[crossfire] Idea for skills

[Mitch Obrian]

There should be NO redistribution of the quests IMHO.
If you want more quests in an area do what I'm doing
and make more (I'm working on a navar quest). If you
don't make more quests you don't have a right to
complain about a lack of quests in an area IMHO.

--- Yann Chachkoff <
     yann.chachkoff at myrealbox.com
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wrote:

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      I don't really like that idea.
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      Sure, the intend - force people to explore the world
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      furthermore - is good. 
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      But I see little justification of forcing them to
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      make a given quest to 
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      increase their level. Arbitrarily capping the levels
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      looks very artificial to 
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      me. 
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      On the other hand, I think that a similar principle
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      (make some quests a "must 
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      do" to go further) could be used to unlock other
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      quests and areas. Such a 
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      system would be easy to justify scenaristically-wise
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      and would achieve the 
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      same result without artificially bending the
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      skills/levels system, or 
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      requiring changes to the code.
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      It would mean that a geographical redistribution of
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      the quests would have to 
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      be done at some point, and/or that "locks" would
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      have to be put to prevent 
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      access to higher-level quests. 
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      But all this sounds like map-making job, which I see
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      as a better (or 
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      cleaner ?) way to go than creating another
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      special-case to rules in the code. 
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      I tend to think that the whole problem of people not
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      exploring the world all 
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      comes down to the quests structure and locations:
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      people don't explore 
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      because they have no reasons to do it, and because
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      travelling without 
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      encountering anything is just plain boring. I'm far
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      from being convinced that 
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      we'd solve that problem with another piece of code -
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      I think that improving 
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      *maps* would lead to more satisfying solutions.
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      So, my opinion:
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      - No to artificial capping of levels;
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      - Yes to "capping" of quests and areas access,
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      unlocking them by finishing 
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      some "key quests".
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      Le Samedi 26 Novembre 2005 15:47, Nicolas Weeger a
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      écrit :
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      > Hello.
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      >
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      > Here's an idea concerning skills: add a "cap level
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      without doing a quest".
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      > For instance (levels are random numbers): a player
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      could level up to 15
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      > in one handed weapons. Then he'd need to complete
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      a quest to be able to
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      > get to 25, then another for 40, and so on.
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      >
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      > The aim would be to force players to explore the
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      world, to find those
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      > quests to reach higher levels. Of course the
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      quests should be designed
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      > to be do-able with level ~15 / 25 / 40 one-handed
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      weapon.
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      >
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      > Ryo
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