[crossfire] Server map redo: movement types

[Mark Wedel]

Todd Mitchell wrote:
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      I think that we should treat flying differently than walk,swim, etc.  
     
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      Flying should have to be initiated by the player.  You can fly almost 
     
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      anywhere you could swim of walk so flying shouldn't be automatic.  If 
     
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      you move from ground to water you or back you would switch from walk to 
     
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      swim but you could fly (or jump) you over either.  If you are flying you 
     
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      can't pick up stuff, won't trigger buttons, etc. 
     
     
  Unless a race has native flying, the player would have to do something to 
start flying (wear those boots, ready the skill, cast a spell).

  The question was really want to do once that has happened.  Eg, player has 
applied the boots of levitation and now walks to a shop map, etc.


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      I also think that even players with fly ability shouldn't be able to fly 
     
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      all the time but only for a period of time (based on CON or STR and race 
     
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      or spell?).  Jumping would basically be flying for one turn.
     
     
  Certainly depends on how they are flying.

  Something like levitation boots obviously give you permanent flying.

  A spell does have a duration.

  Now for skills, trickier issue.  One could argue there could be something like 
a fatigue stat, and if you're too fatigued, have to stop using certain skills 
(like flying or other strenous stuff).  Actually, this idea has merit, so I'll 
start a different thread on fatigue.