[CF-Devel] On teleportation

[crossfire-devel-admin at archives.real-time.com]

  Just a note -

  I personally think the ability of players to be able to teleport should be 
restricted.

  This issue of insecureness of maps already mentioned (lake county is on the 
bigworld world maps, and I think pupland is or was talked about being put 
there).  It is impossible (IMO) to have any form of reasonable checking without 
various map changes to know if a player should be able to teleport to one of 
those spaces by providing coordinates.

  One could state that there is already some limited ability to do this with 
town portal.  But it's just that - limited.  A player might be able to set up 
something to teleport to an area to bypass some various checks (however, he 
would have had to gotten there once).  But the fact that the player is only 
allowed to have one set of town portals probably reduces this - do you really 
want to use that one town portal connection to wait for the map it leads to to 
reset?  Or might you want to re-cast it someplace where you're currently 
adventuring?

  If you're allowed a large set of such connections, then I forsee problems of a 
player having a dozen such spots set about.

  I'd also note that one of the justications behind the bigworld maps was to 
space things out a bit. Eg, a journey from scorn to navar city should be non 
trivial.  If we just add teleporters all over the place, what's really the point 
then.  One could take this further (to a level of absurbity) - why not just have 
a city with all the dungeons right in it so you never have to go anywhere at all?

  That said, some things could perhaps be improved - add some paths that lead to 
major dungeons, make some other things a little more visible.  But IMO some of 
hte game probably should be adventuring, and if you just make everything easy to 
find, what is really the point?

  And for those dungeons a little farther out - it is obviously up to the player 
to decide if they want to head to them or not.  But even as is, it still doesn't 
take more than a minute or two of real time to go from scorn to navar city, 
which is basically accross the continent.  So nothing on the big world is really 
ever that far away.




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