Re: Some ideas on swimming
by Kahim » Sun Jan 17, 2010 7:40 am
Jackards point is good. You should start with swimming it and if your wearing a metal plate then of course your not going to be swimming as far as a guy in just rangers pants and shirt.
My motions are swift as a eagle, on my worst day I am still Lethal. No challenge, only start me when you learn the ripples of a butterflies heartbeat.
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Make swimming less lethal
by MightyAgrippa » Thu Feb 18, 2010 7:23 pm
Until the server is stable and the code is bulletproof, please take the fangs out of swimming. It's killed more hearthlings than starvation and Wayneville combined. And at least 90% of those deaths aren't fair "oops, I went farther than I should have" deaths. They're "oops, my character hopped out of the boat in the wrong direction" or "oops, the game turned on swimming and dumped me in the river" deaths.
You could make moving in the water cost more stamina and staying in place cost none, but drastically slow stamina regeneration. When you run out of stamina in the water, you have to float there for a while and regain some to dogpaddle back to shore at a crawl. Like what happens if you hit 0% stamina on land but significantly slower.
Make sure combat works against swimming characters, add a suicide button that isn't "buy swimming" if you're concerned about that function, and let us swim in peace.
You could make moving in the water cost more stamina and staying in place cost none, but drastically slow stamina regeneration. When you run out of stamina in the water, you have to float there for a while and regain some to dogpaddle back to shore at a crawl. Like what happens if you hit 0% stamina on land but significantly slower.
Make sure combat works against swimming characters, add a suicide button that isn't "buy swimming" if you're concerned about that function, and let us swim in peace.
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Re: Make swimming less lethal
by Delamore » Thu Feb 18, 2010 7:25 pm
Why does such a low reward task have such a high risk to begin with?
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Re: Make swimming less lethal
by Chakravanti » Thu Feb 18, 2010 7:26 pm
Agreed. Swiming being deadly was a meaningful game mechanics before boats. Now it's just an extremely sadistic annoyance that, at best, serves to increase the learning curve and weed out the weak of heart.
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Re: Make swimming less lethal
by Spiff » Thu Feb 18, 2010 7:35 pm
No, make it more lethal. Make it suck people in with the sucking power of twelve hungry whores combined. Or three Nao's.
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Re: Make swimming less lethal
by Pacho » Thu Feb 18, 2010 7:45 pm
We need more ways to die anyways, so why not make it even deadlier instead?
Make it so we randomly get dragged into the depths from the shallow water.
Make it so we randomly get dragged into the depths from the shallow water.
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Re: Make swimming less lethal
by Chakravanti » Thu Feb 18, 2010 7:59 pm
SHARKS!
Well what is this that I can't see
With ice cold hands takin' hold of me
Well I am death, none can excel
-Ralph Stanley, O Death!
With ice cold hands takin' hold of me
Well I am death, none can excel
-Ralph Stanley, O Death!
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Re: Make swimming less lethal
by calodine » Thu Feb 18, 2010 8:46 pm
I'm all for making swimming less deadly. So long as we get DF style carp.
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Re: Make swimming less lethal
by sabinati » Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:05 pm
make swimming just drop you out ko'd on the shore if you don't have enough stamina
or make swimming not lethal at all but make walking lethal, bring back 100 hhp thorns but make them go through shoes
or make swimming not lethal at all but make walking lethal, bring back 100 hhp thorns but make them go through shoes
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