[crossfire] Random ideas.

[temitchell at sympatico.ca]

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      How is this for a proposal:
     
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      1) Increase the stat limit to 35.  However, this would be done by effectively 
     
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      stretching out the bonuses, eg, the bonuses a character currently gets at 30, 
     
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      under the new system they would need a 35, so bonuses at 30, 25, etc, would be 
     
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      lower than they are now, thus weakening hte characters (I really don't want to 
     
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      make any change that would let characters become yet even more powerful)  I'm 
     
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      still mixed on this, especially see point at end
     
     
Sounds good, this means even players with really good starting rolls (this being everyone who spends some time at it) are not maxed out.

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      2) By default, stat potions would be temporary, but with a long duration (in 
     
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      real time, like an hour).  A small percentage of the time, they may permanently 
     
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      increase a stat.  [...] If stat potions gave me a temporary boost, 
     
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      I'd probably drink a potion of almost all the stats before going into a dungeon.
     
     
I like it.

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      3) It could be interesting to make potions that would increase stats by 2 points 
     
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      (greater strenght potion, etc) on the temporary basis.  These greater potions 
     
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      would also have a greater chance of permanently increasing a stat, but would 
     
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      still only increase it by 1 point)
     
     
Sounds like a good idea.

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      4) Change #2, while not incompatible with existing code, maks things pretty 
     
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      unfair to new players who have to play by different stat raising rules that 
     
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      players who have been on the server that predate this change.  I suppose someone 
     
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      could write a script that basically adjusts existing characters stats (knowing 
     
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      that at best, the starting total would have to in some range or something), but 
     
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      that is likely to make existing characters not especially happy.
     
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        Likewise, change #1, presuming the stats aren't lowered for existing 
     
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      characters, would weaken characters (characters would not have as many 
     
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      hp/sp/grace as before, do less damage, be slower, etc).  This can actually be 
     
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      pretty annoying - it might have been that you could pretty easily kill a dragon, 
     
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      but with the changes, dragon now kills you - it'd probably take a little time 
     
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      for players to effectively 'rediscover' their characters
     
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This happens to some degree whenever something changes, in this case since it is a global change to players, massive warning campaign should be used to let people know.  Then people will start drinking heavily.