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I've found the in-game mapper to be so much less painful to use (it lags very much less). If it had galloping, dashing, more monuments (100?) etc., it would improve the gaming experience by buttloads.
Does celerity aid PATH FIND and PATH GO speed?
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Rawr
I'm certainly open to ideas about improving pathfinding. Most external autowalkers function by spamming the heck out of the game and gagging the "You can't move that fast!" messages. The built-in method is much easier on our resources.
* If I have wings is there a shorter way to get there using them? If so use it.
* If I have access to wormholes (vibrating stick/syssin) is that the best route? If so use it.
* Will city portals get me there faster? Check even if outside the city, so if I am 3 steps out of duiran and path to delos, it absolutely will be faster to walk back into the city, portals, and go east.
* Give us a config option to QL or have the map show on movement when pathing.
* Consider having pathing enter non-standard exits. For example: if I path to maghuir's room in the fissure, have it enter the fissure for me.
* As mentioned previously, galloping/dashing support.
* As mentioned previously, waterwalking respect.
* Have multiple versions of movement speed bonus stack when pathing, as they do when performing normal movement. As far as I can tell it seems to only take the first level of bonus when pathing right now.
* Having vnums attached to scry/who lines would then eliminate the need for a mapper to track down your friends/enemies.
Some of these things may use up balance, which actually causes the in game system to spam out exits. If you've ever thrown up GRACE while pathing somewhere you know what I'm talking about. If you're swimming this actually stops the path and you have to restart it. Having the system wait until you gain balance to attempt the move would probably be a good idea on your end if a lot more people were to start using. If you lose balance mid-swim it could just try again when you regain so you don't have to restart the path? Might be able to tie this into the queue work that's already been done?
I can understand a feeling of 'meh' about the special exits thing, as some of these are meant to be somewhat secretish, but clever players are building that sort of stuff into their mappers. Being able to actually path to asper, including getting on the boat for you and everything, might be functionality people are hesitant to give up.
Rawr
Personal wishlist:
1. path go gallop
2. path go dash
3. path go sprint (wait, does sprint even exist anymore?)
4. adding of special exits (enter portal, twist statue, etc.) so that you can path find through them
For the gallop/dash type movement modes, I think the typical logic is: if you need to pass by a dead end room, which is your in line of sight, on the way to your final destination, then gallop/dash, else walk.
As an additional note: Please make this also apply to dead-end rooms that are only a one-room distance away. For some reason, the mappers I've used don't gallop/dash to dead-end rooms one-room distance away, which means my mapper makes me enter the room, wait to ensure I'm in the room, then carries on. This creates an unnecessary pause, since gallop/dash can be stacked without a hasty penalty.
@Oleis: What you just said about mappers spamming movement and gagging hasty messages might explain why I experience crazy lag with external mappers. I don't play from the States, which means high ping, which means lag would be exacerbated when this sort of spam-movement-gag-hasty method of movement is used.
Edit: Amberlea mentions lots of functions that I missed out. Scrying, wormholes, portal functions (wings, amulet, cityportals). Those would be awesome too.
Regarding special exits - don't have to spoil it for us. I'm sure some of the builders put in special exits specially so we can figure them out, and it would be a waste if we got fed the answers. Maybe just have some way by which we can input it ourselves?
Unfortunately, some of these personalized things would be pretty difficult (wings and wormholes). A lot of the pathing code itself is shared among the five games (for interactivity with the client). Changing what we DO with the path (gallop, dashing, sprinting) is probably a lot more feasible.
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And for wings just set an alias to 'wings' path find -place- ?
And not ALL Cities have access to City Portals as it gets turned of and on depending on ylem upkeep soo making that into path finding seems like it'll take more coding for that too..
If I get 13% on the blunt/cutting armour audit breakdown, but 5% on the total blunt/cutting audit, this doesn't sound right does it?
No armour on.
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Do you mean that an item that costs 500 credits provides 5% resistance if one is not wearing armour, and 2.5% if one is? That's quite measly, right?
Why not say 5% and 2.5%, instead of saying 20/20 armour rating? I get that armour rating is not the same as audit, but that's a huge disparity in expectation, especially for people who aren't familiar with how things translate. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
********************************[ Resistances ]********************************
Type Defences Miniskills Armour A. Total
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cutting 25% 0% 40% 39%
Blunt 25% 0% 40% 39%
********************************[ Resistances ]********************************
Type Defences Miniskills Armour A. Total
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cutting 25% 0% 53% 44%
Blunt 25% 0% 53% 44%
^ is this right? Or something wrong?
Old armour used to make people have 90/90 audit but it was re-coded to give accurate read out for people (believe that was the case I might get corrected)
Sounds like one of those artifacts that someone was mentioning earlier that have old pricing, but significantly nerfed effects. The fact that its stated effects aren't newbie-friendly kinda makes it worse.
I've msg @Razmael and will have my fingers crossed.
I have free 14+ and all the racial skills minus the ones I have from skills.. And nothing to spend them on ..
Can the banner of dominance's line be customized? This is what it is now:
The corpse of Dato is here, a banner bearing Ishin's name staked through it.
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Right now, the vials in question show up like this (but should be 15 of each):
vial208972 a stimulant serum (intricately painted Bahir' 14 220gp
vial95690 an analeptic serum (intricately painted Bahir 12 220gp
vial158560 a stimulant serum (intricately painted Bahir' 1 220gp
vial158705 an analeptic serum (intricately painted Bahir 3 220gp
Why won't my boots hold waterwalking enchant?
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