> Hello. > > I'm wondering whether it'd be nice or not to have some "main quests", maybe > related (like Scorn's nobility quest), that would enable a player to level > through them. > > The idea being that instead of leveling, one would do the quests, and level > almost like a side-effect. > > Of course that'd require quite some work to rebalance things, and write > many quests. > > Especially since one can imagine quests forbidding to do others, > variations, and thus. > > How does that feel?
It sounds like an intriguing way to bolster the game play experience for people who aren't as much in to the hack/slash/grind. It also sounds like a lot of work, though probably not the kind of work that makes balancing the rest of the game harder, so probably not a big deal. Conceptually this kind of thing could feed a class... dunno... bard, adventurer, or something, and the class could make one of the less used races more valuable by having pluses to questing (vs fighting or magic, etc.). Then again, I'm not sure the recent half-way done "balancing" and adding new features is the way to go with crossfire. There seems to be a lot of new code but little follow through that may not really do much for the game. There seems to be a huge split in whether people actually want to play "trunk" over "branch". It might do the project good to figure out why people have trouble with trunk and work on resolving those things. I'm not saying that working this kind of enhancement is bad per se. It could be a way to actually put into use some of the features added over the past few years. It does, however, seem important to at least mull over the problem of why branch seems to be preferred by a segment of the game-playing population. I think I'm much more for this than for a lot more sweeping changes to established crossfire characteristics that are very hard to balance for fun and whatever else. _______________________________________________ crossfire mailing list crossfire@metalforge.org http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire