I'll be closing this out this weekend. Thanks for all your contributions.

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The sprawl is a bit ridiculous, and this is one beast I wouldn't want to see animated

Always love the Sant Zulg splurging.

Learn a lot too! Where do we send the beer?

I know this isn't Santa Daev, but anyways...


Stalwart Companion
You will make an attempt to stay by your companion's side if they are forced out of a room in the midst of combat.


Basically, if someone in your group gets pulled or driven out of the room you are fighting in, you get a chance to follow right along with them and continue fighting. I'd suggest this as strictly a warrior edge. It could be quite powerful, but also quite bad if it were to trigger in an unfortunate situation (such as a group sitting right outside the archmage and you getting pulled right along with your buddy into a beatdown). Interesting, nonetheless.

Make it require rescue at some %, maybe even a align restriction and high cost. And this could definitely find a comfortable nitch.

I could see warriors of any alignment/ethos having justifiable reasons for sticking by their companions, be they a stout, loyal dwarf, or a disciplined imperial blade, or even a psychotic madman with obsessive devotion. High cost...meh, I'd let Daevryn decide. It's so niche, and potentially bad to have for some cases, that I'm not sure it needs that restriction.


Oh yeah, this would be very good for paladins. Just realized that.

n/t

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make zombies have more than one word that they can be called. maybe animated zombie or something. just to make it a little less painful summoning zombies when they get lost. please

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Or have the NPC chief stick around the village even when he isn't "chief".

Tac

We've discussed this in the past and I'm not totally against it, but it probably won't be exactly like a cabal leader weapon.

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nt

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It would be nice if I didn't see every instance of common items.

<646hp 707m 414mv 10877tnl loc boots
You cast your arms wide, sending forth a searching sphere of elemental magic.
A pair of iron taloned boots carried by Sashrys
A pair of padded mithril-plated boots carried by Tarni
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
Some sturdy dwarven boots carried by the dwarven guard
Some sturdy dwarven boots carried by the dwarven guard
Some sturdy dwarven boots carried by the dwarven guard
A pair of steel-clawed boots carried by someone
A pair of steel-clawed boots carried by someone
A pair of steel-taloned boots carried by the royal palace guard
A pair of steel-taloned boots carried by the royal palace guard
A pair of steel-taloned boots carried by the royal palace guard
A pair of steel-taloned boots carried by the royal palace guard
A pair of steel-taloned boots carried by the royal palace guard
A pair of iron taloned boots carried by the guard
A pair of iron taloned boots carried by the guard
A pair of iron taloned boots carried by the guard
A pair of adamantite boots carried by the watchman
A pair of adamantite boots carried by the watchman
A pair of adamantite boots carried by the watchman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman


A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by the Patrolman Lieutenant
A pair of black steel boots carried by the Patrolman Lieutenant
A pair of black steel boots carried by the Patrolman Lieutenant
A pair of black steel boots carried by the Patrolman Lieutenant
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by the Mounted Guard
A pair of black steel boots carried by the Mounted Guard
A pair of black steel boots carried by the Mounted Guard
A pair of black steel boots carried by the Mounted Guard
A pair of black steel boots carried by the Mounted Guard
A pair of black steel boots carried by the Mounted Guard
A pair of black steel boots carried by the Mounted Guard
A pair of black steel boots carried by the Mounted Guard
A pair of black steel boots carried by the Mounted Guard
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman

A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman
A pair of black steel boots carried by a Seantryn Patrolman

Add more words to your locate object spell.

c 'locate object' ring
vs.
c 'locate object' seashell ring

There is no point weeding out information from locate object because you aren't specific enough.

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Sakilan won role contest. In next 57 hours he got 3 con, 3 not expensive edges and no even imm exp. Some other people get 3rd legacy or final form for winning the role contest.


Role contest rewards should be standartizated.

Seriously, not something I plan on tackling as a Santa Zulg. I've a coupel ideas on rewards in general but they are much more long-term and deeper.

