[crossfire] Idea for skills

[Mark Wedel]

Nicolas Weeger wrote:
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      Btw, it could be used for "secondary" skills (alchemy, woodsman, ...)
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      skills only, not main combat ones. This way no penalty for
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      fighters/wizards, just for players wanting to do other things than combat :)
     
  But I then wonder if an actual cap on exp/skills is needed, or if it would be 
good enough to give exp bonuses in specific skills for specific quests.

  You could see a grandmaster of alchemy saying something like 'fetch me .... 
and I'll teach you more about alchemy', and if the player does so, he gets an 
exp reward.  And make the reward good enough that it is worth it for players to 
do the quest vs sitting in their apartment trying to make things (this would 
obviously be based on the difficulty of quest - low level quests would give 
little exp, more difficult quests more exp).

  some, like I mention above, could be pretty easily done (you really just need 
to put that alchemist in the town, and perhaps modify some existing maps to 
include the special items he wants.  A simple example could be him wanting the 
heart of the goblin chief - thats just modifying that map to have both a heart 
and head of the chief).

  Other cases could be shrines/altars which when applied give the reward.  These 
can thus be put in dungeons.  I think this would actually add a little more 
interest - a lot of the maps are really only 1 dimensional, in that you are 
going the map for some specific purpose, and that's it.  Doing a map and finding 
it has an alchemist laboratory and you get bonus exp would sort of add that 'oh, 
that's cool' type of thing since you may not have been expecting it.

  That said, I don't think there is any built in mechanism within the game to 
give exp rewards?  You can do it via plugin of course, but wonder if putting it 
in the core server would make it used more.