[CF-Devel] Map building, continued

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Nicolas Weeger wrote:
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       I'm dubious that a good, easy to use in game map editor can be done 
     
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      that will do everything players want without opening up other holes.
     
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       OK - I know that can't happen, because some players have extreme 
     
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      demands.  But you really get into problems of what a player want and 
     
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      can you really allow it (I want to make a teleporter to X.  I want a 
     
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      cauldron.  I want an ....)
     
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      If I were to include map building, at first i'd only include walls & 
     
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      doors (what i did till now). Doing just that is a good start imo, and 
     
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      could serve as a test whether players want more or not. It of course 
     
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      lets customize much already. And probably all building must be 
     
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      restricted to one's apartment.
     
     
  yeah.  But if you only allow walls & doors, which could easily be checked for 
uploaded maps, most any map could be safe.

  You obviously don't want players populating maps where they shouldn't.  But 
one could sell some number of the empty houses for example (let players design 
their own guilds?)

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      Teleporters could be done. For instance, buy a teleporter to Navar & put 
     
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      it where you want. Of course only predefined locations. Or why not allow 
     
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      building teleporters between one players's apartments.
     
     
  Yeah - only to predefined locations.  Intra apartment teleporters could be 
done, but would be hard to do just as is (a teleporter to navar city is pretty 
simple, as the map name and coordinates are well known.  To teleport to a 
players apartment, the map name is now variable.)


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      Of course prices would have to be taken into account. I was thinking of 
     
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      either making it expensive (# platinum) or using rare items, or why not 
     
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      alchemy-made items you couldn't buy - something to give players the will 
     
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      to level in some skills.
     
     
  I personally don't like the idea of requiring players to level in skills if 
they don't want to use it.

  And from a 'realistic' point, one would say there would be alchemists willing 
to do the work.  Just as in real life, it isn't a requirement to be a mechanic 
to drive a car - you can pay someone else to be the mechanic.  If there was any 
trueness to the crossfire world, same would be true - if there were a bunch of 
people that wanted alchemy work done, and alchemist would open up shop and do so.



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