a more interesting way to make difficult maps is set a zero reset 
time for them (As well as swap out time).  No more beating down that big tough 
monster, exiting back up to heal some, going down and do so again - map would 
reset, so monster would always be at full strength when you fight it.



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