[CF-Devel] faster portgate (context diff)

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Palfy Tamas wrote:
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      Yeah, waiting is as much part of the game as having to spend 15 mins to
     
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      get to Navar from Scorn on foot. Maybe it's intended, tho I wonder if
     
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      there was a real reason to make players suffer such things. Just to make
     
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      things harder so it's much better a challenge? Sure things ain't bad if
     
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      they are hard sometimes. Messing with players real time thru such pitiful
     
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      things ain't good either IMO.
     
     
  Well, there are certainly shortcuts, eg, get gobs of money, expand your 
apartment, and use the teleporters.

  Note that the bigworld goal wasn't to waste player time.  But it was to 
increase travel time a bit - it never made a lot of sense on the old smallworld 
where walking from town to town was only about 3 times longer than walking 
across the town itself.

  But it was a side goal to increase travel times some, so that it was no longer 
especially easy to visit every shop out there in 2 minutes flat.  while it may 
be a bit frustrating at times (I really want a book of XYZ, but this town 
doesn't have it), I think that is a reasonable part of the game.

  Now I do plan to make changes sometime soon that changes the player speed 
model some - players will be less likely to be blindingly fast, but player 
minimum speed will also be increased, so that players will no longer move at a 
crawl like that sometimes do when heavily loaded (and heavily loaded for a weak 
character might not be all that much stuff right now).

  Note that a longer term goal is to add other travel mechanisms (horses, boats, 
griffins, etc) that perhaps change travel times.

  I also wouldn't be all to adverse to adding a 'teleporter shop/guild' - has 
teleporters to a few fixed locations (major towns that are normally easy to get 
to) for a price - say like 100 pp or something.  So you then weight money vs time.


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