[CF-Devel] Suggestion for new skills

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      IMO, overall experience should primarily be a measurement
     
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      of "overall toughness".
     
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      In the game code, quite often questions come up like "should the player
     
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      survive this?", "should the player get hit by this, and how much?".
     
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      Sometimes you can decide such things based on a specific skill or
     
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      stat value, but in other cases you really need to have an
     
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      "overall measurement".
     
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      Take maximum health points for example. While it may be intuitive
     
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      to base this on a physical skill, it would be really unfair to
     
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      those wizard/priest classes to get no good health unless training
     
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      in a physical skill.
     
     
So hp depends on physical & magical level, but overall experience 
accounts for literacy & meditation :)
I agree on the unfairness for wiz/pri, would be too nasty...

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      Both alchemy and literacy do not incur the risk to die,
     
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      hence they should not contibute IMO.
     
     
Err, alchemy IS dangerous :)
Take a level 5 char, put 10+ ingredients in a cauldron, use the alchemy 
skill, you'll be lucky to not die imo ^_^
(mana blast, fire, bomb, monsters, ...)

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      I also tested the new system, and I can really understand
     
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      your notion. However, I think the main problem here is
     
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      the split of the magic skill being problematic.
     
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      The idea about intermediary levels isn't bad, but it
     
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      might be hard to implement and also more complicated.
     
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      I think it might be easier and more appropriate to just
     
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      not split magic and melee in the first place.
     
     
Hum I don't mind splitting really different magic skills. After all 
summoning elementals or using burning hands are not really the same thing.
OTOH, icestorm & burning hands do look the same, except one is fire and 
the other is ice..

Splitting skills though makes the game more 'realistic'.
Even if I'm a champion at one hand weapons, I don't know anything about 
using a bow... Or punching :)

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      AndreasV
     
     
Nicolas 'Ryo'


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