Re: Proposal

[Petri Heinil{ <hevi@lut.fi>]

On Mon, 13 Dec 1993, Raphael Quinet wrote:

> > From: Peter Mardahl <peterm@soda.berkeley.edu>
> > (...)
> >   How about hacking up a mode so that opposing teams can fight
> > to obtain an objective?
> > (...)
> >   How about a server mode which starts people up with
> > reasonably strong characters, and have teams competing for 
> > fountains of mana?  (No fountains, no mana!)

Some times ago I have an idea (It happens occasionally :) to calculate
mana as heat-transfer system. E.g. mana at place m(x,y) is
1/4 * (m(x+1,y) + m(x-1,y) + m(x,y+1) + m(x,y-1)) . This gives to mana
a feature, that it fluid over the ground. Where there are high mana
sources, mana is spread round it. And where there are mana pits, mana
of you and environment is lost into it.

Well, this is just a idea for a while. Because the compilation is
quite high; e.g. for 50x50 area, there would be 2500 operations
per tick. 

...
> - There is a BoloTracker program that keeps track of the current Bolo games in
>   the world.  Whenever a player joins or creates a Bolo game, he may choose
>   to notify the BoloTracker (using UDP datagrams).  Using another program
>   (BoloFinder), you may join one of the current games.  There should be
>   something like that for the CrossFire servers.  If there was one host (like
>   ifi.uio.no) that could automatically keep track of the CrossFire servers in
>   the world, this would add a lot of fun to the game.

This would more & more require changing CrossFire into client/server
model.

> By the way, will there ever be a new "official" release of CrossFire ?  Since
> 0.89.2, there seems to be as many versions as there are people on this list...
> Flame, flame...  ;-)

I hope someone in ifi have time to put patches into together. 

Or other possibility, what I have thinked, is some kind of rounding-
system; that, who makes changes into CrossFire, makes functional release
of it and updates patches untill someone else takes carrying on of
release-making.  

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