[crossfire] Buildable savebeds

[Mitch Obrian]

I doubt that a sim would take up much cpu time if
abstracted abit. When a player enters the area then
gen the real animals.

--- Anton Oussik <
     
     antonoussik at gmail.com
     
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      On 5/29/05, Lalo Martins <
      
      lalo at laranja.org
      
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      > <quote who="Anton Oussik">
     
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      > > Upon joining a guild or buying an old-style
     
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      apartment/castle the
     
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      > > players will get a permanent apartment anyhow
     
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      though, and that may
     
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      > > make this player class an attractive guild
     
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      class. This certainly
     
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      > > requires more thought.
     
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      > This is supposed to only happen at a relatively
     
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      high level. So I think if
     
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      > we're modeling gipsies and traveling merchants
     
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      (for example), it's not
     
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      > uncommon that they join a guild after some
     
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      experience.  By that point,
     
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      > we'll have to trust that the player has come to
     
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      *enjoy* the wilderness
     
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      > life enough to prefer it rather than reverting to
     
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      a "normal" guild player.
     
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      In that case I guess it may be OK to allow them into
     
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      guilds, although
     
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      strictly speaking it may be easier to disallow them
     
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      to sleep on beds
     
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      of reality. That would require them to be outside in
     
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      the wilderness to
     
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      save, unable to get to sleep on a bed.
     
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      > What I worry more is - how are they "attacked" in
     
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      their "sleep"?  Just
     
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      > logging in to find "sorry, your character is dead"
     
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      is VERY uncool.  Maybe
     
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      > the attack happens *when* you log in (on the
     
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      excuse that "you wake up to
     
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      > strange sounds.  Oh no!  Your tent is being
     
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      attacked by wild creatures!")
     
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      Coding-wise this wya seems best.
     
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      > Or better, the presence of an occupied tent will
     
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      "attract" these random
     
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      > monsters, which will stick around until someone
     
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      wakes up.  (From the
     
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      > strictly technical point of view, with map loading
     
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      and unloading, that's
     
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      > not exactly what happens, but you get my point.) 
     
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      So this is a way in
     
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      > which a "caravan" would make people more safe;
     
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      bigger chance that someone
     
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      > else will take care of the monster before you
     
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      "wake up"  ;-)
     
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      I'm not sure how this can be done. Perhaps it could
     
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      be left out to
     
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      start with, and then tied into a more general "wild
     
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      animals" patch
     
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      (there was talk earlier of making realistic wildlife
     
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      by adding more
     
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      animals and have them breed, eat, and hunt each
     
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      other. Therefore
     
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      depending on the climate different plants would
     
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      grow, thereofre
     
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      different animals would be able to survive eating
     
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      those plants,
     
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      therefore different predators would be able to
     
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      survive eating them.
     
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      Therefore we could end up with wild penguins and
     
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      polar bears at the
     
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      poles, and wild camels in the desert. Since a real
     
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      simulation would be
     
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      too resource-consuming the game would have to
     
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      approximate and seed the
     
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      map with the correct number of animals at map load.
     
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      Perhaps presence
     
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      of a tent to reality on the map should have a chance
     
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      of increasing the
     
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      number of man-eating monsters).
     
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