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Re: CF: Where is non-standard maps?

Yuri A. Pudgorodsky (yur@mail.kbimpuls.msk.ru) wrote:
> 
> Just wondering, is there anywhere a place with non-standard maps?

No. Unfortunately there aren't very many map at all :-(

> I saw talks about Greyshield,

Publically available.

> Stoneville/DragonIsland,

Some people here made it. Not that interesting, but neat, and quite
complete. I think it's still the best source for demonspawn shields
(anyone seen dread knights in the standard maps?).  Of course Grey
Island has dread knights, too --- but who wants a Demonspawn shield if
you can have a Greyshield?

>  Goldcity.

Is available, too. Rather incomplete, though --- I even took it
out again because there was nothing to do at all (at least we didn't
find anything).

> Greyshield author's web site does not responce, too bad. This quest
> really has a nice set of new artifacts:

Be careful with Lepred's bag --- the weight limit is generally
considered a bug among some of my players since it causes a lot of
problems. I'm trying to figure out some patches to get around the
weight limit problems.

Or maybe somebody just fix the bag bug :-) Activating a bag and
dropping it sometimes empties the bag onto the floor (which is good),
but often it just kills the items. Fixing this would be a good start
to handle the weight limit problem (although having to take everything
out of the bag to process some items is not the best way of handling
things. Maybe some "drop <regexp>" to take things out of the bag and
drop them on the floor? And some getmax <item> to get as many items as
you can carry (like "getmax platinum" when you go shopping). Plus
other changes to avoid taking things out of bags at all, like automatically
looking for money contained in pouches (often asked for... I haven't done
it yet because I didn't like the idea to accidentally buy something),
but due to the weight limit problem and the existence of Lepred's pouch
it might be worth implementing :-)

>    http://elycion.geology.ualberta.ca/~pudding/src/Greyshield.tar.gz

I have it installed, and I guess the author won't mind if I pass it to
anyone who wants it :-)

> What is/was Stoneville/DragonsIsland, I really do not know.

See above.

> IMHO, it would be nice to have all these maps available
> on usual crossfire ftp sites, in separate directory Other ideas?

There are some other maps, too. Florian Beck has created an apartment
city, which is quite buggy (cheat items and anyone can enter your
apartment/ house), but makes a good addition when you fix the bugs.

Of course, my own apartments are the ultimate solution, since there are
enough of them for everybody (very important due to the weight limit...).

There is another dungeon by florian but I didn't try that since I
don't like to install maps that require archetype and/or treasure-list
changes (back then I installed pupland because I considered it worth
the hassle). This might be an idea for crossfire --- read a directory
with archetype and treasure-list files, instead of just reading one
file.

Christian
  (most of the maps are installed on sunbroy53.informatik.tu-muenchen.de :-))
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