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| Posted by
| Polarus
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| Tue 05 Nov 2002 11:17 PM (UTC) |
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| In Corinal, which is the DoT Mud I am currently developing, the races do not have much contact that doesn't end with an eviceration. I would like all the races to either have a separate monetary system, or use separate gems of some sort to represent massive amounts of gold. Is there a way to implement this fairly easy, or is it going to be a pain?
I actually have a good frined who codes working for me, so if you could tell me where to change stuff...
As for the gems, is there a way I could make them worth a lot in one area and not worth anything in another, to force people to use them as I want? |
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| Meerclar
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| Reply #1 on Thu 07 Nov 2002 02:50 PM (UTC) |
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| | Actually, mprogs would make this very doable. Each gem would need a diff check in the prog but unless you have say 100 pc races that shouldnt be too ugly. Another option is to expand the changer act flag to cover gem handling with a value check for each gem in each town/region. |
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| Posted by
| Polarus
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| Reply #2 on Fri 08 Nov 2002 04:59 AM (UTC) |
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| | Oooh, never even thought of that. How would you make a mob_prog like that though? I wouldn't know where to start. I have built quite a few kinds of mob_progs, but nothing like that. (ps. I have 8 pc races) |
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| Posted by
| Meerclar
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| Reply #3 on Fri 08 Nov 2002 07:34 PM (UTC) |
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| | Well, the "easy" way to setup a mprog to handle this would start with a room check to determine where the mob is and within each room would be another table of ifs for each gem or whatever to determine its relative value in that region. There is also the option of designing a seperate prog for each gem to avoid the prog from getting too bulky but with only 8 races a single should be workable if slightly large. Only major potential problem comes in when chars are already near their max weight allowance and turn in a highly valuable gem and cant move but thats their own faults for being goofy. |
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| Posted by
| Polarus
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| Reply #4 on Sat 09 Nov 2002 02:45 AM (UTC) |
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| | My problem is I just haven't done too much work with mobs. Would the mob have to be loaded with enough money to buy the gems, or use some other system? If it was a concern, i could even hack it down to 3 or 4 different types of gems. |
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| Posted by
| Meerclar
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| Reply #5 on Sun 10 Nov 2002 03:37 AM (UTC) |
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| | Actually, the way money is handled, its possible to have the mob load coin as needed based on the value of the gem it is handed. Somwehere in the first 100 vnums there are obj descriptors for piles of coins. Load the necessary vnum, have the mob set the obj_value to the necessary amt of gold/silver and you have instant unlimited coin on your gem exchange mobs. I would recommend against having the mobs actually buy/sell the gems in question as you would then have to set the values of the objects and the shopkeepers would offer whatever % markup/down they are set to in their shop profiles when chars buy and sell the gems and the gems would have the same value regardless of region if you handled it with shopkeepers. It might be worth looking into having your friend write a spec_function to handle the gems since you admit to not having a lot of experience with this type of mprog. |
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| Posted by
| Polarus
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| Reply #6 on Sun 10 Nov 2002 04:33 PM (UTC) |
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| | THanks, I'll check into this. |
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| Posted by
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| Reply #7 on Thu 14 Nov 2002 05:25 AM (UTC) |
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| | Just one question, can a mob set an obj_value in a mob_prog? I am kinda confused. This sounds more like something in the hard code, but with DoT ya never know, I guess. |
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| Posted by
| Meerclar
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| Reply #8 on Thu 14 Nov 2002 12:45 PM (UTC) |
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| | It *should* be possible with either mob oset or mpset but I've nothing developed to test this on at present to be certain. |
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