Re: CF: Usless Items (was Map integration)

[Christian Stieber <stieber@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>]

Anthony Thyssen (anthony@cit.gu.edu.au) wrote:

> I don't mind the key descriptions but unless you know what the key
> description refers to (generally by finding the door by accident latter)
> you really can't use it.
> 
> Just getting a ``Key to FooBar'' is no good unless you happened to know
> where ``FooBar'' is and wandering arround is a very dangerious and
> dishearting exercise.

No. Most keys you find somewhere (because somebody has forgotten or
lost it) do not have labels like "Mr. Doe, 23 foostreet, ..." on
them. Crossfire is not a pure action game --- it has puzzles, and I
would hate to see if the puzzles are removed so players don't have
to wander around --- either wander around and risk somethiong, or stay
at places you already know and don't proceed in the game.

It has to be balanced, of course --- just naming all keys "key" without
anything else is definitely the wrong thing. On the other hand, naming
all keys with exact descriptions of where they can be used isn't better
either.

> `Empty' letters I find the most annoying.

Same as emty notes or books or signs.  There are whole libraries of
empty books in the game. I guess the map makers just wanted to add
some flavor to the map, but they didn't want to spend the time
adding text into these things. Same with flavor monsters such as
guildmasters --- many of them don't talk.

Christian


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