Re: [Eom-users] Discussion on the outstanding TODO items:

[Frank R. <cra...@gm...>]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 04:30:46PM -0000, Gareth Noyce wrote:
> Obviously. We want fairly fixed, preferably hard goals which reward EP...

This opens us up to actually adding quests to the game.. something in the style
of 'omg there is this daemon vandalizing our city.. can you help us?'

> Yeah, but this could be like 0.0001 of an EP. It's all a matter of scale...
> :-)

Hm.. then I'd rather count how many units you kill throughout the whole game
and add a factor to the overall game EPs. And maybe set a maximum there so 
that it doesn't matter whether you killed 10k or 100k units :)

> | - maybe add an EP indicator to the statusbar?
> 
> Nope, EP shouldn't really be so clearly defined for the players (IMO), but
> fairly easy for them to figure out as they (personally) become more
> experienced... I like an air of mystery around the whole thing. If it's all
> "laid out on the table" the newbies will spend the first three months
> running around after EP without fighting each other (if you see what I
> mean)...
> 
> My opinion anyway. Not *that* fussed about it...

I more thought of a bar.. not like 'You got 3.1415926 EPs'.. kinda like
Diablo so that you the player can see there's about that much missing for
the next level.. so when you're close to it (and we update the character
in the game) one might run a more risky attack just to get the last few EPs
for the next level.
I think we need to at least give the player some way of finding it's current
character state.. otherwise he'll feel strange and will start worrying about
his EPs

> My preference (I think) is after the game. But I'm flexible on this issue...

I also haven't decided on this yet.. it might add some nice elements when
done ingame.. but also is risky when you spend too much time with it while
being attacked :)

> Well, that's you and I in complete agreement after two emails... Now I just
> *know* everyone else will have to disagree. Things are never this good! ;-P

I'm actually waiting for this to happen.. otoh the list isn't used much
anyways.. we got mostly the eom-devel team here.. that's why we need some
more users on this list.. and if it's just for disagreeing :)

I don't think I'll be able to add an OpenGL renderer to the 0.1 release as I'm
currently stuck with a bug no one seems to know. I've tried chakie, pete, #opengl
and the pyopengl list without any success so far. So for now I'll stick to make
0.1 more playable (aka update the battle system)

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