Open DarkRisings opened 7 years ago
trseagro
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7 years ago I am thinking the wild and shadow planes would be places where Tyrin and Syrin have had their way with things. We need better names though. What they shouldn't be is heaven and hell. Both places could have entire cities inhabiting the spaces of other locations on our map.
trseagro
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7 years ago IF I haven't said it yet. I am not asking nor suggesting we build a duplicate of every room and area into the game as alternate planes. I am suggesting that we start with a handful of rooms linked into key places as a proof of concept. Long term a person could expand the concept or link entire new areas off of these elemental pathways.
Moving discussion on this to here. @trseagro
Imagine if every room in the game had the potential of six more "hidden" directions: Shadow, Wild, Fire, Earth, Air, and Water.
These directions plus a seventh, prime, would have their vnum saved in the room information.
We would then have to develop some room and sector tags to truly have fun with this.
A new skill to sense flags on a room, and a new spell to identify if a room will allow a caster to open a path to these planes would have to be developed. Then some sort of skill or spell would be created to "open" the door to this other plane. An alternate approach would be for a "gate" to be loaded passing to that room's vnum.
With the exception of the wild and shadow rooms, these places would be horrible places for the average player to go. But individual rooms or even entire areas could be there. You could then link rooms and such.
So if you were familiar with the D&D form of shadow step, where you basically walk through the plane of shadows turning a five day journey into a five hour journey.
The average player would have no idea what rooms and areas exist in the game currently, so there would always be an element of mystery to it. As far as building these things go: we could either duplicate afiles and change the vnums using find replace in the text file, or the a builder could hand build an area.
The amount of actual coding to implement this is entirely dependent on how much different we want things. We can "build" something like this now with the code we have, but it is clunky. I have seen some really cool things done with code to work this out in other places.