So long, and thanks for all the fish!

No more worry that my lack of role-writing effort is ruining my powergaming! Wohoo!

Now to complain a bunch about how unfair all the Immexp is for role adds at all so that we get nothing at all for them, and I don't have to worry about Imm exp from roles either! Mwahahahahah!

On the serious note, I agree with disagreeing. Even though I've never managed to even place or make honorable mention in a role contest, I think it's much more fun to get "role fitting" rewards rather than anything standardized.

You apparently missed the 'and a quest spell' in there.

>Sakilan won role contest. In next 57 hours he got 3 con, 3 not
>expensive edges and no even imm exp. Some other people get 3rd
>legacy or final form for winning the role contest.
>


It looks like he received a quest spell, as well ...


Oops. Quick Daev beat me.

A reward is a reward. Be thankful they do role contests at all; they're a boon to creativity and foster variety. IMO role contests and their rewards are really more about the playerbase as a whole than any given individual's rewards.

Furthermore, I like the variety of role contest rewards. It makes them fun and surprising. Every Imm runs the contest slightly differently and I find it interesting. Further still, a given contest winner might not deserve the same reward as any other given winner. He might be a crappy character overall (even if he had a good role) or his role might not have been as good as the last winner's.

It's fine the way it is.

Splntrd

nt

This would be for those forms that can camo/forestblend/burrow/etc... in certain terrain types. I vaguely remember being in a few rooms that had foresty descriptions where I couldn't forestblend.

If you have a skill (like forestblend) that requires a certain terrain, you will know when you are in a terrain you can use it.

If you can't it will be wilderness, if you can it will be the specific terrain e.g. forest. If you are in places with foresty descriptions and it doesn't show up as a forest, it's not a forest.

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Legacies helped us see more dark-elf warriors, forms helped us see more dark-elf shifters. But I'd love to see more dark-elf thieves.

How about...

Extremely intelligent thieves are given more points or penalized less when using devious versatility multiple times. Because they are so smart they can learn more skillz. Can make same argument for gnome thieves.

This isn't my fourth request, it's on behalf of Sirlinn.

I'd rather that specific edges targetting dark-elves were created than do this (like what we did with Hook Horror & Cave Fisher for for dark-elf shifters).

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How about some Bedouin loving. Call it "leg whip" or something and make it more effective in desert. Is that so far fetched? They're kind of like bandits anyways, right?

Poor bedouins get two combat skill/spells that can only be used in the desert, dervishdance at 42, while losing 3 of the 4 key ranger lagging/kill sealing skills and spells. (not to mention charge??)

As a Christmas bonus, modify dirt kick for them to be...

Sand toss:
The bedouin throws a fistful of sand at the victims face, either blinding them for 2 ticks or rendering them mute for a tick.

I saw the lil' rogue desert kid in the bollywood film "The Warrior" do this with some red dust, and I thought, there it is, Bedouin Action for Carrion Fields!

n/t

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This has been bugging me for years and I'd love for it to be changed.

When you cast spells on yourself in game, they are sorted in the affects list with those that expire soonest on the bottom of the list. This makes it really easy to tell what spells expire next. However, when you log in, all those affects are sorted in the opposite order and stay that way until they expire.

That leads to a period of time for the first 1-20 (or more) minutes after you log in where your affects list can be totally scrambled, and if you're a class with a lot of buffs, this gets really annoying.

An example of what I mean from Irinam's affects list.

You are affected by:
Spell: 'repair organ' for 15 hours.
Spell: 'detect artifact' for 14 hours.
Spell: 'fly' for 11 hours.
Spell: 'repair bone' for 10 hours.
Spell: 'barrier' modifies armor class by -80 for 7 hours.
Spell: 'repair flesh' for 6 hours.
Spell: 'desensitize' for 0 hours.
Spell: 'control translucence' for 5 hours.
Spell: 'pass door' for 16 hours.
Spell: 'ocular enhancement' for 34 hours.
Spell: 'ocular enhancement' for 34 hours.
Skill: 'vigilance' for 41 hours.
Skill: 'vigilance' for 41 hours.
Spell: 'detect magic' for 44 hours.

