[CF-Devel] On teleportation

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      D-style means one thing: You have to go to the particular place before
     
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      being able to teleport there. How many teleporter the big world maps need
     
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      does not concern this. (Oh yeah, big world map should have hundreds of
     
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      teleporters, I agree :-D )
     
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      (Besides, some base code for that would be useful later on anyway... Well
     
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      it requires some markers put on players. Dunno if there were any limit of
     
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      that. There are -at least- two examples in the game already (Ancient
     
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      Pupland and the Hero of Scorn thing, the latter seems not to be working
     
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      after a while tho).)
     
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      I think this type of teleportation would be perfect for experienced
     
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      players and would force newbies (and pro players in new areas) to do some
     
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      "gaming" except "hunting rampage".
     
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I think you missed my point - there are only some 20 or so places to go 
in Diablo, all in rough order building to the final confrontation.  You 
can go anywhere in Crossfire (there is no final confrontation or 
preferred path) and there are 900 world maps alone (not counting things 
like pupland and dungeon locations).  When you step onto a Diablo 
waypoint you can choose where you are to go from a little list of places 
you've been on that level - how would you usefully do this in Crossfire 
when - a) there is not order of adventure, b) there are literally 
hundreds of destinations (many currently empty I admit - but potential)
Town portal lets you set up a two way portal now so that's covered, it 
is how to get there in the second place you are wondering about.

Well you could join a guild, or learn that in dungeon X is a teleporter 
to Y, or pay to ride the wagon to Navar, use transportation spells to 
speed your journey (there's a thought - create some places like the 
pupland terminal which can only be accessed by a spell or magic device. 
  You could make scads of these from a single archetype by setting 
slaying field in the object.  You could get there by using the spell or 
device.  Make one for the Astral Plane or Gaia's glade or the Shadow 
Closet, or the Caves of the Elder Dwarves... This would be fine since it 
would require learning the spell or finding the device... (low levels 
still loose out but that is how it works usually- they don't get 
powerdragon mail either)   I still see no need for a 'teleport system' 
however.


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