Stacking commands while casting spells!

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Stacking commands while casting spells!

Postby Gyrx » Sun Oct 27, 2002 6:12 am

Now, I know we've mentioned this before and several excellent suggestions were made, such as making it toggleable..but i have another suggestion..

Don't make spells stackable, but at least communication. Example:

I start casting inferno and i want to gsay, acc, or tell someone something i'd have to wait and stuff..well could it be made that tells and the like would be stacked, just as if i was in bash lag?

Personally, it would be highly convenient Image

Thanks for your time!

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Postby Gyrx » Sun Oct 27, 2002 7:49 am

doh..wrong forum Image

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Postby gordex » Sun Oct 27, 2002 10:58 am

I disagree. The less stackable stuff the better. There will be plenty of times when half the group is dead in the blink of an eye, and you have a bunch of shit stacked up when you really wanted to cast the fheal, or dragonscale, or rescue your healer. Since you can only do so many things in a combat round, you will eventually find out that there will come a time when you stack a bunch of commands up, and it will screw you in the end.

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Postby Ragorn » Sun Oct 27, 2002 2:33 pm

Duris's spell system lags you when you cast a spell just long enough for the spell to end. The result is that you can string spells together or stack commands to be completed after the spell goes off. The huge downside is that you can't abort spells, since you're in command lag. On Sojourn, I think I'd rather have the ability to abort spells rather than the convenience of stacking gsays.

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Postby Gyrx » Sun Oct 27, 2002 4:35 pm

Since when did I care about what Duris does? Image

I'd still like to be able to stack communication.

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Postby rylan » Sun Oct 27, 2002 8:05 pm

Personally I don't want any command stacking during casting. As Ragorn eluded to, I can just see having a couple spellout triggers go off in a round and that making a heal cast slightly later than it would otherwise.
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Postby Ragorn » Sun Oct 27, 2002 10:47 pm

Would you give up your abort command to stack communication? I wouldn't :P

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Postby Gyrx » Sun Oct 27, 2002 11:21 pm

Hrmzz..ya..i'm beginning to see the implications you guys are pointing out. Maybe make it a toggable feature so we could do it for exp'ing! Image

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Postby Elseenas » Tue Oct 29, 2002 2:38 am

Ragorn:

Why either/or?

Just evaluate them briefly to see if they are an "abort" command and, if not, queue them.

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Postby Ragorn » Tue Oct 29, 2002 4:17 am

The way it's set up on duris, and the only way I've ever seen it implemented, is using command lag. That's the same lag you see when you issue a bash command, that kind of nebulous time when no other commands go through, but they all stack up when the command lag is over.

Putting in a different sort of lag where it filters abort might work, but it would require a different set of code from what I've seen. So I'm not the one to comment on whether that's feasible or not Image

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Postby Gormal » Tue Oct 29, 2002 8:01 pm

get aim gryx

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Postby moritheil » Tue Oct 29, 2002 8:46 pm

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Ragorn:
<B>Would you give up your abort command to stack communication? I wouldn't :P
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Agree mightily!

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