[crossfire] A few random ideas

[Mark Wedel]

Nicolas Weeger wrote:
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      * items combination / use item with item
     
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      Example one, use apple on knife => sliced apple.
     
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      Example two, use sliced apple with base pie crust => ready to cook 
     
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      apple pie. Then put it in oven (alchemy-like), except if you fail you 
     
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      just get a burnt pie, no exploding oven!
     
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      Ok, just committed code to do just that.
     
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      New item type, ITEM_TRANSFORMER (163). Just a special item, that when 
     
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      applied grabs the marked item. 'slaying' field is checked to transform 
     
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      if eligible.
     
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      See doc/Developers/item_transformation for explanations.
     
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      Crash example:
     
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      * create a 'knife' archetype, with type 163
     
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      * create 'half_apple' archetype
     
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      * add to apple archetype:
     
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        slaying knife:2 half_apple
     
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      Now mark the apple, apply knife, you got 2 nice half-apples :)
     
     
  My one minor quibble is that people may get knives and say 'hey, why can't I 
use this as a weapon'.  Which is somewhat valid I suppose.

  However, more relevantly, I wonder if there is a way to make these complex 
operations easier than having to mark an object? I'd think that perhaps the 
client could implement drag and drop for inventory and maybe figure that out on 
its own (user drags torches to the flint, or vice versa, etc).