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Re: Crossfire Races



etc>> Locally we found that the game was grossly unbalanced towards
etc>> low level fighters and high level mages.
etc>
etc>Hmmm... Not really if you are used to playing mages.

Around here we use partying to boost mage classes to about
tenth level, otherwise it's too slow...

etc>> So we modified the archetypes such that high level fighters still
etc>> have difficulty casting, and in fact are limited to carry virtually
etc>> no equipment to get the necessary spells to cast.
etc>
etc>How?

We added a variable to the archetypes and used it in encumberance
failure..

It still needs some work, but no one locally has suggested 
a reasonable formula. At the moment it also depends on 
Wis and Int.

etc>> We also modified the mage classes such that their weapon class went
etc>> down at about quarter the rate of pure fighters, with others in 
etc>> between.
etc>
etc>Not a good thing. A better solution could be to create weapon skills
etc>and use fighting experience instead of level-based experience to
etc>calculate the weapon class.

Granted but I'm not that smart, perhaps you should talk to bt
about that. He seems to be writing all that stuff, which is over
my head by miles.

At the moment it works though at higher levels it is less valuable to
be a mage no matter how super your weapon is, you still couldn't
fight say a big wiz hand to hand...

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etc>> P.S. I also hacked the disarm code such that the spell gives no
etc>> experience there are too many places to get experience without 
etc>> any risk.
etc>
etc>This is maybe a good thing. We get level 100 in about 45 min over
etc>here... Gige a Spellbook of rune of death to an angel and disarm his
etc>traps.

Seems a pretty stupid thing to do, I can think of better ways to
get to 100th level, most of them are mind numbing though...

etc>
etc>>      I also coded a rough work around for the infinite spell point
etc>> feature. We had a lot of fun with that one for a while.

Our work around has a small problem when you invoke a summon spell
it doesn't hold the golem in the range field so you can control it
a little as it moves around....

kind of silly huh?

etc>
etc>I did that, too, sometimes.
etc>
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etc>AAAAAAARGH!!! I hate that.

You do? why? Is it some deep emotional thing.

Here you can have another copy...
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