[crossfire] New movement code.

[Joshua Wilson]

Brendan Lally wrote:

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      Gameplay is to me the key point, If there is drowning, then there is
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      no need to have massive alterations to world maps that have open
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      bodies of water (and illogical limits on where a player can and can't
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      swim). If some characters are not guarenteed to be able to drown, then
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      they could go anywhere in a body of water, which would mean a need to
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      modify them to define where someone can't swim to.
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Your right here - it's all about gameplay.  While I like the idea (an 
elegant solution to the problem) I'm simply exploring the 
holes/complaints I think players/people might try to poke in it.

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      The 'all water is partially holy water' argument does have one other
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      problem, in that wraiths can drink potions of water with no ill
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      effects.
     
Indeed - and being rained on if the weather code is used or drinking 
standard water bottles.  That being said it's certainly still a viable 
option.

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     Isn't holy water blessed by a priest to become holy, and after it's been
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     used no longer "holy" and just "water"?  In this case wouldn't water
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     returned to the sea no longer be holy?
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      That's an interesting question, I infer from the wikipedia quote
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      above, that the water would then no longer be exorcised, but that is
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      an unsourced line from a wikipedia article. I have been unable to find
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      a better reference myself.
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      I do know that the quantity of water recognised as holy by any person
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      is a tiny fraction of the world's total (even if the hindu
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      intrepretation is used where (as I understand it) the entire river
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      gagnes is considered holy - I'm unsure on this point, and would
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      welcome it being corrected, I don't think hinduism has exorcism of
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      water in the same way as Christianity.)
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      Anyway, regardless of the reality of holy water, the world of
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      crossfire is polytheistic, one god can define its persistance in
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      rivers, seas and streams (but not in glass bottles, or fountains -
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      sounds kinda like a gaea sort of claim to me.), while the others
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      don't.
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      If their banishments can work against wraith, why not their holy water?
     
Works for me!

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