[CF-Devel] On teleportation

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       But that doesn't tell you position on the map.  And arguably, the 
     
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      mapinfo command could be removed or otherwise more hidden (eg, have a 
     
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      map name in the map header, and display that instead of the map path).
     
     
Side note: maby maps don'' seem to have a descriptive name. That should 
be fixed first :)

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       Not really true.  It means if you want to add that gate and have it 
     
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      accessible, you need to update the teleporter shop.  But one could 
     
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      certainly see cases of the teleporter shops in different towns even 
     
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      being a bit different (eg, the one in navar city may have some 
     
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      destinations that are more in its local vicinity).
     
     
Sounds reasonable. But it would be nice to have in each town teleporters 
to other main towns.

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       Also, I'd expect the teleporters in the shops to be one way teleporters 
     
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      - they will get you there, but you need some other way to get back.
     
     
Yes, I was seeing this like that too. Else word of recall / town portal 
are less fun :)

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       I believe this is already done.  The weather code has to rely on that 
     
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      for seasons and what not.
     
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       The other reason to disallow user supplied coordinates:  There are some 
     
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      maps, lake county comes immediately to mind, but probably places like 
     
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      pup land also, where movement on the map itself is restricted, eg, it is 
     
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      part of a quest or something to be able to get to a certain space on the 
     
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      map.  If the user could supply coordinates, they could easily bypass any 
     
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      such checks.
     
     
I was thinking of teleporting in /world maps only. Are Lake County / 
Pupland there now?
But yes, some checking should probably be done...

Nicolas 'Ryo'


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