[crossfire] Spell rebalancing notes/thoughts

[Nicolas Weeger]

>   What I really care about is not whether hp/sp/whatever goes down (because
> as mentioned, a clever fighter could perhaps prevent that), but rather
> total time it takes to gain a level.
>
>   The real time it takes for a fighter and mage to gain a level should be
> the same.  If it takes the mage 3 times longer, that needs to be fixed.
>
>   If it does take the same time, and it means the mage is spending 25% of
> the time gaining back SP, that isn't much a problem, especially if the
> fighter is spending 25% of his time getting back HP.

Somehow, I don't like this definition of "fun"...
But I admit I don't have many ideas of other definitions.

>   If a fighter has a tactic to defeat a monster and take no damage, that is
> no problem, as long as he can't do it a lot faster.  For example, right
> now, I suspect a figther using a bow could probably clear out so low level
> dungeons and not take any damage.  But I believe the bow is a slower way of
> killing things, so in the end, while it may be safer, he doesn't get a big
> advantage.

I'd rather see different classes meaning different tactics and possibly 
different time...

>   Likewise, if the player disappears or isn't around, the monster should
> have an affinity to head back to their home.

Monster IA should be much improved - just need to actually do that.

>   If not sure, I'd say just file a bug on the broken map, so at least it
> gets better recorded.  But this is also somewhat a balancing act - not
> doing anything because it may break things probably isn't the right
> approach for most any changes that may get made.

Many maps suffer the "no story just trash monsters" symptom, so breaking those 
wouldn't be too bad.

>   Creating a low level wall spell is reasonable - each could have different
> effects (borrowing from AD&D a bit here) -
<snipped spell descriptions>

Could be interesting, indeed!


Nicolas
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