[Topic Split] World Transportion, Locations & Methods

cavesomething · Post by **cavesomething** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 2:36 am

The 'nice' way to handle ships would be to make there be a ship map and maybe have them be a little (but not too) dangerous to sail in.

Think maybe a 20x100 square stretch of water that the boat would chug through, then have storms which rock the ship & waves that do cold damage, and shark/giant squid attacks, and pirates and alien abductions (well, ok, maybe not alien abductions, but still, you get the idea).

I like the town crier idea though, I even have a vague idea how it could be implemented....

Mith · Post by **Mith** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:08 am

cavesomething wrote:The 'nice' way to handle ships would be to make there be a ship map and maybe have them be a little (but not too) dangerous to sail in.

Think maybe a 20x100 square stretch of water that the boat would chug through, then have storms which rock the ship & waves that do cold damage, and shark/giant squid attacks, and pirates and alien abductions (well, ok, maybe not alien abductions, but still, you get the idea).

no, that would be unfair. taking damage without being able to do anything about it

cavesomethingelse · Post by **cavesomethingelse** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:50 am

I was thinking more something that would be like a slow moving bolt spell, that you would be able to see them coming and run for cover, so that you would get to play dodge the waves. (and maybe also get to play with the pumps, to get water out of the ship?) Ideally also this would be tied into the weather code, so that the sky value would be 'chance of storm' so that travelling would become more hazardous in the winter, and less so in the summer etc.

I also want to extend the weather system at some point though, smooth out some of its quirks and model el nino (after 3 years of undergrad physics, crossfire's weather model is the /only/ use I have found for the stuff I have been studying).

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 1:09 pm

good idea, but theres already a wave prayer granted by Ix. that also means Ix will get resrected. that also brings up a new topic split: not worshiping 2 gods, but bieng able to sacrafice to other gods. like if you want to cross the sea safer, but not worship Ix, you can offer a fire elemental to Ix until you get "favored." you could also get more "favor" with your god offering enimies body parts. so there would be Ix shrines at all the ports to offer for a safe trip, before and after...