Suggestion

Flail... for some reason i dont like flails, but im all for a spear

 

Flail = Blunt Arms (?)
Spear = ?

 

Will you throw the spear, or just jab with it?

 

Me Tarzan. You Jane.

 

There's not really a good catagory to place a spear into as shuri pointed out. Swords? no.... Axes? not even close... and I doubt thothie is gonna figure out how to make and balance new catagories of weapons anytime soon.

 

hmmm... if it is a halberd it will fit into axes...

 

I doesn't look like it would be too hard to make a new weapon category, I probably wont attempt it though :O.

 

Spears don't fit into any of the current weapon categories. Adding a new weapon category means that every character will have the ability to dramatically raise their level by training the new category, so spears will probably be a no-no. They'll probably be in MS:S though.

Flails rock. I want a flail.

 

Adding new weapon categories == Changing how chars load == Char wipe != What Thothie likes to do

 

making a few assumptions, I don't think it would be that hard.

assuming that the skills are in an array (which i believe they are), and that they are stored in that array [binary+encryptions+whatever]. It wouldn't be hard to make a simple program to read in the old chars, and output a new one with the couple of extra bytes.

but than again, MS:C isn't straightforwardly coded, and its systems tend to clash with one another.

 

Any thing messing with character files (particularly programs that would involve decompiling them in any fashion) are a huge no-no. Thothie has forbidden me to even look into the files that contain how the chars are encrypted.

 

Well obviously it is something that Thothie would have to do. I was merely suggesting that it could be possible to add another category without doing an entire character wipe.

 

Surely a spear is a bow (if you can throw it?)

Why not add it to blunts, and rename blunts *takes a drag* to blunts and spikes or something...?

 

Could put them into archery and rename it to Projectile Combat, or something like that.

 

or make it a miniature spear and put it in small arms

 

If it's small enough to be in small arms then it's just a small, pointy stick >_>

 

Why not assign it to 2 skills, like axe+blunt?

 

Thats actually a pretty good idea. Don't think thats possible



.... yet.

 

It isn't possible, at the moment, and making it possible would take a LOT of work.

 

Turn 'Blunt Arms' into 'Martial Weapons.'

 

Would be awesome to have 2 catagory weapons, would also be insane with the code we have now, but mabe once the code gets a little less "Omg I just looked and the script for 'x' and now my eyes are bleeding" it'll be possible.

 

Scripts don't hurt, just the code ;-) And I don't know that anyone would want to touch the exp function again any time soon >_> It's painful, what with the "Well, there's some here.. Some there.. Some in the client.dll.. Some in the ms.dll OW MY EYES THEY BLEED OH WHY DO THEY BLEED SO?"

 

I have the code maybe I should sit and look over it.

after all complex code with randomness seems to be my forty, I should really stay away from those 4D and 5D arrays I enjoy building.