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#2191 - 09/25/08 10:09 PM
Transport rune fumble change
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Cerberus
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Registered: 11/28/07
Posts: 608
Loc: Arlee, MT, USA
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Earlier this evening I changed the transport rune fumble to the old fumble of summon faerie guardian - for those who don't know, the fumble is to teleport those who don't resist to a random place on the world map. The place is the same for each creature in the room, and the caster loses their teleport beacon. This fits the spell's theme and makes me happy.
I haven't made the change on the live mud yet because it's no longer deadly to the caster. Whereas before the fumble of teleport rune was an all expenses paid trip to the ever-dangerous warp, now a fumble can't even result in accidentally landing on a volcano or horrifically high in the air. It can however result in landing in an inaccessible area (one surrounded by mountains, or on an island surrounded by deep water). My question is this - is this an acceptable change to the fumble in terms of playability?
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#2193 - 09/25/08 10:20 PM
Re: Transport rune fumble change
[Re: Kim]
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Cerberus
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Registered: 11/28/07
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Loc: Arlee, MT, USA
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I'm sure it'd be easy enough to exclude the inaccessible areas. I left them in because of the lack of chance to die, but without a reliable way out I think I agree that it would be completely detrimental to game play.
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#2194 - 09/25/08 10:28 PM
Re: Transport rune fumble change
[Re: Kim]
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Byakko
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Registered: 06/05/08
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Hmmmn.
I kinda like the idea of this fumble - it's fun and in theme. But it has some problems.
As Kim mentioned, it really could horribly strand an enchanter. For an arch-mage it might be ok, since they can usually get back ok (and if they're not carrying a spare mirror, shame on them!), but it could prove next to impossible for a high level enchanter who can't be scried by most. This could be fixed by instead resetting their beacon to TS/enchanter's guild.
The second problem I see is for an enchanter to intentionally fumble the rune until they wind up on some remote island where they can set up a castle which is virtually unreachable. This is actually borderline abusive. Apart from very complicated code restricting where castles and mines can be built, this would be hard to fix.
Alternatively, a long list of acceptable targets, or target ranges (to prevent the creation of fast walk return routes), could be made so that they never wind up on an isolated piece of land.... which could still be troublesome if they can't fly. (and still lose their beacon) I think this is the best route to go.
Also, feel free to include destinations with lava. 
Edited by Byakko (09/25/08 10:29 PM)
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#2285 - 11/07/08 11:38 AM
Re: Transport rune fumble change
[Re: Charon]
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Cerberus
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Registered: 11/28/07
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Loc: Arlee, MT, USA
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This change has been made and should be any random world map square that is still accessible by normal means (including lava, but excluding mountains/oceans/etc). If anyone finds this to not be the case, please post here or use the in game 'bug' command.
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