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(Message started by: Stride on 05/27/03 at 19:13:34)
Title: Mass Transport
Post by Stride on 05/27/03 at 19:13:34
        My idea is mass transport.  Where crits go in a train, airplane or subway.  They use this to go to different towns, without getting pked.  Like going from Nightmist to Blackthorn.
Also this will have a fee as usual.
   
 Hope you like the idea, and if you want to join my clan page or memo Stride,
                             
                               Stride
Title: Re: Mass Transport
Post by newb on 05/27/03 at 19:15:52
This sounds like the teleport room idea, except reworded to sound like something else. It has been discussed before and the deciding answer from JLH has been "No".
Title: Re: Mass Transport
Post by Lady_Maha on 05/27/03 at 20:04:40
That would take all the fun out of lagging all your crits through the sewers.  ;)
Title: Re: Mass Transport
Post by Bean on 05/28/03 at 01:38:16
Or just NOT make it so that it takes you directly to your destination in a split second.

Just make it walk your characters to the other town, BUT at a faster speed than you would regularly be able to. This would still make it so people would be able to be pked, ALSO It would help newbs map thier way to a new town *Of course they would have to fight for awhile in those arenas for the lets say 1k gold needed*

You could also make it stop at certain places to pick people up, so it would stop on certain squares.

You would have to make this something like riding a dragon or a carriage or something like that, then program a 'Carriage' Monster that would be running around with your party. You could then have people ATTACK the carriage killing it, which would cause all the people on the ride to stop with it *most likely dieing.*

This would be a pretty cool thing as people could coordinate attacks on the carriage and kill it gaining all the money the people have payed to it for rides. *As well as some pks :P*



Sound cool?
Title: Re: Mass Transport
Post by JLH on 05/28/03 at 02:02:44
monsters can be told to move by themselves and follow routes, so i could make it so that you can follow a monster from specific places (ie the places where it stops to let people 'join' it). i'll code it, if other staff are keen on it, and pandilex is ok with the idea.
Title: Re: Mass Transport
Post by Bean on 05/28/03 at 02:39:27
Of course when it stopped it would need a command to give it the money and it invites you to its party or something wouldnt it?

It would also need to broadcast a message every time it stopped. Lol I can just see it coming onto the square, staying there for like 15 seconds then leaving and everyone is like 'What the heck was is supposed to do to take that?' lol.
Title: Re: Mass Transport
Post by Stotic on 05/28/03 at 03:22:38
with a fee I wouldn't mind it.  I'm thinking 2000.  Possibly horses.
Title: Re: Mass Transport
Post by InsaneNinjaPhreak on 05/28/03 at 03:31:04
omg! horsies!! lmao, I'd love to have a horse in-game..don't care if it cost me money either.
Title: Re: Mass Transport
Post by Bean on 05/28/03 at 04:16:49
Yeah stotic a fee would be a must, We cant have the old teleport houses comin back.

Oh and It should be 1k from nightmist to arilin, seeing as its all a man made road to the two and they are both in a sense starting towns.

But travelling to and from any other towns should cost 2k.  :)
Title: Re: Mass Transport
Post by -Gaddy- on 05/28/03 at 07:02:12
would it be moving at a pace where i could...i dunno..take an arch fighter and some other crits and just kill everything as we passed?...and would i be allowed to kill other people riding the ponies? would i be allowed to kill the conductor?..it'd be kind of like how the buffalos got wiped out if i were allowed to kill all leeches (or orcs and trolls going from bt to sarka) while we just ride past on a train...these are just my ?s since i dont entirly understand.
Title: Re: Mass Transport
Post by Rattlesnake on 05/28/03 at 11:43:58
I don't know why but this just popped in my head, What ever happened to the Tax Collector?? I haven't seen him in ages.
Title: Re: Mass Transport
Post by JLH on 05/28/03 at 16:15:37
tax collector annoyed pandilex, so it disappeared.
Title: Re: Mass Transport
Post by Sera on 05/28/03 at 16:35:56
The tax collector annoyed a lot of people, myself included. I was happy to see it go!!  I hope he died a long, painful, terrible death!!  :D
Title: Re: Mass Transport
Post by Jurian on 05/28/03 at 16:53:51
just wondering here but hmm wouldn't this be useless? it takes like 30 secs to move from one town to another or less. why pay 2k if you can move from one place to another really fast withouth having much chance of getting killed because you move really fast?
Title: Re: Mass Transport
Post by Mordakai on 05/28/03 at 17:34:22
Good for lazy people like me ;D
Title: Re: Mass Transport
Post by newb on 05/28/03 at 19:18:03
So how would this work? Would it somehow invite you into a party and drag you around? Would it just go square by square and you follow it? The whole idea doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
Title: Re: Mass Transport
Post by Stotic on 05/28/03 at 22:51:38
NPC interaction
Title: Re: Mass Transport
Post by newb on 05/28/03 at 23:18:13
Would you mind defining that for us who aren't so knowledgable in the monster area?
Title: Re: Mass Transport
Post by Bean on 05/29/03 at 03:30:40
You follow it around as it pulls you to the next town/Place

