[crossfire] Re: Server map redo: movement types

[Mark Wedel]

Lalo Martins wrote:
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      And so says Mark Wedel on 06/09/05 12:27...
     
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      In cases of impassable terrain (high mountains or something?), perhaps
     
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     take damage on landing, but once you have landed, should be OK.
     
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      If you're flying over impassable high mountains, and run out of juice,
     
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      you crash-land (taking damage).  Then, if you survive AND the eight
     
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      squares around you are all impassable, sorry, you're stuck.  Get some
     
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      rest till you can fly again, or cast town portal, or word of recall, or
     
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      dimension door.
     
     
  Yes - I agree.


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      On the other hand, it would probably be cool if one player was able to
     
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      carry another.  Then you could do a "rescue".  (Not to mention quite a
     
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      bit of other uses.)
     
     
  Arguably not really hard to do.  The biggest issue right now is that 
players/monsters blocking spaces is only way to attack them (something there, 
you have to attack it).

  One could make a strong case that at least with flying, people on the ground 
shouldn't block you - you're flying over them after all.

  I imagine the best way to handle carrying others would be some special command 
(grab ... and release ...)  or something - you could even use it on adjacant 
people and that moves them to your space.  Perhaps as a way to make sure it is a 
willing thing, only allow it if of the same party.

  I'd think multiple people on the same space also becomes an issue if/when 
transportation objects are added (boats being the main one) - should certainly 
be reasonable that several people can get in one of the bigger boats (only one 
would be the captain -  presumably the first one there).

  When that type of code is added, having players carry other playes would 
presuambly re-use it - the person carying the other is acting as the 
transportation objects - just in this case, the player being carried does have 
any choice of where he is going.