hall of selection

bencha · Post by **bencha** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 1:07 pm

hey, who stole the no class exit ?
i'd like to play a gnome with his original face, but we can't do it anymore

cavesomething · Post by **cavesomething** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 2:13 pm

it is certainly still in my local copies of the maps, and there are no recent changes in CVS.

Maybe it is a customisation made by your server admin?

bencha · Post by **bencha** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 3:09 pm

no, it's on metalforge. there's no more exit. or maybe behind the wall, but it's not a breakable wall.

Website · Post by **Leaf** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 7:19 pm

bencha wrote:no, it's on metalforge. there's no more exit

I removed the exit due to the number of problems and the amount of time it took to resolve/troubleshoot problems for players who would use the teleporter and then complain about not having any/some skills, etc.

bort · Post by **bort** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 9:16 pm

Perhaps a better way is to have a magic mouth quiz you on whether you wanted no class, and if you got all Questions right, it'd open, let your thorugh, and close. Then there would be no liability or problems, as it would be all the players fault.

Leaf- I can add that into the hall. Would you like that instead?

Website · Post by **Leaf** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 9:53 pm

The reason for the teleporter existing in the first place, on occasion when a player would die or word of recall they would end up back in the Hall Of Selection. The only way out was to pick the same class again and end up with duplicate skills or some people would pick a different class (sometimes, repeatedly) and end up with nearly all the game skills for free.

Now with the Nexus, players return there instead - so the exit was a feature that should have been removed a long time ago.

bort wrote: Perhaps a better way is to have a magic mouth quiz you on whether you wanted no class, and if you got all Questions right, it'd open, let your thorugh, and close. Then there would be no liability or problems, as it would be all the players fault.

Leaf- I can add that into the hall. Would you like that instead?

This is probably best proposed to the development mailing list.

bencha · Post by **bencha** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 3:25 am

ok for skills, you can't start with find/disarm traps but there is scrolls, but i haven't seen a scroll of use magic item.

it's sad to have a gnome (dwarf ...) perso that you can't use out of the hall. after, everybody - except big beast - looks like a human.

cavesomething · Post by **cavesomething** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 10:51 am

well, I guess you could have a new class 'journeyman' say, that didn't have a face associated with it....

bort · Post by **bort** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 7:24 pm

Then for journeyman class, have random skills assigned?

cavesomething · Post by **cavesomething** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 9:21 pm

ooh, that could be interesting, although I suspect that if my luck in such matters was to hold true to form I would end up with oratory, but not singing, disarm traps, but not find traps, lockpicking and hiding.