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February 17, 2005

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 12:54 am
by kiri
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IDEAS -- feel free to comment on these!


Piton: if you trip a mob, they should not be able to flee immediately in the next
round

Xer: avatar chat?
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Xer: its too easy for you to get to black hole in clocktower, why dosent the boss at
the top (after the dragon) should have a key - will make it a bit more challenging...

Jatproco: change the system so heroes arent so seperated from mortals. Lots of mortals
dont help noobs becuase they're restricted IMO
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Extreemist: why not give healers the ability to cure drunk

Xer: if you track something, and have the trigger so you move automatically, can you make
it so you dont get booted if something is more than 20 of one direction?

AMystery: undead mob parts need to be timed. so that the head of tiggy doesn't hang around
for weeks and clutter up an area


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The Fact Of Life
1. The 2 most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
2. If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
3. Money can't buy happiness. But it sure makes misery easier to live with.
5. Psychiatrists say that 1 of 4 people are mentally ill. Check three friends. If they're OK, you're it.
6. Nothing in the known universe travels faster than a bad check.
8. It has recently been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
9. Always remember to pillage BEFORE you burn.
10. If you are given an open-book exam, you will forget your book.
11. COROLLARY: If you are given a take-home test, you will forget where you live.
12. The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.
13. It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
14. Sky's Law: You can't fall off the floor.
15. The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.
17. Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by moving from where you left them to where you can't find them.
19. Poker rules supplement: A .44 Magnum beats 4 aces.
20. I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.
21. Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.
23. Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it.
24. Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.
25. I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe.
26. He's not dead, He's electroencephalographically challenged.
27. She's always late. Her ancestors arrived on the Juneflower.
28. You have the right to remain silent....Anything you say will be misquoted, then used against you.
29. I wonder how much deeper would the ocean be without sponges.
30. Honk if you love peace and quiet.
31. Pardon my driving, I am reloading.
32. Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how it remains so popular?
33. Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
34. Diplomacy is saying "nice doggy" until you find a rock.
35. A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
36. Save the whales. Collect the whole set.
37. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
38. On the other hand, you have different fingers.
39. Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 4:27 am
by disaster
replies:

Piton: if you trip a mob, they should not be able to flee immediately in the next round
-i'm not sure they do this in the first place, but if they do i'd expect that things like this might be reworked once trip is fixed up in regards to underwater rooms?

Xer: avatar chat?
-blech. already people don't chat enough and hide out in herochat instead. the only use for avatarchat that i can see if to talk behind the backs of certain heroes, and if you want ot do that so badly then you can go through the effort of using tell or mtell. mtell aliases aren't too hard ot set up, if you read the helps.
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Xer: its too easy for you to get to black hole in clocktower, why dosent the boss at the top (after the dragon) should have a key - will make it a bit more challenging...
-i'd put this one down to area builder's discretion. is it really enough of a big deal to worry about? *shrug*

Jatproco: change the system so heroes arent so seperated from mortals. Lots of mortals
dont help noobs becuase they're restricted IMO
-hunh?? explanation please. i can understand heroes not wanting to help noobs who are no longer level 1, since it's such a huge pain in the ass not being able to follow them, but for mortals i don't see how they're restricted. oh, and not to be a pain, but i will re-suggest that heroes be allowed to follow mortals up to level 5. there are a lot of noobs who still need help until then, and having to follow them around room by room is a huge pain in the ass.
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Extreemist: why not give healers the ability to cure drunk
-because that would defeat the whole purpose of having negative effects to drunkeness? if such a cure existed, it would have ot be so prohibitively expensive for game balance that it would be cheaper to heal mana instead. best solution: drink less, or drink something less alcoholic

Xer: if you track something, and have the trigger so you move automatically, can you make
it so you dont get booted if something is more than 20 of one direction?
-one letter commands don't cause you to be booted, so change your trigger to use n e s w u d instead of north east south west up down

AMystery: undead mob parts need to be timed. so that the head of tiggy doesn't hang around
for weeks and clutter up an area
-not a bad idea, though i'd prefer it if it was a builder option instead of a universal change. in fact, it would be really nice if more control could be had over undead parts in many respects, for instance which of the original mob's characteristics are inherited by undead parts. oh, and speaking of undead parts, currently the messages that are given are a little out of whack, you might get a message saying an arm has been lopped off, but in fact it was a head that was created. *shrug* thought i'd mention it while i was thinking of it