elementals

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 4:46 pm

we have a fire elemental, pip is trying to add a cold elemental, what about making elementals for the rest of the elements? this would probably involve making the character selection area like the class area, so you dont need to page through 20 other races to find the one you want. also would make it easier to choose the elemental for the element you want, and also a good way the dragons can choose the element they want to start focusing in.

cavesomething · Post by **cavesomething** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 11:57 am

I'd be more inclined to have a system of races and subraces selectable client side.

so the client would connect to the server and say
requestinfo races
the server would respond
replyinfo races
###:human
###:elf
###:dwarf

etc (where ### is the face number)

then the client could present the list to the player to choose between.

If there are subraces then, these would be shown in a similar way.
dragon would have fire, cold, poison, etc
elemental would have fire, cold, etc
human would have human and northman

possibly a couple of others would be grouped together as well.

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 11:53 pm

good idea, but i think it would be easier if it where laid out like the hero selection on warcraft herowars maps. you walk the isles, and pick the area you want, then the race, such as agility > humaniod > elf > swashbuckler

Mith · Post by **Mith** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:16 am

come on, stop comparing CrossFire with (world of) warcraft please!
We don't have to copy all the features that game has, not even the ones someone likes.

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:33 pm

ive never played world or warcraft, this is plain warcraft 3 hero war maps.

if its a good idea, why not use it? following that train of thought, we could get rid of hobbits as many games also use those...

cavesomething · Post by **cavesomething** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 12:34 am

The key issue is that crossfire /should/ allow the creation of individually unique characters, not just one of 20-something predefined 'heroes' where there are about 3 that are good choices, and the rest all suck (but there is no one to tell me which is which, so I always pick arbitrarily - I case you couldn't guess, I'm not a DOTA fan)

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 1:34 am

lol, theyre ok, but i prefer hero wars and areanas, with the choice of 50 some heros. you get quite a range of selection.