If you had just logged in the middle of a raid or something and needed to figure out which critical spells you needed to refresh ASAP, this is just needlessly confusing.

n/t

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Right now, regardless of weapon damage type serpent strike does flat slashing damage. I posted on this a while back, and Daev said that if he made serpent strike take into account weapon damage type he'd have to tweak the damage down.

In all honesty, the way it is currently implemented serpent strike seems broken and not a match for the rest of the skills in CF

for example, all warrior skills (cranial/stab/etc et al) take into account damage type when dealing out damage...

so for the sake of RP and for keeping melee skills in line with one another, please fix serpent strike so that it takes into account weapon damage type

Thanks man!

-S

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Warrior A and Warrior B are in a group.
Warrior A has Cry.
Warrior B has Vanguard.

If B uses Warcry and grants A his Warcry, A can no longer use Cry for a very long time.

Is it possible to fix this? Granted, very very few warriors have Vanguard, but I had it as Humbert (3rd legacy) and it would hamper Aeinrez (who had Cry) quite a few times.

NT

>Warrior A and Warrior B are in a group.
>Warrior A has Cry.
>Warrior B has Vanguard.
>
>If B uses Warcry and grants A his Warcry, A can no longer use
>Cry for a very long time.
>
>Is it possible to fix this? Granted, very very few warriors
>have Vanguard, but I had it as Humbert (3rd legacy) and it
>would hamper Aeinrez (who had Cry) quite a few times.

This is what "teamwork" is all about. I see this as a similar limitation to shapeshifters where you have an ally and an enemy that are both tigers.

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Love to see a few monk edges if not a full set even.

Haven't had time to put fingers to keyboard long enough to get them in, but we'll see. Champions as well.

valguarnera@carrionfields.com

I never understood why cloud of wasps is a spell but bearcall or wolfkin isn't. Isn't mastery of animals, insects, lizards etc a skill? Could you consider changing this to a skill?

While you are at it, please look at bears. There is nothing special about any of the bears you call. They are usually fodder that gets a big hit on you with some - demoralization. Give them something like a charge, mini-rake or a bite/trip. Something that makes having beastmaster pets separate the class into something unique other than having a charmie.

Thanks.

>I never understood why cloud of wasps is a spell but bearcall
>or wolfkin isn't. Isn't mastery of animals, insects, lizards
>etc a skill? Could you consider changing this to a skill?

I suspect because you're calling from miles around vs. a local area. I'm fine with it how it is.

>While you are at it, please look at bears. There is nothing
>special about any of the bears you call. They are usually
>fodder that gets a big hit on you with some - demoralization.
>Give them something like a charge, mini-rake or a bite/trip.
>Something that makes having beastmaster pets separate the
>class into something unique other than having a charmie.

I'm not inclined to go diving into bear-charmie revamp and give them all lagging skills (which would guarantee you get one, not two, and likely the damage output dropped).

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See the thing I bug boarded about maran mantle.

Basically, have maran mantle supercede non-mantle flight and protection vs. evil if you have them up when you call mantle. Also detect evil if the caller is a squire.

I ran into this while retrieving. I'd put up flight, get the orb back, then immediately call mantle. Ooops! Now I have to wait 50 hours before I get the flight effect from mantle.

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Would it be possible to make it so you can make a refuse blessing toggle for classes that can warcry? There are some instances where a blessing would be hampering.

If you are affected by bless and then use warcry, the warcry will take the place of bless.

I guess that's changed somewhat recently since it didn't used to be that way.

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...of having a way to not wanting to be blessed.

