I'm suprised that I did a search and found absolutely nothing on this. O_o I propose an Ingame map with a "fog of war". What this means is that if you haven't been to a part of the map yet, it is blocked from your view by a:"fog". This encourages exploration and gives you a map to see where you've been.
I also suggest the map have important points like towns labeled and to allow map modification in the form of user created labels, icons or colored pins. This map would definitely need a zoom function and the map's graphics must be clear and nice.
It would also be nice to be able to "quick travel" from town to town as you discover them. One way to do this is to have the player rent a coach for 100 gold per trip (or something like that) as the coach, horses, and protection are expensive. You could even have towns they refuse to go to if you like.
Later in their adventures, say a certain adventure level, the player could even get a quest for a traveling stone, a magical stone of teleportation that does the same job as the coach but takes something to use, say rubies for instance. The big difference is that this stone can be used anywhere outside, just select and choose from a list of already visited locations. You could even forgo the coach and use the stone from early on if ya like.
The main thing would to be at least getting a working ingame map, though. This game is sorely lacking without one, even though I still love it.
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Ingame Map/Fast Travel
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Re: Ingame Map/Fast Travel
Welcome to the forum!!!
some posts Oskar has recently made about maps...
a link to a really rough map, for anyone who may be interested...
http://www.iostr.com/andorstrail_worldmap.png
some more in a min...
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not much, but a little more...
"fog of war" - this came up on the code page & i agree...
im pretty sure this is how the map will end up. but haven't asked...
and as for fast travel, there are a couple good threads with nice ideas...
just hasn't gotten much attention yet.
i am hoping that the next version - v0.6.12 will have a map!
(just gotta wait & see though)
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some posts Oskar has recently made about maps...
http://www.iostr.com/andorstrail_worldmap.png
some more in a min...
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not much, but a little more...
"fog of war" - this came up on the code page & i agree...
im pretty sure this is how the map will end up. but haven't asked...
and as for fast travel, there are a couple good threads with nice ideas...
just hasn't gotten much attention yet.
i am hoping that the next version - v0.6.12 will have a map!
(just gotta wait & see though)
take care!!!
always great to have new members!
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Re: Ingame Map/Fast Travel
I am also surprised that you found nothing on maps, because there has been a fair amount of talk amout them and several player-created versions of the world map through the current official version. (Not including the latest. just-released alpha.}
But then, I have never used the search, and there has been talk that it could work better.
Why fog of war? Of course you don't know what a place is like until you have been there. But why of war? Why not fog of the unknown? Fog of mystery? Fog of uncertainty? Fog of beyond? Must have been named by a male.
But then, I have never used the search, and there has been talk that it could work better.
Why fog of war? Of course you don't know what a place is like until you have been there. But why of war? Why not fog of the unknown? Fog of mystery? Fog of uncertainty? Fog of beyond? Must have been named by a male.
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Re: Ingame Map/Fast Travel
any time!!!DarkSavant13 wrote:Thanks, nyktos.
that's why we're here!
[anything else, just ask - i'm sure you know how great our community is!]
btw, love the Av!
sdevaney recently beefed up our search, and the old tips still work well...lady black wrote:But then, I have never used the search, and there has been talk that it could work better.
(at the cost making it impossible for non-members to use it)
a hefty price for power, but i think it was a wise move.
Place + in front of a word which must be found and - in front of a word which must not be found.
Put a list of words separated by | into brackets if only one of the words must be found.
Use * as a wildcard for partial matches.
i'm pretty sure it's because it was first used in war & conquest games (to hide enemy movement & such...)lady black wrote:Why fog of war? Of course you don't know what a place is like until you have been there. But why of war? Why not fog of the unknown? Fog of mystery? Fog of uncertainty? Fog of beyond? Must have been named by a male.
dungeon crawlers and adventure / rpgs adopted them later...
but your point is still valid!
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Re: Ingame Map/Fast Travel
lady black wrote:I am also surprised that you found nothing on maps, because there has been a fair amount of talk amout them and several player-created versions of the world map through the current official version. (Not including the latest. just-released alpha.}
But then, I have never used the search, and there has been talk that it could work better.
Why fog of war? Of course you don't know what a place is like until you have been there. But why of war? Why not fog of the unknown? Fog of mystery? Fog of uncertainty? Fog of beyond? Must have been named by a male.
Actually, it WAS created by a male, Carl von Clausewitz to describe the unknown of war. The first use of it in a video game was in Tanktics created by Chris Crawford in 1978, another male.
The search I did was for "ingame map" (no parantheses). I figured the search would definitely turn up something whether for ingame or map, but nada.
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Re: Ingame Map/Fast Travel
Excellent point to say the least. This is the kind of analytical question I would ask. I love this kind of thinking/questioning. +1 to lady blacklady black wrote:Why fog of war? Of course you don't know what a place is like until you have been there. But why of war? Why not fog of the unknown? Fog of mystery? Fog of uncertainty? Fog of beyond? Must have been named by a male.
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Re: Ingame Map/Fast Travel
Great idea, the Fog of war (or whatever we would call it) would be great for exploring and finding new areas you havent been to yet.
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