Crossfire Forum

One other thing I've seen is to make improving some skills detract from other skills and/or have skills slowly decay over time. That way, to have a character that stays good at everything, one has to use everything evenly and on a regular basis. Which almost nobody does.

The simple way to balance this would be just to make the experience tables somewhat inverse. Make the first few levels of a skill take a large amount of experience to get started, then have it drop off to practically nothing and work back from there. Then start a new player with a few levels of ...

I got this idea because I play Nethack a lot when I'm not online, and I really like the whole, "you can do almost anything" part of it. Wands and staves are, at the moment, practically useless. Everyone just carries rods which don't run out of charges.

Scrolls should probably just burn up 99.9% of ...

As it currently stands, I can burn up, break, freeze, or otherwise destroy lots of magical items without any sideeffects whatsoever. I think it would be interesting if destroying scrolls, wands, staves, rods, potions, dusts, et cetra would sometimes trigger whatever effect those items had. eg ...

Since there are now personal permanent apartments, would it be possible to make the permanent lockers change their keys when they're not used for a while? Currently there are no keys left, which is aggravating when one is trading stacks of supplies that are too heavy to mail with someone who is ...

Just give them a maximum weight limit of like 10. This would allow them to maniuplate small things, but not to carry lots of stuff. Perhaps set their maximum strength to like 2 or 3 or so... But make up for it with enhanced spellcasting abilities, no need to eat, and resistance to physical attack.

Another possibility would be to make it so that you can tell how badly hurt a monster is by looking at them, and then make it so that the probe spell tells other things, like regen rate, mana level, maybe stats...

Personally I find it kind of lame that you can be beating on a monster and have no ...

Just a thought, but if there were some people out there who were really good at scripting, they might be able to put together some kind of quest that uses client bots for NPCs... Which could then be made to do all sorts of interesting things without straining the server too much....

Though it would require nearly a total rewrite of the current system, it would also be interesting to make a "dynamic alchemy" where almost anything could be mixed with almost anything, and rather than fixed recipes it calculates the results from the properties of the ingredients and the skill of ...

I actually use the brace command quite a lot. It's really nice when you're doing something like holding a bunch of monsters at a doorway and don't want to end up rushing into the middle of them. Or when you're bashing down a door and don't want to end up running into the room when it gives way.