Good example is an orc not wanting bard songs, bless, etc because of how important it is to warcry in battle. From my experience you got the "you are already blessed" message still.

It's rare I know, but still something.

Zulg, would it be possible for berserk to override frenzy?

It seems comparable to why warcry overrides bless, and yet it does not work this way.

Can you make the echoes for bless and canticle falling different? It mucks up my "this is what you have on" messages and confuses me when I keep trying to bless myself and I'm already blessed.

n/t

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Echoes when your skills kill people that have fled.

i.e

impale
fiend
etc


I've only played 3 or 4 classes so I dont know of all of the skills that can cause death after the person flees, nor have I been killed by many. I do know that fiend never gave me an echo if it got the kill while in a different room, and impale has killed me before after I fled from the PKer(unsure if it fires an echo to the user)

Maybe something like

"You sense that X listened to your grand nocturne very carefully"
and when the fiend dies, the bard doesnt see "You hear somethings death cry" (other players still would), but the bard could see something like "X laughs at the perfomance of your grand nocturne"

That's all on the fiend improvement.
Just echo ideas.

n/t

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Can be a simple method where you have to disarm all in the room.

Being able to disarm your traps would make it easier to:

- Set traps in town, so when the law comes you can clean up your traps and get out

- Set traps as a goodie/cabaled in more places, so if a non-enemy does come through you can disarm without having to go to them and group up, possibly messing up yours or his current group


TRAP LOVIN' FTW!

I feel like if you're going to ask for things with traps, ask for things that make general traps more PVP competitive. Snare is the same deal (minus the tribunal part I guess) and its mostly a non-issue. On the trap side I kinda expected stuff like "X trap should do more damage!"

nt

I'm not against having a way for trappers to disarm their own traps, but I'm also not quite sure what all it would entail. There are some other trapper things on my list, I'll add this to it.

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Please, change echo when you kill PCs to separate it from NPCs. Somewhat hard to search for kill logs now...

.

Make it distinguishable while blind.

Trying to grep out all my PKills is bad enough, but digging through all the false alarm, "Someone is DEAD" cases is the worst.

nt

PC's don't get the "you receive X experience" echo. not that I am against the idea, just pointing out a difference.

nt

You land the killing blow against Zrandom.
You assist Zulghinlour in the death of Zrandom.

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Have a beer. In fact, we should all share in that task.

Thanks for Christmas!

n/t

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typing "weight" echos out how much weight and how many items you are carrying.

For some reason, it takes me forever to scan my score and find this.

Thanks Santa!

I can never seem to find it.

type

score weight

sc weight
Carry # : 32/34 Weight : 285 lb 14 oz (Max 362 lbs)

nt

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A xmas request, but didn't see response, so going for it again.

Please change it so triggering and missing a KO trap doesn't set a sleep protection timer - like it was back in the old days when op trappers rocked :p (but, I think a sleep prot timer should be there for when ko traps hit so you can't just potentially ko someone over and over).

Alternatively, boost the % of it landing. So there is at least a tactical decision to make. Right now, the tactic is easy - don't use KO traps.

It's not fun for anyone to have to wade through limitless KO traps along the road, possibly several in the same room, having to make a save for each.

At least with most of the other KO abilities in the game combat will start on a failure, and even with lullaby the bard is guaranteed to be in the room giving you SOME chance to get them.

I think the main issue is not being able to blackjack or garrotte someone after they have missed a ko trap - if you set a KO trap, sure you now have small chance of knocking them out with no risk to you, except that you've granted them protection from jacking/garrotting too. Makes the circumstances you'd want to mess with a KO trap much much rarer. Maybe it's a good way to give your friends protection from other thieves?

It's not that I want to be able to use KO traps until my heart is content, but to make the choice to use one more viable.

Now, you are looking at:

Jack:
very good chance you'll KO them, slight risk you'll get snot beat out of you, they'll yell, and you'll get flagged, and you can't try again for awhile

Trap:
slight chance you'll KO them with no risk to you, but good chance they'll miss and now also you can't jack them period.

