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CF: Re: disease
> Now I play crossfire with your disease patch.
> My character is suffered from scurvy and his tooth is spited out.
> There are much kind of disease. Now I'm interested in disease.
>
> But instead of much kind of disease. players can cure disease by
> just one spell "cure disease".
How about 'cure disease' requiring spell components, in some cases?
It is important that disease not be too hard to cure, otherwise
a deadly one may kill a player before he has a reasonable chance
at curing it.
Note that diseases have a level, and the player (or caster) of
cure disease must be of higher or equal level to cure it, though
lower-level cures are possible with repeated attempts, with
decreasing probability as the level of the player decreases.
> I feel it's quite easy to cure disease.
The diseases you can get from needles are pretty harmless
right now on purpose. They are demonstrations. Also,
I wanted to dilute some of the deadlier traps so that
low-level players would not face sudden death as often.
Go catch as many diseases as you like from diseased needles.
They are intended as nuisances and amusements.
> One way is to make 6 spells for curing each disease.
> But this will just add players process for curing, and will not make
> crossfire more fun.
I prefer to require spell components for some of them, or
perhaps require 'invoke cure disease of red death'?
Then the player will have to diagnose the disease.
Diseases should be fun by their various effects though.
> Another way is to use food for curing each disease.
> For example, scurvy suffer players because of lack of vitamin C.
> So players guess that apples which has vitamin C may cure scurvy.
> This will show the character of each disease to players.
It'd be simple enough to have the server check for diseases
cured whenever a player ate/drank anything.
> I'm afraid that you cannot find suitable food for curing some disease.
> How about making medicine of "antibiotic" for curing such a disease?
> You know, "antibiotic" has side effects.
Someone else mentioned alchemical cures for diseases.
> So, when a player take "antibiotic", the disease is cured and players
> stat is lost. (This is recovered by improvement potion or restore
> potion.)
> Players will feel such a disease as unwelcome thing rather than other
> disease.
>
> By the way, can diseases be infected among players?
None of the diseases that are currently implemented in
diseased needles traps are contageous. It is certainly
possible though.
PeterM
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