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Gameplay => Wish list => Topic started by: kriller on September 20, 2005, 08:45:58 pm

Title: Birdie birdie birdie
Post by: kriller on September 20, 2005, 08:45:58 pm: I wonder if I\'ll be in need of a new pair of socks. That\'s what I was thinking when I suddenly realized that i had no birdpoo on my shoulder. And what\'s more suprising, I was standing in the middle of the townsquare of Yliakum. So I looked up at the sky understood that there where no birds up there. Who has ever been to a real life townsquare withoud pidgets? So I say that Yliakum need some birds to make the town more alive. Perhapz this feature has already been thought of, and if so, please tell me.
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Post by: zanzibar on September 21, 2005, 04:56:05 am: It\'s already been thought of?
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Post by: beekmaster on September 21, 2005, 04:56:39 am: and they would fly away if you ran at them, that wouuld be fun!

but it would create a lot of lag with 100 pidgeys scampering around
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Post by: zanzibar on September 21, 2005, 06:27:12 am: Quote
Originally posted by beekmaster
and they would fly away if you ran at them, that wouuld be fun!

but it would create a lot of lag with 100 pidgeys scampering around

You\'d only need three or four. There also aren\'t any livestock, harmless wild animals, etc.
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Post by: kriller on September 21, 2005, 09:26:23 am: And you can make them targets for newbierangers. Hey let\'s go hunt some pidgets at the twonsquare!
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Post by: Moogie on September 21, 2005, 01:32:20 pm: I thought they were pidgeons? :)

There will be wildlife and indeed livestock similar to that which we get on Earth, but of course unique to Yliakum. Flocking birds would be a nice touch. It seems to me that there are a few ways these could be implemented:

The Easiest Solution: Every bird exists only for the player looking at it. It moves and flees without sending messages to the rest of the server, causing no network lag and no synchronisation issues. Downside is that nobody else sees the same birds in the same places as you, which is unrealistic.

The Main Idea: Allowing a flock of birds to be classified as one \'object\' and move/flock the same for everyone within viewing distance. The clever part here is that each bird within the flock could still animate and move independantly, however, its overall destination and movement is controlled by the server. This keeps relatively the same thing viewed by all players, aswell as reducing the amount of lag produced.

The Most Expensive: Every bird moves independantly, reacting to every player, and is controlled by the server. All players see exactly the same thing. This would be much more resource-intensive, and thus not really a viable option for poor ol\' Laanx (or most of our players either).
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Post by: lanser on September 21, 2005, 04:08:42 pm: Pigeons in the plaza we\'d be in enki heaven all those birds to stalk and pounce on :)
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Post by: kriller on September 21, 2005, 10:29:44 pm: You have to forgive me for my poor spelling... Anyway, Moogie, you seem to know what you\'re talking about.
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Post by: Moogie on September 21, 2005, 11:07:54 pm: Not at all, I have no first hand experience or knowledge of what it would take to code things like this. :) However, those seem to be the three solutions that come to mind with a little practical thinking.
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Post by: darkw00t on September 21, 2005, 11:31:37 pm: Birdies could do the Fed-Ex thingy in the other topic, on to topic though Birds should not be in their hundreds in town square, there could 1 or 2 in trees, birds in the sky depending on the day/weather, and so on
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Post by: Rage McCloud on September 22, 2005, 03:00:00 am: Yea that thing of messages from bulletins to the other town... messanger birds nice idea!

the other ideas have already been thought of BTW... in the animals thread in the wishlist...

http://www.planeshift3d.com/wbboard/thread.php?threadid=19268&boardid=11&styleid=4&sid=8ec18bb55c9ac3dfed4beedd0cb39f87

also i think again in farming... maybe one about pets or something also... not to flame but please use the search... wait what am i saying... the search does nothing for what i look for lol! here i show you...

http://www.planeshift3d.com/wbboard/search.php?boardid=0&searchid=2&showposts=0&sid=8ec18bb55c9ac3dfed4beedd0cb39f87

i searched with exact phrase of Name Changing

and i just noticed that the ID number is the same for the post and the search but the difference is searchid and postid
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Post by: fken on September 22, 2005, 09:56:27 pm: It would be an interesting things for ranged weapons testing ... :D

Anyway, the subject has been opened some time ago : I remember the time i spoke about that subject and sent a link to the laanxwheelofwishes meshes
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Post by: Rage McCloud on September 22, 2005, 10:49:51 pm: HAH yea hunting birds with a bow and arrow... then you could get it and have a skill or something to prepare it to cook then cook it or that could be part of the cooking skill... then you could eat it and yadda yadda...
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Post by: fken on September 23, 2005, 02:00:39 am: i have absolutly no clue of what yadda yadda mean... is it something from texas which mean you would like to ride a bufalo ? or a jedish expression to speak about Yaveh ? or maybe simply a way to say etc ...

personally i think the alchimist skill is a better way to hunt : animals are already cooked when you hunt them with tnt ...
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Post by: Rage McCloud on September 23, 2005, 04:44:48 am: Yadda yadda, i guess i should have explained sorry my mistake, is etc. i dont know why i dont just put etc. its much easier and shorter... ah well...

HAH! Alchemist hunting... or fireball it... roasted pigeon anyone?

The thing is... most of the wish list items have lately tied together in a way... anywho it would be peacful and for great pictures... the forest with the music and the birds flying... of course no music for pics but it is peaceful anyways lol!
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Post by: fken on September 23, 2005, 10:58:02 am: ... and 17 newbies running behind them to hunt them ... :rolleyes:
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Post by: zanzibar on September 23, 2005, 11:20:30 am: Quote
Originally posted by fken
... and 17 newbies running behind them to hunt them ... :rolleyes:

Then make them invincible.
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Post by: Rage McCloud on September 23, 2005, 10:06:41 pm: Make them not NPC\'s but Cyclers or something... like a moving texture... it would be same as moving water just have the invis color in between birds or squirrels or something... thereore you cant even TARGET them... thus noobs wouldnt waste energy or peacefulness on it... of course with ground creates or something you could run into make them no collide so that you do not NOT go through the track... as that IS how it would be... well that is how it is on a program i have that makes levels/maps for another game called hammer... so im using most terminology from it... im not sure if that is how this works... then again in Hammer you can make the \"blocks\" with textures on them that move... but whatever... i think you get the point...