[crossfire] Quests ideas, continued

[Mark Wedel]

Nicolas Weeger wrote:
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      Quests are subdivided in "tasks". You don't need to complete all tasks
     
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      to complete the quest. So for instance if you ask an ncp you'll get to
     
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      know the shortcut to the big manor with the villain you're supposed to
     
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      kill, but you don't require it.
     
     
  It'd probably be nice if that is somehow setable (eg, you need to do tasks 
1,5,6, but 2 and 3 are optional).   Not positive how hard that would be to set up.

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      Quests/tasks should be able to interact/start/end when player:
     
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      * takes an item
     
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      * talks to a npc/...
     
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      * goes to a specific place
     
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      * activates an altar
     
     
  I'd like that be be more general - activates any connected object, just not an 
altar.  Might not make sense to tie some actions, but I think the ability would 
make it more flexible.


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      Quests rewards:
     
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      * items
     
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      * skill
     
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      * experience (either some levels, some rough exp, a percentage of exp
     
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      needed to level, ...)
     
     
  If this is a level or percentage of a level, then I think some form of cap is 
needed.  Eg, you don't want high level characters doing easy quests as a way to 
get a level in something.


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      * when the quest is completed, keep tasks for later referral. Or maybe
     
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      remove some?
     
     
  probably want to record quests that where completed, not sure if we care about 
unfinished tasks.

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      Performance issues: many inventory checks required. Move quests items in
     
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      a specific sublist at load time?
     
     
  Some checks, but it seems not very often.

  Monsters being killed doesn't happen that often, so checking their contents at 
that time isn't that big a deal.

  All the rest are relatively infrequent (player talking, altar, etc).  So I 
don't think performance wise, it shoudl be much an issue.