Messages posted by: BotFodder

I understand your concerns and empathize.

I think one of the things a healer could get away with saying (depending on how the resurrection is handled) is "I couldn't get there quick enough."

There's going to need to be tweaks regarding how long from death a player's body stays; it's pretty short now, but for good reason. You don't want them hanging around too much; computer wise, it's inefficient to have an extra non-interactive object that's not part of the map just laying there (and we don't want to get into what it takes to have an extra interactive one either).

It all depends on how Dru is going to implement it. Without further details, we can only throw ideas out there.

If it's not based on a Medic getting to a specific body, then yes - I agree it should probably be random. Besides, having to select the player might take too long and give the monsters plenty of time to find said medic while he's trapped in a menu somewhere and toast them.

Hey Druid ...

How hard would it be to make the medic weapons not "infinite", but more like "resupplied"?

Just the medic weapon, not all of them ...

This might slow the xp rate they're getting - or at least make them be a little more picky about healing people.

Perhaps have the weapon react as if it's being resupplied at their exp healing level ...

If you can't easily do just one weapon, then it's a bad idea.

Because otherwise they aren't supposed to have resupply.

During an early wave's usual banter about the new stuff, we had a couple of ideas pop up. I can even claim one of them as my own.

1. Give pets a different skin. I only overheard this and haven't really put much thought into how difficult it would be to implement. The complaint about pets is that the halo isn't sufficient to show the differences between pets and monsters. Mind you, I don't have that complaint myself (at least not as strongly as I've heard it voiced); that's just what I hear. It was an idea though; not sure who voiced it.

2. This one is mine: about the resurrection idea, we tossed around a couple of things but the first thing that came out was make it so the healer that does the resurrecting looses health (not just adrenaline). So a simple way to think about it would be to have them, if they were at 100 (later we discussed requiring them to be at full health or greater) and they brought someone back, the person would come back at 50 - but then the medic would be taken *down* to 50. Logic being that bringing someone back from the dead is a big thing and you shouldn't get away with just a simple adrenaline expendature - you gotta donate a little blood to the cause.

Mind you you might be way ahead of us in this idea thing and you can use or toss whatever you like.

BotFodder (real name Eric) - and if I ever feel like starting a second or third character, look for BotBait or something along those lines. For the time being, I'm sticking with what has becmoe a weapons master. Although, given my occasional game performance, "Master" isn't an accurate term.

I'm rabid about SCUBA diving, I was working on a book (fiction) before I found this server, and at 35 I'm thankfully not the youngest or oldest on. I do have my BA in Criminology and my MS in Management Information Systems. I work as a network admin at the University of South Florida's Tampa Library. Basically, I'm an overglorified PC repair tech.

One small request: No in game requests for PC help, please.

Avoid helping me play Tech Support Bingo, especially when I'm not at work. I go crazy at work, and use UT to retain my sanity. Tech Support questions during the game might result in a deemer at point blank range.

You'll see me on usually from around 3pm - 9pm during the week and pretty much most of the day when I'm awake during the weekends, but I'm planning on cutting back a little - I want to get back to my book.

CodeBender posted the "Bender" skin and I am shamelessly using it as well. If you don't have it, it's probably a good thing ... the skin has Bender chats that I like to use from time to time. Particularly "Bender is Great! Bender is Great! Bender Bender Bender Bender ..." or "Bring it on, baby!"

I also have admin'd a MUD (multi user dungeon) - an old text based one I still host at 131.247.113.1 3003 (telnet to that address and port). I don't do much with it aside from host though ...

If you've heard about my New Years SCUBA trip I took, well, I have the gory details available:

http://scuba.lib.usf.edu/scuba/log/showtrip.php?TRIPID=15

It's amazing I got this done (as well as the DVD I made for my fellow divers who were on the trip) with all of the UT I've been playing ...