[crossfire] More server speed reducing the objects number

[Mitch Obrian]

Also the corpses should look bloodied up, and if
someone consumed the monster totaly with fire spell
etc then a corpse shouldn't be dropped.

--- Mitch Obrian <
     mikeeusaaa at yahoo.com
     > wrote:

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      The corpse idea isn't a terrible idea /if/ we have
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      corpse pics for all the various monsters.
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      Also 2x2 creatures should have a 2x2 corpse.
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      This can be done if we can get the talented artists
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      who created our current monster pics in on the job.
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      Also, we need a new type. Container-food-weapon. So
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      we
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      can still eat corpses... and can use them as a
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      weapon
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      (ala nethack)... not an effective weapon though :P.
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      --- Alberto Sáez Lodeiros <
      cerzeo at gmail.com
      > wrote:
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      > > Mark Wedel wrote:
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      > >   Downsides:
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      > >
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      > > 1) Monsters that pick up loot would now need to
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      do
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      > more work (instead of the
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      > > objects of 5 dead creatures merging, they would
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      be
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      > all seperate, instead of the
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      > > common objects merging.
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      > 
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      > Monsters can pick up only the objects over the
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      flor,
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      > but not into the
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      > corpse-container.
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      > Or maybe, when the monster is over the
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      > corpse-container, check the
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      > object into it, and then move one random object
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      from
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      > corpse-container
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      > to monster inventory.
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      > 
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      > > 2) point 2 from above- fire effects may now have
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      > more objects to check for
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      > > destruction because they don't merge.
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      > 
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      > When a fire spell (for example) burns the corpse,
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      > you can make a
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      > simple python routine, which destroy all objects
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      > into the
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      > corpse-container. Or simply, the same thing that
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      > occurs when fire
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      > reaches a chest, which is also a container.
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      > 
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      > >   All that said, I'd think this should be more
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      > driven by actually thinking this
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      > > is a good or bad feature, not memory or
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      > performance reasons.
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      > 
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      > You can set a timer in the corpse which will
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      destroy
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      > the corpse and
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      > all its contens, past 5 minutes, for example. In
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      > this way, we will not
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      > wait for server resets to clean the maps.
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      > 
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