Abandoned Codex

[Vicks]

The peaceful idea is a great idea. Die peacefuls die!

[Norik]

[neq]

[21001] Maxim: clerics should get sagacity, they are magic users, and theyre prime stat IS wisdom...


I really think clerics should get sagacity, since i don't think we have any spells that affect the base stats

[neq]

how about post another idea list, Also I like to thank you G for putting in a lot of those ideas.

[garn]

[neq]

hey for clerics how about for like a second attack for magic it just be some spell that casts automatically all the time, it can be something week like magic missle, or umm umm dispel evil. But it casts by itself it uses up mana .... oh wait i bet that would suck cause .... Know what G you don't have to put in the ability for clerics to cast more than one spell a round, plus how would I type it. There fore how about giving us poor and few clerics a few of those mage spells that can change me from a pleveling cleric to a Twinking cleric

hehe

[garn]

Alright, a few more ideas came to mind, and since I know of no better place to put them, I'll put them here.

1) Area Exploration: Ah, the plight of making an area and then no-one wants to visit it. But why? Someone's heart and soul wen into that area, but no-one so much as enters it. From my perspective it boils down to a few specific reasons:
A) Any unexplored area can be quite dangerous, and exploring it may result in immediate death. For example: The hapless newbie who decides to do some exploration in the area of New Ofcol, taking a southernly route and winding up getting killed by the guard outside Sludig's Keep. Such a thing happening while just strolling about tends to reduce the want to explore.
B) Everything you want/need is in places that you know you can get to. For low-levels like myself, this amounts to exp. and by travelling to a few well known locations can get that with out much hassle. Instead of having to go looking for exp, I only have to run to The Battlergrounds, Dwarven Daycare, Shattered Refuge, The Galaxy, Wargs, and so-on and so-forth. Needing only to visit those areas reduces the chance I'll go and explore.
C) Death. This is the overriding reason not to do much exploration. When you die, you lose exp. and your eq. leaving you with your gold. If you happened to waltz into a place over your heaand get slain by an aggro mob, unless you have help, you can kiss you eq goodbye. There are ways around this of course, but unless you have access to those options, you're out your eq. Now, this is not a tremendous loss if you're able to replace said eq. However, if a good portion of your eq requires you to slay mobs, there is a good chance that you will be unable to retrive your eq on your own.

With these reasons in mind, it becomes very apparent why exploration is somewhat of a no-no. But these can be easily combated. To make a place less dangerous to the hapless explorer, keep the barrier to entry close to the level of the lowest aggro mob, or make sure to place forebodding; walking into what appears to be a happy litttle town and finding out it's a nest of bloodthirsty demons is not nessacarily the most fun. Walking into an abandoned town with several recently torched houses, however, is likely to raise a few red flags. To reduce the possibility of someone playing in their favorite areas and not exploring, their favorite areas need to be changed, making uncharted areas at least as enticing, if not moreso. And lastly, to make death less of a blow, make replacement eq readily avalible. Not the best eq, mind you, but enough to get back on your feet. Like shops selling medium strength eq for about every ten levels. Using these tactics implores people to step out of their safe havens and out into the world.

2) Gold, The Economy, and You. Everyone seems to have more than enough gold to cover their expenses. Which makes it hard to sell powerful things in shops without screwing up the balance. How does one combat this? By having the shops sell things worth buying. Currently--from my perspective--there are only a few things worth buying: scrolls of detect invisible, a bag of meat to keep my self from starving, and spells from the healer. Other than this, there isn't much worth spending my gold on. So, how do you get people to spend their hard earned gold? Buy selling things worth buy. For example, when I'm fighting in wargs, I often wish I had a simple potion of cure poison, so fight Mama Warg doesn't mean an immediate trip back to town. I know this would be a major money sink for me, as I would buy them in bulk untill they are no longer useful to me. Things along those lines, items that are consumable and useful are good ways to reclaim some gold.

Well, that's enough text for now. I'll come up with more things to say later.

Garn

[Gareth]

[garn]

Thanks for responding, I was hoping that my thoughts might be heard.

[neq]

can different mud clients be offered to be downloaded from this site? or atleast links posted to where noobs can get pueblo or gmud or anything like that

[Nightblade]

[Gareth]

http://www.abandonedcodex.net/pblo201.exe - original pueblo
http://pueblo.sourceforge.net/pueblo/index.php - Pueblo UE

[Shadowkaun]

Mmmm ok so i know it was brought up before on this thread, but is anything gonna happen with the houses in Pentir? Would you want Builders to create houses for people etc? I think this is a great idea that would be a cool thing for people to have fun with. I mean you could buy through gold/qp/quest i dont know, i just think it would be a great thing to have on the mud. And i know i would be willing to build some basic layouts and people can add things to them etc etc.. Or maybe have a company IC that would build houses and such.. Just throwinig out some of my ideas....

Shadizzle

ps. I really really liked the whole peacefuls dieing idea.. o well

[Gareth]

More details to be posted on the av2 boards.
(av2 boards to be created once I'm not on telnet any more)

[neq]

no fair I can't read the av2 board