[crossfire] combat notes

[David Delbecq]

Speaking of throwing objects in general, i don't know if it was adressed 
in your code, but the
movement speed of the throwed object (arrow, dagger, whatever) should 
not be the same as the speed
of the object itself.

For example, if a dagger has a speed such that player can attack 3 times 
per second with it,
it certainly should move faster when thrown. 3 squares per/secon is 
unnatural, the player can run faster than that
and take the hit in itself. If a weapon was that slow, it would 
certainly drop on the ground immediatly (or make a very high balistic 
curve). I guess a speed factor of 5 or maybe better 10 should be applied 
to the throwed object. Note that it shouldn't affect the distance the 
object can travel, that part is correct in current code afaik.
What should also be removed in throwed items code is the fact items 
slows down in the end of movement. It is very unnatural. A dagger reach 
it's limit range because it drops on ground due to gravity, not because 
it is slowing down to a halt (that would be the behaviour of a rolling 
object).

I noticed all this when fixing the issue where throwing was not giving 
correct experience.

En l'instant précis du 29/11/07 08:08, Mark Wedel s'exprimait en ces 
termes:
> Anton Oussik wrote:
>   
>> On 28/11/2007, Mark Wedel <mwedel at sonic.net> wrote:
>>     
>>>   I did use a bow a little bit - quite effective.  It does shoot really fast, so
>>> can easily burn through a large number of arrows.  I think it may be more
>>> appropriate to lower fire rate of bows and increase their damage, just so
>>> characters don't need to carry around 1000 arrows (which at low level can be
>>> hard to find or actually fairly expensive to by).  Maybe a quiver of infinite
>>> arrows is needed.
>>>       
>> Consider adding many different (more powerful) arrows and bows, and
>> adding them as alchemy targets. Try to balance them so that no one
>> above level 10 or so would want to use the stock low level arrows
>> (i.e. a level 10 bowyer should be able to reliably produce an arrow
>> that is better than the default one, without expending much
>> resources/effort).
>>     
>
>   That sounds correct, but as a first pass (right now), I'm more focused on 
> balancing out the combat stuff.  Certainly better arrows, and in larger numbers, 
> are needed.  A difference from melee weapons is that arrows tend to get 
> destroyed, so if you had 15 really good arrows, at the end of the battle, you 
> may only have 5, but your nice artifact weapon is just as good as when you start.
>