In that case it would make sense to make a big noobie map, with buildings, each of which contains a course to do some thing. If each of these noobie maps was personal to the player, the players could learn about playing cf without anyone else spoiling their fun. This would also enable them to come back later to complete learning if they can not be bothered with advanced stuff just yet. I propose each building award the player some experience towards the skill at the end to make it worthwhile.
These are the general buildings I can think of: - Basics 1: Moving, applying things, reading signs, notes, etc. - Basics 2: Wearing, equipping, making active, opening/closing, marking, 'body command - Basics 3: Changing/learning skills, commands like 'statistics, 'skills, experience system - Traps 1: Finding/disarming traps (on the floor, in doors, on chests) - Traps 2: Setting traps - Melee combat 1: Attack things with punching/karate/etc. - Melee combat 2: If you can hold a weapon, how to use it to do things in 1, run attack - Ranged combat 1: How to pick up and equip bow, arrows, and shoot - Ranged combat 2: bowmode and arrow quivers - Spell casting 1: How to see what spells you have, select a spell you have, and fire a spell. - Spell casting 2: Learning new spells, types of spells (schools), sp requirement, spell level. - Spell casting 3: Different kinds of spells (cone/bolt/etc) and casting them - Identifying: List different ways of identify items - Healing: List different ways of healing different things - Alchemy: How to use alchemy-like things - Stealing: How to steal ...and possibly a few more buildings for things like oratory, climbing, jumping, literacy (scroll making?). Then there could be specific houses for the races like dragons explaining the whole food/focus thing, a house for firebournes explaining the whole "you are a ball of fire, don't get put out" thing, and a house for wraith explaining "You are dead - you don't digest food or heal" (when I make the patch balanced enough to be applied to the source tree) thing. _______________________________________________ crossfire mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire
