[crossfire] A few random ideas

[Mark Wedel]

Andrew Fuchs wrote:
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      On 4/15/05, Mitch Obrian <
      
      mikeeusaaa at yahoo.com
      
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     Gold and platinum ore should only be found in limited
     
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     places in limited supply. We could have a
     
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     geography/mineral map for each world map maby: Ie you
     
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     dig in this spot you get x etc.
     
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      How about make mines and generic caves appear randomly?
     
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      Possibly only within predefined areas.
     
     
  Making mines appear randomly on the world maps gets a little trickier, in that 
presumably, you'd new ones created and old ones to go away.  However, making it 
so that an old one goes away when no one is using it gets harder.

  PRobably easier to just make random maps, and have something like a minestyle. 
  The mines could use special destroyable walls (with pickaxe/shovel or 
something), and have random spaces that have ore (or more clever, have special 
mine type code that actually does the ore in veins).

  With a random map, it would have a set location, which IMO isn't really a 
problem.  And it'd periodically reset, so people could go mining again.