[crossfire] Ryo's cleanup

Mark Wedel mwedel at sonic.net
Sun May 20 01:03:53 CDT 2007


  Much thanks to Ryo for the work he's done.

  Much thanks to anyone who helps out on crossfire.

  Relative to others helping out, there is probably a long list.  I realize that 
a fair number of people on this list are not programmers or even map makers, but 
even players with a fair amount of experience can help out.

  It might be nice to have a list of things like this.  One thing that pops off 
the top of my head is both the lore fields in archetypes and the msg/endmsg 
field in spells.

  For spells, the idea of msg/endmsg is to add documentation on what the spell 
does, and if non intuitive, how to use it.  In both of the gtk clients, if you 
bring up the spell window, it provides these descriptions - a lot of spells 
don't have any information.  Filling in that information doesn't really require 
much more than an experienced player to know what they do.

  The lore/endlore field was something added but never used, at least not yet. 
The idea behind that was to fill out information for books and other readables - 
right now, for things like spells and monsters, the program will make books, but 
obviously in a form that is machine generated.  The idea of the lore was to 
provide information that was human generated, and could also include other 
information about the monster - things like how it attacks, hints to attack it 
back, etc.  IIRC, there was some mechanism in place to have different levels of 
lore (so how to kill Jessy wouldn't show up in a level 1 book).  But once again, 
this type of lore knowledge is something that can be filled in players who have 
fought those monsters, etc.



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