[CF-Devel] Consecrate, spell runes

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ERACC wrote:
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      Greetings Developers,
     
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      On crossfire.metalforge.net the altars in the temples in Scorn were
     
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      ALL consecrated to Valriel recently (level 110). I "fixed" the altars
     
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      by resetting the maps but it was too late for at least one player who
     
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      prayed and lost about 15 praying levels. The DMs have a good idea who
     
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      did it by examining circumstantial evidence, no hard proof. BUT it
     
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      would be nice to have the player's name tied to a consecrated altar
     
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      like is done when a player casts a marking rune. Best would be to fix
     
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      the temple altars so they can't be reconsecrated. I have looked at
     
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      where I *think* this could done but am really clueless about whether
     
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      or not I am looking at the correct code. :-/
     
     
  Well, simplest fix would be to make all the altars in the temples 'level 150' 
or something - a level higher than the player could ever achieve, and thus not 
something that can be consecrated.

  Tying player name to all that can be difficult, because finding a field in the 
object could be a problem.  Much easier would be to just generate a log message, 
similiar to what is done for player killing.  Then the admins could look over 
the logs and say 'oh, so and so cast a bunch of consecrate spells on altars' - 
if the log messages include the map name, it makes tying that information very 
easy.  And I'm not sure if putting the players name in the altar may somehow 
break things (I'd actually bet if a player had a name of 'of', it actually might 
- you'd get something like "of's altar of lythander", and it is possible that 
code parsing could get confused by that first of.

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      Come to think of it, it would be a good idea to embed the player's
     
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      name in ANY rune as well as in items the player might change. It
     
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      would help finding those players that have evil intent and place
     
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      harming runes in newbie areas "as a joke". Perhaps leave some sort of
     
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      marker where the rune was until the map resets to help DMs root out
     
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      the trouble makers.
     
     
  This may be doable for these runes in that I don't think the name matters. 
OTOH, doing it in the log files may still be better cosmetically (how, for 
example, should another player be able to know that Bob cast that fireball rune)


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