I have an Idea - faster movement

Cain Freemont · Post by **Cain Freemont** » Tue Apr 23, 2002 12:47 am

Hey. I have an idea. It wouldnt be too hard to make movement of the sprites faster would it? I mean, there are many benefits to being able to move faster at will. Maybe the tab key would enable a faster movement of the characters or something.

Just a thought!

~Cain~

Blutrabe · Post by **Blutrabe** » Sun May 05, 2002 7:31 am

This idea isn't so bad. But i think horses were a little bit better. Erverybody could buy a horse and call it with a shout. Just my idea.

Cain Freemont · Post by **Cain Freemont** » Sun May 05, 2002 8:41 am

Yea, I see your point...But they did say that horses would have to be new picture imports and stuff like that. That could be a while. My idea just seemed a little better, for a temporary time

Ishans Schatten · Post by **Ishans Schatten** » Sun May 05, 2002 10:13 pm

I dont like the Idea,

the Isle is in the moment so small that a faster movement make no sense

Lloyd · Post by **Lloyd** » Sun May 05, 2002 10:54 pm

I like it but... needs new GFX for runing...

Cain Freemont · Post by **Cain Freemont** » Mon May 06, 2002 3:36 am

Ishans.

I don't know if this comes off as rude to you or not (and if it does I am sorry) but how can it not make sense? Yes, the isle is small, but it would be nice to be able to go faster? It would give Illarion a more realistic sense too, wouldn't it? Of course, there are always people who want to disagree with whatever for whatever reasons..but I don't think that my idea should have been shot down so fast without good consideration.

Gurok · Post by **Gurok** » Mon May 06, 2002 9:03 am

I would give my kidney for a horse! What a wonderful idea... for the players not the programmers

. Im sure its way to much work than they want, but hey, seriously, if they needed a kidney, they could have mine if they let me have a horse! hehe. Well only one of them could have a kidney as I need at least one to you know... LIVE!

Ishans Schatten · Post by **Ishans Schatten** » Mon May 06, 2002 12:30 pm

@ Cain

No you wasnt rude.

1. in the moment you can reach every point of the island in lesser than 2 Minutes. If double the speed you win only one Minute, and what is so important that you have not 1 minute more time?
(It would make sense if we have two town and you want travel between there.)

2. it is unrealistic. In the Mediage only a very few and rich Knights had horses or a few soldiers of the king;
and you cant start to run because you wear (most time)a very heavy Armor or a lot stuff with you.

3. you need new graphics for horses, horses need stables and food, you need graphics for every typ of character on a horse; or new animatet gfx for runnig of every character typ

4. I think ( i dont know) that the server is in the moment too slow, we lag allready if we walk, what would be if everybody try to run or sit on a horse?

5. The differente races, have you ever heard about an Hobbit or an Dwarf who wants to ride a horse?

But perhaps it would be a good idea if people who are very fast ((high agility)) move faster than other. This would make more sense.

Erdrick · Post by **Erdrick** » Mon May 06, 2002 1:32 pm

Hobbits and Dwarves normally ride ponies, but there was a tale in the book, "The Hobbit" where it told of (Probably a Took) that rode a horse and hit a goblin with a club, knocking his head clear off his shoulders. The goblin leaders' head rolled into a hole about 100 yards away, which formed the first looks at Golf.

Sharag · Post by **Sharag** » Mon May 06, 2002 1:35 pm

@Gurok: An orc on a horse? Never heard of. *g*

@Ishans Schatten: As far as I know, people with high agility already move much faster.

@Erdrick: Sure, that you don't mean cricket?

Lloyd · Post by **Lloyd** » Mon May 06, 2002 1:44 pm

WHY ARE YOU ALL TALKING ABOUT HORSES, THEY ARE NEVER GONNA BE PUT IN ITS ONE OF THE OLDEST SUGGESTIONS!

the topic is to be able to walk faster with a hot key, which needs more GFX for running. about the two minute thing, I dunno how you do it, takes five for me..... another thing that came up is the whole knight thing, I would guess that since mostare wearing armour, the run would slow down 50%.

Ishans Schatten · Post by **Ishans Schatten** » Mon May 06, 2002 2:30 pm

@ Lloyd if you read my post again then you would see that i talked about horses AND walking/running. From the town i need only ca 2 Minutes to every point of the map, and even if you need 5 Minutes. You will only win 2,5 minutes if you walk with the !DOUBLE SPEED!. I dont think this is really so many that we need this function.

@ Sharag If ever thougt the speed difference have something to do with the internet connection

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And if you run by pressing a key there will come a lot of other question, How long can you run?
Can you run with heavy armor? Can you run throug the deep sand of dessert? Can you attack while running? How fast would you run?

If you want to include something like stammina (like diablo2) would this make to much traffic
( i only read this in other post)

Like i say in the moment the map is so small. In other games you need more than a hour from one town to another. If we have a bigger map than it would be usefull. But i still think that in the moment we need this function. This is only what i think.

Neonfire · Post by **Neonfire** » Mon May 06, 2002 6:19 pm

The movement speed depends on the stat points you gave your character in the creation phase at the beginning (I don't know if you recognized yet that different chars have different movement speeds).

But in my eyes there's no need to make them faster. You can cross the whole island in less than 5 minutes.

Horses were planned long time ago. But it's a problem to implement them. There are more basic things to do first.

Lloyd · Post by **Lloyd** » Mon May 06, 2002 8:49 pm

man, forget the frikken horses, not gonna happen.

Khanor · Post by **Khanor** » Wed May 08, 2002 9:27 pm

Whoever said knights can't run? Sure maybe they can't with all their armour on, but if they took it off I'm sure they could. But is this a good idea? To run I mean. Now Cain no disrespect but, say you were mining and some guy steals your shovel, by the time the lag would have finished he/she would be away too fast, all you could get is their number but finding someone is hard enough at this speed.

Cain Freemont · Post by **Cain Freemont** » Thu May 09, 2002 12:27 am

@Khanor.

I see your point, and no disrespect was taken. However, if you think of it on the level that simply running is going to cause more thieves and such...then why do we have a suggestion board? To make observations to how the game could be better and ramble on endlessly for something that won't happen? I'm sure that is not what is intended in this proposal board.

@ Everyone else

While we are on the topic of going places faster...Why not make a spell that would allow you to go from one point to another? It would take some work, but it would be a pretty cool thing to do.

Gronham · Post by **Gronham** » Tue May 14, 2002 3:02 pm

Faster movement good, but only with special items

Iori Yagami · Post by **Iori Yagami** » Thu May 16, 2002 2:59 am

i think there should be attribute enhancing potions that raise a specific attribute for a limited time. and the better the skill, the longer it would be and would also raise the attribute higher.

for example:
an agility potion would increase agility
beginner skills --> 10 seconds agility+2
expert (max) skills --> 2minutes agility +10
an intelligence potion would increase intelligence
beginner skills --> 3 seconds intelligence+2
expert (max) skills --> 1minute intelligence+8

those above are just examples of my attribute potion idea. and of course, since it is a potion, druids are the only people that can make them. and i also suggest that only one potion be allowed consumation at a time. and when the first one is not "time's up" then the second one would not have an effect but be wasted. (this is to prevent continuous strength or intelligence increases)

Astral · Post by **Astral** » Wed May 29, 2002 3:53 am

The intentions are good, but you have to include something for mages as well. Potions of that skill would give an EXTREME advantage in combat, and would sell for very high prices to mages, giving the druids the great advantage. Agility plus 10 would make a HUGE difference, someone with an agility of 28 could run around town invincible.