Could you make strengthened gear have a green aura? I mean a green aura fades or something like that already when people that are not outies try to use it. It is also slightly annoying if you go through gear a lot to figure out what is and is not strengthened if you either lore/id or try to strenghten it all again.

n/t

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right now it sucks to raid a guild/cabal sometimes because your followers might flee inside if you have to stop and rest. can they be denied entrance as well so they either flee back the way they came or die trying?

n/t

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It's always bugged me that I can see every other experience stat in game, but I can't see my observation points earned when I buy the PBF.

n/t

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Dear Santa:

Could you please instruct the guildmasters to inform members of their guild, at the appropriate time, that there are sleek wands out there that are bonded and unique to them...

PS: I've been good this year!


I can see this working either by class or by alignment. Perhaps the guildmaster could say something like this....

Evil:
Your guildmaster tells you: "I have bonded a sleek black wand to your dark soul. If great power is what you yearn for, seek out your prize. I have hidden it well." (read help ###)

Conjurer:
Your guildmaster tells you: "I see a connection between your soul and powerful wands. Seek them out and great power shall be at your fingertips." (read help ###)


The help file would give a brief explenation of how the sleek system works.

Maybe something similar would prompt a mage to start the detect artifact process...

I'd rather just have the guildmaster berate you if you choose "I am new to the mud" and a mage. "You picked a mage? Even though we told you not to? So I guess you're like retarded or something?"

I've added a pointer to help sleek at 35.

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I.e. % of lifetime that the character spent with pumping adrenaline

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These are the cosmetic thingies on my Santa Zulg list

Make an echo when Calcify kills flying (Include Windwalk)
-- Make an echo that shows hollow bones allowing you to fly

Make an echo when field dressing cures or stalls something like bleeding and such.

n/t

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Should be quick and easy.

This wont really benefit anyone but me.

n/t

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Someone told me there was a STINKY tag on an item when I played Stevers.

I spent 1 RL hour trying to find the skunk just to find out that it was a lie.

Can you implement a stinky tag to the skunk items is what I really wanted to know

*you* get the (stinky) flag. Also if a trap thief stench cloud gets you. Don't think there are stinky-flagged items.

Lowbie trapper skills loving. I haven't gotten high enough level to comment on trap ingredients and stuff but off the top of my heads :

1) Bag of tricks. This thing does like hits/wounds when you get it and its a two round lag skill - misses often and does 0-hour faerie fire and 0-hour blindness (aka poor man's dirt kick). I know it gets better when you're near hero but it should be better when you get it too, ie, more damage, at least 1 hour blindness/faerie fire.

2) Smoke bomb - Great skill, shouldn't be 0 hours when you get it. Increase the duration.

3) Stench cloud - See above, should have longer duration.

4) Trap ingredients - drop their weight dramatically. Half the ones I've collected walking around are 2+ lbs each.

Anywho, pls pls pls pls . Thanks.

-DC

>1) Bag of tricks. This thing does like hits/wounds when you
>get it and its a two round lag skill - misses often and does
>0-hour faerie fire and 0-hour blindness (aka poor man's dirt
>kick). I know it gets better when you're near hero but it
>should be better when you get it too, ie, more damage, at
>least 1 hour blindness/faerie fire.

Santa Zulg abides.

>2) Smoke bomb - Great skill, shouldn't be 0 hours when you get
>it. Increase the duration.

Santa Zulg abides.

>3) Stench cloud - See above, should have longer duration.

It's already got a decent duration, left alone.

>4) Trap ingredients - drop their weight dramatically. Half
>the ones I've collected walking around are 2+ lbs each.

Be more specific.

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If you want, I can send you a list of the ones Ive found and their weights so you can review them/make a decision, but they do seem rather heavy, pretty crippling for a gnome or drow or felar thief.