[phpRPG-discussion] Pre TODO Questionnaire

[Michael W. <ha...@ho...>]

A few questions that need to be addressed as they directly effect the 
completion of the editors that exist at the moment.  Any feed back would be 
greatly appreciated.



- Should map locations (as opposed to tiles themselves) have event or should 
those custom events be implemented with attributes saying: if a value is set 
with an internally recognizable key, such as PHPRPG_ONENTER, then spawn the 
script at the value with that key?

Because attributes have to have unique keys per object they are attached to 
no more than one, PHPRPG_ONENTER for instance, would be allowed per game 
object.  This of course would still not allow you to do other events than 
the ones that the game object would normally have because it would actually 
be the event itself that would look for the added attribs on the object 
instance.

- Should the above be extended to all game objects on all events?

- Are vehicles items?

If vehicles are items then it would be possible to set a game objects 
location to that of an item.  This can be implemented pretty simply by 
putting a type on the characters location or we could say, because no map 
can have a value of zero (because of the auto incrementing) that if the 
MapId is zero then the location is actually to be associated to an item. 
These vehicles (as well as items in containers) would still be governed by 
the MaxCC and MaxSlots fields on the item info table. This might be an issue 
with items, because if an item (vehicle) is located on a user then there 
would need to be a type unless they can't be put into a users inventory.

- Should an immovable flag tell the onPickup event to not allow the user to 
add the item to their inventory or should it check for an attribute with a 
certain value such as PHPRPG_IMMOVABLE?

This would be helpful for items to share the same area as all other items on 
a tile location but that were meant to be static such as forges or other 
such furniture; whichever format is used.  (Removing those items from the 
possible alt tile solution and freeing that field for other game systems)

- Should an owner field be added to the $prefix_items table?

Could be helpful for items that are owned by a PC but can't become equipped 
for whatever reason or another.  This could then be used to assign who had 
control over the movement of a vehicle while the others are just along for 
the ride.

- Are NPCs just characters without user ids or are they separate requiring 
their own tables and object?  If they are the same thing, what defines an 
NPC?


mike (haeric)

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