[crossfire] A few random ideas

[Mitch Obrian]

/me notes that mlab has mines...

--- Mark Wedel <
     
     mwedel at sonic.net
     
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      Andrew Fuchs wrote:
     
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      > On 4/15/05, Mitch Obrian <
      
      mikeeusaaa at yahoo.com
      
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      wrote:
     
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      >>Gold and platinum ore should only be found in
     
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      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
     
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      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
     
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      randomly?
     
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      > Possibly only within predefined areas.
     
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        Making mines appear randomly on the world maps
     
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      gets a little trickier, in that 
     
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      presumably, you'd new ones created and old ones to
     
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      go away.  However, making it 
     
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      so that an old one goes away when no one is using it
     
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      gets harder.
     
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        PRobably easier to just make random maps, and have
     
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      something like a minestyle. 
     
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        The mines could use special destroyable walls
     
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      (with pickaxe/shovel or 
     
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      something), and have random spaces that have ore (or
     
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      more clever, have special 
     
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      mine type code that actually does the ore in veins).
     
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        With a random map, it would have a set location,
     
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      which IMO isn't really a 
     
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      problem.  And it'd periodically reset, so people
     
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      could go mining again.
     
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