[CF-Devel] Old Age

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      We did this on my mud.  Basically elves were birthed at 200 years, humans
     
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      17.  They aged at the same rate.  Age affected the speed of your mana/hp
     
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      recovery.  For humans, it ramped up quickly to about 35-45.. where you
     
     were at
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      max recovery.  After that, it started getting worse, and at around 85 you
     
     would
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      experience random heart attacks.  Elves on the other hand just slowly got
     
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      better, but even at about 1200 years, it was never as good as the humans
     
     at age
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      35.  We allowed you to buy age up or down with exp.  I think we also made
     
     the
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      haste spell age you, like in AD&D.  Other monsters had wither attacks,
     
     which
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      caused rapid aging, and you had to defeat them before you got too old.
     
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      It's fairly trivial to implement.. and one of the reasons I implemented a
     
     time
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      system.
     
     
thought you'd like that one...I hadn't thought of an wither attack though-
that's very good...


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