Magic?

[freddyfox]

Huh boy.

Anyways, what would you think if magic was added to 2001?

Let's say the player has to do some complicated quest to get the ability to use magic. Then, to get spells, well, I made a little system for that.


To get, for example, a fire based spell, you'd get one pearl and one durby, and bring them to the magic shop. After giving him the durby and the pearl, he'll give you the words for the magic spell. Then, you go over to a table and "scribe" them, sort of like using the rolling pin on the dough. (Except with a paper and a pencil.) Once you've finished scribing the words down, you'd get the finished spell scroll.

To cast a spell, you simply say the words outloud (I.E: "Akazm Forkan") and then use the spell scroll with the D key. Then, the spell would sap some Magic Power or a Reagant, and would cast.

Thoughts?

[BruceLee2000]

why was magic never put on classic!??!@ yes i want magic :MAGICENDOWED:

[Tyhm]

I don't know, and I don't know if we're ever going to get it at this rate...for one, playermp is server side so we can't edit it on a free server, for two, Geshtar's fallen off the world...

[milotheman]

thym is close to his 1337 post

[Butz]

Hmm...Magic would be cool, but maybe instead of having to shout the words out, you just use the item, but have a charge time...
(Either a set time that the spell needs to charge before releasing, or a spell that becomes more powerful depending on how long you charge it, either way, getting hit would either cancel the spell, or reduce the charge time significantly...) That way you could balance out spellcasters against fighters....

[WindStar]

Yeah! magic would be sweet! the scroll writeing would be good but mabie add a spell book! have it hold 1-10 of them so you can just read them from the book and not rescribe those 1-10 spells and have the book cost a lot of monies like 200g-500g

[SkooL]

It would be cool, but it would be mainly used to player kill.

[Tyhm]

Simple. Don't make any spells that can hit players. Problem solved.
Make a haste spell, a flying spell, a burn-NPC spell...

[freddyfox]

Originally posted by Tyhm
Simple. Don't make any spells that can hit players. Problem solved.
Make a haste spell, a flying spell, a burn-NPC spell...

Those spells sound good. An ice barrier that could block arrows might be a nice spell as well. We could add spells, just make them not be able to hit players.

Making some spells that could hit baddies would be good. I'm pretty sure they're scriptable so that they can only hit baddies and not players.

[WindStar]

Originally posted by Tyhm
Simple. Don't make any spells that can hit players. Problem solved.
Make a haste spell, a flying spell, a burn-NPC spell...

You could make a healing spell but then agein there is food but say you could use it bomy or human? or add a shapeshifting spell! or even a teleport (no more unsticking or running) lol i dont know thym's ideas are good

[Brady2]

Jadis:

Reagants and incantations are nice because I love Ultima series.

[Juron Pilo]

I've commented about this several times although usually buried under 100 other bigger complaints... total lack of npc weapons in general for one... lost cause you know... *sighs*.... what I like about spell casting is that it would add a little strategy to a rather mundane fighting system.

[crazyforgirls]

What about a transformation spell where you can change into a person or bomy like if your a person you could take the shape of anything and same if a bomy plus you could transform from a bomy to a human and vice versa

[Falcor]

Free servers presumably can edit MP client side. Its just that p2P server cant.

[Falcor]

Just like Server.flags are nt sent to the client on P2P servers but it is on Regular servers.