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jaxad0127 wrote:The spore-shooting mushrooms would be good enemies (stationary and auto attacking).
Thoughts of such enemies have occurred to me. I had an idea for one monster that is a giant, floating puffball mushroom. Attacking it causes it to release toxic spores, and killing it will make the thing explode, releasing it's poisonous spores over an area.

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Falcata wrote:Thoughts of such enemies have occurred to me. I had an idea for one monster that is a giant, floating puffball mushroom. Attacking it causes it to release toxic spores, and killing it will make the thing explode, releasing it's poisonous spores over an area.
I like the idea. I think they should be non-intellegent though. Just floating around, maybe releasing poisones spores at random all the time. Like an area of effect spell.
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I suppose that could work, but I'm not sure if that would be possible on the current server.
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Don't concern yourself with making anything too complex for the current server, since it's not worth the effort. Using the current mushroom map on the current server is great and I'm sure will satisfy a few people, but its a waste of time and energy to get complex with it. Any creatures you have should be no more complex than the ones that are currently implemented.

That said, brainstorming ideas for the new server is just fine. ..and I'm sure the new server will ultimately be able to portray any creatures you can think up. (within reason, of course.. ;) )

edit: How about a mushroom that does the whole "mushroom-growing-on-your-head" thing, like in Earthbound. When you get mushroomed, your movement controls randomly recalibrate, so that about the time you figure out the new calibration and have taken a few steps, it changes again. Just as an idea for expanding on the status-ailments, so it's not just poison, poison, poison. ..
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Regarding "interesting" ailments, how about hallucination? In the rogue-like Moria game there's a hallucination mushroom. If you accidentally eat it (not knowing what it will do), you will see random monsters appear around you, for a limited time.
Even in that text-based game this is surprisingly real; if you suddenly see some "L"s and "V"s and lots lower-case characters around you, you inevitably break to sweat :-) . If you walk into such a hallucinated character, it disappears (IIRC they also disappear every few moves, but new "monsters" come up as well). But there are also real monsters between the fake ones; so you can't just walk along, because one of those V's might be a real Vampire...

In that game, there was the additional problem with hallucination that you couldn't just use the usual "rest for 200 turns" command, because the rest would be interrupted whenever a monsters moved (read: always)... So you had to press the "rest" key around 400 times until the effect was gone - all the time seeing the monsters around you :-)
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oliver wrote:Regarding "interesting" ailments, how about hallucination? In the rogue-like Moria game there's a hallucination mushroom. If you accidentally eat it (not knowing what it will do), you will see random monsters appear around you, for a limited time.
Even in that text-based game this is surprisingly real; if you suddenly see some "L"s and "V"s and lots lower-case characters around you, you inevitably break to sweat :-) . If you walk into such a hallucinated character, it disappears (IIRC they also disappear every few moves, but new "monsters" come up as well). But there are also real monsters between the fake ones; so you can't just walk along, because one of those V's might be a real Vampire...

In that game, there was the additional problem with hallucination that you couldn't just use the usual "rest for 200 turns" command, because the rest would be interrupted whenever a monsters moved (read: always)... So you had to press the "rest" key around 400 times until the effect was gone - all the time seeing the monsters around you :-)
hmm, regarding hallucination, maybe some particle or overlay effect can come to use...
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Well, the problem with that is that the game is open source. A person could just edit the particle definition files so that they don't do anything. The monster hallucination thing would be easier, since the server could just be modified to send false monster data to the client of a hallucinating character.
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Well technically, even then the client could intercept the false monsters and not display them, right?
Although that would probably be a lot harder.
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It is not really hard to make the false monsters undistinguishable from the real ones. It is not a problem for the server to send data about false monsters that looks exactly like data for real ones. When a character hallucinates the server could just spawn and process some additional monsters that behave normally but only interact with the hallucinating character. The server could even send false damage data to the client. It would be pretty convincing.
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Ok, I've been trying to find the common things in caves, first thing I noticed is most of them have horizontal stripes that represent ages and ground layers

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Another thing is the existence of stalagmites (going up) and stalactites (going down) but only in caves with high concentration of minerals
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Trying new colors, a green cave, taking the caves pictures I found but with some TMW style, :)

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When it is supposed to be a stone wall of a green/yellowish mineral you should lower the saturation a lot.
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I like green on the walls, but I think it should be on the walls, like moss and junk like that. Maybe there should still be a few patches of bare, cave wall poking through the green. It would probably only be a small difference in color, but it'd be a moderate difference in texture. (like moss against rock, for the sake of the example)
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Heres the moss I made for the Forest tileset and never used it, also started this rock texture some time ago and didn't use it.

You might be able to use them here, If you want I can create a wall with them.

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