[crossfire] Project: Slow down combat (vs magic)

[Nicolas Weeger]

>   I think most everyone knows magic is messed up in many ways - many of the
> top vote getters were related to magic.  And certainly once melee combat is
> done, the spell system gets redone

I'd say we should try to do both. Fixing melee implies to balance monsters, so 
we should take the time to balance for magic too.

>   I'd also say that is only really required if the current system (code)
> was deemed completely unsuitable and thus needed to be redone from scratch.
> Obviously, in that case, you'd need want to try and design most of the
> system before writing code.

If we were to rewrite from scratch, yes, designing beforehand is nice :)

>   I don't think crossfire is in that state.  Combat needs to adjustments,
> as do spells.  Some of those adjustments may be pretty big.  But I also
> think that archetype changes will be a much bigger piece than code changes.

Probably, yes.
And restarting from scratch isn't that fun, and not required imo.


Nicolas
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