[crossfire] More server speed reducing the objects number

[Mitch Obrian]

The corpse idea isn't a terrible idea /if/ we have
corpse pics for all the various monsters.

Also 2x2 creatures should have a 2x2 corpse.

This can be done if we can get the talented artists
who created our current monster pics in on the job.

Also, we need a new type. Container-food-weapon. So we
can still eat corpses... and can use them as a weapon
(ala nethack)... not an effective weapon though :P.

--- Alberto Sáez Lodeiros <
     cerzeo at gmail.com
     > wrote:

>
      > Mark Wedel wrote:
     >
      >   Downsides:
     >
      >
     >
      > 1) Monsters that pick up loot would now need to do
     >
      more work (instead of the
     >
      > objects of 5 dead creatures merging, they would be
     >
      all seperate, instead of the
     >
      > common objects merging.
     >
     
     >
      Monsters can pick up only the objects over the flor,
     >
      but not into the
     >
      corpse-container.
     >
      Or maybe, when the monster is over the
     >
      corpse-container, check the
     >
      object into it, and then move one random object from
     >
      corpse-container
     >
      to monster inventory.
     >
     
     >
      > 2) point 2 from above- fire effects may now have
     >
      more objects to check for
     >
      > destruction because they don't merge.
     >
     
     >
      When a fire spell (for example) burns the corpse,
     >
      you can make a
     >
      simple python routine, which destroy all objects
     >
      into the
     >
      corpse-container. Or simply, the same thing that
     >
      occurs when fire
     >
      reaches a chest, which is also a container.
     >
     
     >
      >   All that said, I'd think this should be more
     >
      driven by actually thinking this
     >
      > is a good or bad feature, not memory or
     >
      performance reasons.
     >
     
     >
      You can set a timer in the corpse which will destroy
     >
      the corpse and
     >
      all its contens, past 5 minutes, for example. In
     >
      this way, we will not
     >
      wait for server resets to clean the maps.
     >
     
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