[crossfire] Idea for skills

[Yann Chachkoff]

I don't really like that idea.

Sure, the intend - force people to explore the world furthermore - is good. 
But I see little justification of forcing them to make a given quest to 
increase their level. Arbitrarily capping the levels looks very artificial to 
me. 

On the other hand, I think that a similar principle (make some quests a "must 
do" to go further) could be used to unlock other quests and areas. Such a 
system would be easy to justify scenaristically-wise and would achieve the 
same result without artificially bending the skills/levels system, or 
requiring changes to the code.

It would mean that a geographical redistribution of the quests would have to 
be done at some point, and/or that "locks" would have to be put to prevent 
access to higher-level quests. 

But all this sounds like map-making job, which I see as a better (or 
cleaner ?) way to go than creating another special-case to rules in the code. 
I tend to think that the whole problem of people not exploring the world all 
comes down to the quests structure and locations: people don't explore 
because they have no reasons to do it, and because travelling without 
encountering anything is just plain boring. I'm far from being convinced that 
we'd solve that problem with another piece of code - I think that improving 
*maps* would lead to more satisfying solutions.

So, my opinion:
- No to artificial capping of levels;
- Yes to "capping" of quests and areas access, unlocking them by finishing 
some "key quests".

Le Samedi 26 Novembre 2005 15:47, Nicolas Weeger a écrit :
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      Hello.
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      Here's an idea concerning skills: add a "cap level without doing a quest".
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      For instance (levels are random numbers): a player could level up to 15
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      in one handed weapons. Then he'd need to complete a quest to be able to
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      get to 25, then another for 40, and so on.
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      The aim would be to force players to explore the world, to find those
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      quests to reach higher levels. Of course the quests should be designed
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      to be do-able with level ~15 / 25 / 40 one-handed weapon.
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      Ryo
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