Room to room combat

[ZLemur]

Is this possible?

Forgive me if it's been mentioned before, but would be kinda neat to be able to shoot arrows into an adjacent room at a high penalty. Or throw a mug or something in another room to generate a 'you hear movement to the north' type of event and throw of persuers....or something.

[The Crazy Animal]

Its possible wheelmud was doing this last I heard but it also brings up some questions of should a monster charge into the room that it was shot from...

Their big argument when they were doing it was:

say the king is a room away and your standing in an adjacent room and you move to attack the king should that guard attack you or will he even know what your shooting at. The guard could assume your shooting at the king but what if your shooting at a guy named bob thats already attacking the king. what then? I think they left off with he just knows and left it at that.

TCA

[ZLemur]

Or just make it at such a high pealty that it's not really worth it. Could be used just for for dragging monsters out of a stacked room, but a monster that's assigned to protect someone/something won't leave the room.

[The Crazy Animal]

Maybe make the difficulty a little greater but thats about it..

TCA

[DeathCow]

It be cool, but all and all it end up changing a huge amount of the games mechanics for what would end up just being an annoying way to hang scripts.

[The Crazy Animal]

heheh I would so abuse that, now that you mentioned it.. :)

TCA

[ZLemur]

didn't even think of that. nevermind then lol

[DeathCow]

Laugh..there is a huge series of thread about this on metro's forum.  Locke cole liked the idea, but since he did seem to have an issue with being 'nice' thread he posted heavily in tended to get locked. :p

[The Crazy Animal]

grin, I haven't been checking metro's forum much in the last couple of years...

[lumikant]

if you want to see an amazing implimentation of room to room combat, check out Awakemud at awakenedworlds.net

They have firearms, bows and arrows, grenades, knives etc all coded.

[DeathCow]

I dont want to see it...anyone else?

[lumikant]

I dont particularly either, but if people were interested in how it could be implimented, thats a perfect example.

[The Crazy Animal]

I think it would be a good thing for maybe an archer class but not for everyone..

TCA

[ZLemur]

I'd like to formally retract this thread and the idea contained within.

No further comment.

[The Crazy Animal]

grin hehe