[crossfire] Buildable Land Plots

[Mitch Obrian]

# -When a map maker builds over a land plot entrance,
#what happens to 
#the land plot?

Land plot is deleted? (It's a tough world out there :)
)

--- Alex Schultz <
     
     alex_sch at telus.net
     
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      Hi,
     
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      For a while I've been hearing on and off about
     
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      people thinking about 
     
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      making buildable land plots in bigworld. I'm not
     
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      sure who to credit for 
     
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      the origional idea, but I've taken some time to plan
     
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      out one possible 
     
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      way of doing it. Here's the steps to buildable land
     
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      plots according what 
     
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      I've been thinking would work well. In this plan, I
     
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      try to keep every 
     
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      feature that could potentially be useful outside of
     
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      the bigworld land 
     
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      plots in the server code as opposed to python just
     
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      to make it flexable 
     
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      for map makers to use such features in the future
     
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      for other things. So 
     
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      here's what I've been thinking would be a good way
     
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      to impliment 
     
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      buildable land plots adding feature by feature.
     
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      -Add 'global unique' maps:
     
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          -permenantly stored like unique, only it's
     
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      stored in a different 
     
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      location and is shared between all players
     
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          -existing permenant maps (i.e. guild) like maps
     
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      shouldn't be used 
     
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      because these need are generated while running like
     
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      unique or random 
     
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      maps, so near the unique maps in their own place
     
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      makes sence.
     
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      -Random map changes:
     
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          -Allow random map generator to make unique maps
     
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      (is this already 
     
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      possible?)
     
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          -Allow random map generator to make 'gobal
     
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      unique' maps
     
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          -Create 'open space' map style, which generates
     
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      no walls except for 
     
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      the outer border.
     
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      -Building changes:
     
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          -Allow maps to specify in their header that
     
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      building is restricted
     
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              -'Building passes' allow building in these
     
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      areas (can be made as 
     
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      an invisible force, or as a card type object, to be
     
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      flexible)
     
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      -Fix overlays:
     
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          -Fix conflicts with weather
     
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          -Fix other misc bugs
     
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      -Write python glue code for details of land plots
     
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      that can't be used as 
     
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      features elsewhere:
     
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          -Python for making the map entrance, and the
     
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      building passes
     
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      -Make random map styles
     
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      ISSUES:
     
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          -Where should land plots be buildable?
     
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          -When a map maker builds over a land plot
     
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      entrance, what happens to 
     
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      the land plot?
     
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          -What (if anything) should be done about the
     
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      potential issue of 
     
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      players trapping eachother in buildable areas.
     
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      Supporting (not needed or important, but would
     
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      enhance the experience of 
     
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      buildable land plots) details:
     
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          -Buildable savebeds
     
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          -Buildable lock/key pairs
     
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          -Buildable shops
     
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          -Buildable teleporters
     
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          -Buildable crafting stations (?)
     
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          -New buildable things (i.e. new walls, grass,
     
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      etc.)
     
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      Comments? Suggestions? Any help working on any parts
     
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      of this would be great.
     
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      Thanks,
     
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              Alex Schultz
     
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