[crossfire] Server map redo: movement types

[Anton Oussik]

On 8/30/05, Brendan Lally <
     
     brenlally at gmail.com
     
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      Additionally MOVE_HORSE, being much faster than walking, but less
     
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      and MOVE_WAGON, which would be able to carry vast amounts of items,
     
     

And your face should change to a mounted figure or horse driven carriage. 
Maybe also include MOVE_SHIP when you get a ship, which can travel very 
fast, but can only dock in ports. Then you have to navigate between ports, 
or perhaps have director-driven shipping routes, so you get on he route and 
your ship sails itself using directors to your destination.

Finally, instead of dragons teleporting you from A to B you could also get 
on a dragon (with a face change) and fly (maybe along flying routes like 
ships?) to other places. This idea is somewhat questionable though, as being 
able to hire a dragon and just fly anywhere seems like a far too easy way to 
travel.


Also, it would be nice to change the face of the player under some
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      movement modes (raise the player a few pixels, and add shadow beneath
     
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      them if they are flying, have only part of them visible above water if
     
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      they are swimming), or the character on a horse if they are riding,
     
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      this would give visual cues as to the state of each player.
     
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      Also swimming should probably act like swamps, rolling to see if you
     
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      are about to drown.
     
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      Speaking of image transformations, when something moves from a square A to 
     
     a square B it currently stays in A all the way until it jumps to B. Could 
the new protocol provide a way for the transition to take n seconds (or 
ticks or frames), so arrows would really fly, and monsters would walk at you 
instead of jumping, the land would scroll by as player walks on it, and 
spells would propogate more smoothly? I don't know if this is even vaguely 
possible given that currently CF is completely tile-based.
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