[crossfire] Improved post office idea

[Andrew Fuchs]

On 9/26/05, Nicolas Weeger <
     
     nicolas.weeger at laposte.net
     
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      When we'll have the new plugin system (*ponders sending in a
     
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      search party for gros*), I'll extend the post office to send
     
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      items to other players.
     
     
Was rednaxela doing something related to this (swig bindings)?

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      I think it's not that hard actually:
     
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      * sending player drops items on a some specific altar/square
     
     
I think a box would be the easiest, to impose weight limits.

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      * items get teleported to a unique square in a global
     
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      (unlinked probably?) map
     
     
A unique map could get messy.  I think it is cleaner just to use the
functions provided by the python plugin to store the items in a
seperate file.

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      If many items are sent this way, then maybe the check on
     
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      whether a player has or not items in the unique map could be
     
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      skipped, and simply a message sent when items are sent.
     
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      (because each time a player connects you need to open the
     
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      storage map, check items for one having the right custom_name).
     
     
Again, using a file would probaly be cleaner imo.

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      Also, there could be fun things to do with that:
     
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      * pay item-price/10 + item-weight/10 for standard send, but,
     
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      alas, probability to lose the item is ~10%
     
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      * pay item-price, item is either sent or you get item-price *
     
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      5 indemnity (~1% chance)
     
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      * delivery takes time
     
     
Just have items randomly "get lost" for a period of time, but allow a
decent amount of cash to be dumped on "first class" delivery of some
sort.

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      * receiving player pays some fees based on distance between
     
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      the 2 post offices (hard to compute distance, though)
     
     
Hmm, courrupt post offices in some areas, maby.

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Andrew Fuchs