[crossfire] skill/class cost table

[Mark Wedel]

On 10/21/11 09:54 AM, Nicolas Weeger wrote:

>>> Seems interesting, yes. For spells, something like increased range, or
>>> why not having the "fire all around you instead of a cone" be an ability
>>> too?
>>
>>    Actually, you can do that right now - just fire in direction 0.
>
> My proposal of course implied to remove that feature for spells, unless you
> have the matching ability :)
>
> After all, firing in all directions at the same time isn't that easy to do, is
> it?

  True.  There could also be modifications for other spells - maybe at some 
level, you get a 'split bolt' ability, so when cast, you get a triple wide bolt 
(split would suggest 2, but with the aligning of spaces, that would be a 
headache to know what other space it goes down).

  Such an ability may increase casting time and increase mana cost, but things 
like that could be done.

  Instead of 360° cones, maybe also have something that allows 180° cones 
instead of the current 90° cones.

>
>
>>    For spells, since there are already a lot of them, I'm not as concerned
>> about tweaking them.  But for many of the other skills, abilities need to
>> be determined.
>
> There are too many, even... Especially redundant ones (small, medium and large
> variants).

  Yep - I know revamping spells has been suggested to remove the variants.  One 
could boil it down to the basic - bolt, cone, ball.  Now one might still need 
the different elements (fire, ice, lightning, earth) just to tie properly to 
skills, having small/medium/large varieties of each may not be needed.  Perhaps 
at some level, being able to do 'medium ball' spells is an ability that is 
learned, and applies to all ball spells you may do - that reduces number of 
spells somewhat.

  I'd have to think how to do it, but perhaps chaos versions require a minimal 
level in all the different elements (since you are mixing them).

  This goes a bit beyond the initial skill system - the new skill system may 
make it easier to do these features.  But my higher priority is getting the 
combat skills sorted out.


  As an aside, I'm thinking of setting up an arch & server branch for this (the 
maps really should not need changing on this).  My main thought is that this is 
going to be a pretty radical change in how things work for players, and so 
servers probably need some time to adjust (and probably some time is needed just 
to balance this out before going live on servers).

  Now I could work to make it so that both skill systems are available in the 
same code base, and by tweaking config values, you get one or the other, but 
long term, this is a big enough change, there is no way both can be supported. 
And in many ways, cleaning up the code now makes sure the code gets cleaned up, 
vs putting it off to some point in the future.