[crossfire] Finding maps and their location, moving around

[Nicolas Weeger]

Hello.

I think one issue in the game is that many maps aren't easy to find or even to 
know that they exist.


Cases in point: three sisters valley, warrior's tower, castle Samorok, whaling 
output, things like that.

Merely being in town won't give much information, and if you start exploring 
the world, you'll take many days of randomly wandering...



For some, quests could be added so the player at least knows the map exist and 
is reminded to try to locate them. May be be "chaining" quests, that is when 
you complete one quest, some NPCs start giving hints on other quests?


About finding the maps, I see actually 2 issues, finding the maps the first time, 
then finding them again if you want to do them again.


The first time may incur some searching around the world, which isn't that fun 
considering that not much happens, and blocking mountains are a real pain...


Once found, it'll be the same issue when the player wants to find again the map 
- even if s.he remembers approximately the location, it's a pain to find 
again...


I added a long time ago a "GPS"-like system, that enabled to get back to one 
specific spot in the world map, but it isn't available anywhere. Should this be 
activated so players can easily find again some points in the world? Should we 
add "rough" maps that would guide players towards some location?


Should we invent some form of permanent portal, that a player could build in 
her/his apartments, then add destinations by being at the desired spot in the 
world maps? Something like town portal, but more permanent... Of course 
there's always the issue that it probably needs to be a high-costing item that 
would be really useful for low-level players... :s


Opinions? Ideas? Thoughts?


Best regards


Nicolas
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 195 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
URL: <http://mailman.metalforge.org/pipermail/crossfire/attachments/20210530/6a974110/attachment.sig>