[crossfire] Building materials

[Mitch Obrian]

I suggest just making more archtypes. Python sometimes
breaks depending on verison. C and text isn't as
finicky. I rather like the shop way it is now and have
added a material store to MLAB CityDeClouds awhile ago
along with buildable plots.

--- Nicolas Weeger <
     
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      A few months ago I committed my building code, which
     
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      lets a player build a map at will.
     
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      To correctly be used, the player needs 'Raw
     
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      materials', like 'Raw floor material', one per
     
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      square to be used.
     
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      Currently, there is only one floor type, and one
     
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      wall type, as well as the ability to remove walls.
     
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      I was thinking of adding more things to build, and
     
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      wondering the best way to do that.
     
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      Right now, my code uses special archetypes,
     
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      hardcoded with the built item in the 'slaying' field
     
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      of the archetype.
     
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      The idea I had is to make a python plugin to let
     
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      users request materials. So the player could go to a
     
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      shop, and ask for 'wood floor', or 'marble floor',
     
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      or 'fountain', and so on.
     
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      How I was thinking of implementing that was:
     
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      * when the player asks for material, create a dummy
     
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      material object.
     
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      * set its slaying field with the archetype name
     
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      (need a 'human name to archetype' conversion so
     
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      players can say 'wood floor' instead of 'woodfloor'
     
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      or whatever the archetype is)
     
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      * if required, change the material type to 'wall',
     
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      'floor', 'item'.
     
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      Those last 3 types are the 3 types of items my code
     
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      currently handles: wall will be built on a floor,
     
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      and try to connect to other floors around. Floor
     
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      will destroy a wall on the square, and/or replace
     
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      existing floor. Finally item is checked for
     
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      'connected' (door, lever, ...) type, connected if
     
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      required (through the use of a marking rune), and
     
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      inserted.
     
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      The main point I have currently is that letting a
     
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      player request material may lead to abuse. You could
     
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      ask for 'dragon mail', then build one, if code isn't
     
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      correctly done.
     
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      To prevent that, I see 3 solutions:
     
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      * build a 'safe list' of archetypes players can
     
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      build, fill it with everything they should be
     
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      allowed to create
     
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      * build a 'safe list' of item types allowed. Thus
     
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      you can disable 'armor' but enable 'wall'.
     
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      * don't do any plugin, and make archetypes for all
     
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      buildable items :)
     
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      The 1st is more messy, because when you add a new
     
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      floor/wall/... you need to update the list, but lets
     
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      you have more control over what you can or cannot
     
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      build.
     
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      The 2nd may be easier to do (only let players build
     
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      floor, wall, doors/level/..., and items with no
     
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      type), but gives less freedom.
     
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      3rd is the current one, but will take time to make
     
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      archetypes for everything you can build - and kind
     
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      of duplicate many things.
     
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      So, what does everyone think of that?
     
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      Nicolas
     
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