It would move a bit faster than 'pkable speed', And yeah you could kill the 'conductor', That has been said already.

Jurian, There are people who cant move as fast as you, Your just unhumanly good at controlling like 300 characters and moving them all. Your just special  ;)
Title: Re: Mass Transport
Post by Pandilex on 05/29/03 at 19:42:24
My decision is no, I prefer people to walk around.. you're just getting lazy :-p
Title: Re: Mass Transport
Post by Stotic on 05/29/03 at 19:45:26
No reason to argue that.  I stand quite neutral to the idea, but a little more against it.
Title: Re: Mass Transport
Post by Bean on 05/29/03 at 23:59:08
Make it really expensive then, Its only for people that dont know the way really.


Edit:Pandilex can you walk over to my house? I live in alberta near a place called red deer.
Title: Re: Mass Transport
Post by Sera on 05/30/03 at 00:50:48
If you don't know how to get somewhere, there are things called maps. You can find them on the site, not only under the Maps by Samus, but also in the clan/fan sites...

I spent most my first months being taken everywhere. I had a lvl 30 and couldn't even get to BT. Finally I got out the maps, and wrote down the directions. Take time to explore...you need to learn the areas rather than have someone/thing take you everywhere so you don't end up as dependent as I was.

I'm totally against this idea. I have been since the beginning...there is no point to it. It's not THAT hard to get from place to place.
Title: Re: Mass Transport
Post by newb on 05/30/03 at 00:56:39

on 05/29/03 at 19:42:24, Pandilex wrote:
My decision is no, I prefer people to walk around.. you're just getting lazy :-p


I find this quite amusing because you just TP everywhere.
Title: Re: Mass Transport
Post by King o Sausage on 05/30/03 at 00:58:51

on 05/30/03 at 00:56:39, newb wrote:
I find this quite amusing because you just TP everywhere.


I find this quite amusing because he is just staff...
Title: Re: Mass Transport
Post by Predator on 05/30/03 at 01:20:46

on 05/30/03 at 00:58:51, King o Sausage wrote:

I find this quite amusing because he is just staff...



You are quite annoying arent you?

hes trying to say, pan can TP, we have to walk, we have reason to be lazy.
Title: Re: Mass Transport
Post by newb on 05/30/03 at 01:28:52
Yeah, well stated Predator.

Pandilex: Stop being such lazy people!

Pandilex teleports away.

Hilarious...
Title: Re: Mass Transport
Post by Sera on 05/30/03 at 04:40:08
Well he can't tp on his morts...he has to walk just like the rest of us...quit yer whining and walk.
Title: Re: Mass Transport
Post by Melchior on 06/01/03 at 14:32:51
yeh...cool like wagons or something...and they cost a little bit would be cool right. (airplanes?)
Title: Re: Mass Transport
Post by Specter on 06/01/03 at 15:14:47

on 05/30/03 at 04:40:08, Sera wrote:
Well he can't tp on his morts...he has to walk just like the rest of us...quit yer whining and walk.


Maybe if you quit kissing staffs ass, we would quit whining.

I'm up for this idea, so what if people are lazy and don't know the way, if they want to waste some gold everytime they want to go anywhere, then let them.

Edit: if you'll excuse me, i'm off to delete my forum account.
Title: Re: Mass Transport
Post by Bobbity on 06/06/03 at 17:18:17
Pandilex has morts??
Title: Re: Mass Transport
Post by Stotic on 06/06/03 at 18:15:35
You'd think that after over 2+ years of developing the game he'd try it out for himself.   ::)
Title: Re: Mass Transport
Post by Ashton on 06/07/03 at 01:04:51
I've pked them once  :-X


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