[crossfire] A few random ideas

[Mitch Obrian]

Knives should definatly be usable as weapons.

--- Mark Wedel <
     
     mwedel at sonic.net
     
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      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
     
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      => ready to cook 
     
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      >> apple pie. Then put it in oven (alchemy-like),
     
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      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
     
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      special item, that when 
     
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      > applied grabs the marked item. 'slaying' field is
     
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      checked to transform 
     
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      > if eligible.
     
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      > See doc/Developers/item_transformation for
     
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      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
     
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      half-apples :)
     
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        My one minor quibble is that people may get knives
     
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      and say 'hey, why can't I 
     
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      use this as a weapon'.  Which is somewhat valid I
     
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      suppose.
     
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        However, more relevantly, I wonder if there is a
     
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      way to make these complex 
     
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      operations easier than having to mark an object? I'd
     
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      think that perhaps the 
     
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      client could implement drag and drop for inventory
     
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      and maybe figure that out on 
     
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      its own (user drags torches to the flint, or vice
     
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      versa, etc).
     
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