ToEE Suggestions Thread

I know we're all supposed to be focusing on KotB, but I'm afraid ToEE will forever be an 'unfinished' module. Sorry, Ted. :shrug:

Here's a few more ToEE-related suggestions. See what you think.

A Badger in every driveway: If the Badgers are the local law, it might be appropriate to post one or two at the Church of St. Cuthbert, the Grove, and the Town Defense or whatever they call Kenter's place. We've already got a badger at the inn, which is cool, and of course they're all over the place at the castle. Some questions - are the badgers and the 'village troops,' which Rufus commands, one and the same? If so, what kind of numbers would they have in total? If there were enough to spare, I'd think they might post two at each location where they offer security services. If somebody got shit-faced at the inn and wanted to brawl, for example, they'd like to have two guys available to beat him down.

Security starts at home, part I: Can we make residences and businesses unaccessable during overnight hours? It's nice having Brother Smythe available for that 3 a.m. craving for a masterwork dagger, but he doesn't really work 24 hours a day, does he? I would think regular businesses would close at night, but the church would probably be a 24/7 operation. Maybe Ronald could work the nightshift. This might seem an irritating proposition, but remember, immersion goes a long way, and in most places people sleep at night.

The Hommlet Help Board: I've been playing a LN campaign and trying to RP it as honestly as possible, which means I tend not to go wandering into people's homes at random. Consequently, I haven't gotten any hooks to a great deal of the Hommlet quests. We could fix that by having a notice board somewhere in town, kind of like the bulletin board at the local community college. "Notice: Tarim is looking for assistance with a Deklo wood shortage. If your interested, go see him at his house on the southwest side of town." Etc., etc. Problem solved. I think they did that in the original PoR goldbox game.

Security starts at home, part II: Some key buildings in town should have limited admittance. It's kind of foolish to think that they'd just let you go wandering around in the castle, for example. One way to solve this would be to have someone challenge you once you enter the building, sort of like Clamert does with Terjon, only it should happen immediately after the map change. If you didn't have some legit reason for being there ("I understand the church serving lady's looking for flour, based on what I read on the notice board. Take me to her at once!"), you'd have to leave. This of course wouldn't apply to walk-in businesses during normal hours of operation.

Sammy the rat-faced boy: This one still irritates the shit out of me. I go to Nulb, see Otis' apprentice Sammy there, and he offers to give up Otis' stash. I either say "No way!" and it goes no further, or I try to get to the bottom of this property theft proposal (being LN) and suddenly find myself a part of the conspiracy. There should be a way to simply turn Sammy the rat-faced boy in, or at least tell him to shut up and get back to work.

That's enough for now. If anybody else has some ideas (reasonable, please), post them here.

 

How about just locking their doors at night? If you can't get in, you can't trade with them. You could always pick the lock, but maybe a percentage chance of alerting the badgers could be added?




Almost forgot - I'd still like to see Burne's Beavers added too.

 

These are all good ideas, and things that WILL occur in KotB (you may have already noticed you get challenged when you wander into places like the Guildhouse and the Bailiff's Tower). Likewise all the traders will go home at night and tell you to come back in the morning.

C-Blue - are u saying using standpoints across maps breaks the link with the shop box? Thats been tested? Hmmm... its a bugger but its not surprising.

To make doors unaccessable according to time of day etc, perhaps they should work not as direct portals but as sectored scenery that have a san_use script attached. Then the script takes into account whether you have the password, or whether you have the key, or whether it is daytime etc. A bit of a pain to change them but its only a handful, right? And the result would be the same - u click on it, if it is good to go, you get teleported. If not, u get an appropriate floatline.

[Edit] Of course my main suggestion would be PUT THIS EFFORT INTO KOTB!!! :rant:

 

Well Nira moves around the room with day/night standpoints quite comfortably. Also, as I mentioned somewhere, I moved the cabinet-makers box out to an open area of his sector to see if it would help it respawn (it didn't) but despite the long distance (across one sector) it still functioned fine. I would tihnk anywhere in the sector is fine.

 

Again you guy's miss the obvious, and easiest solution. Add (is_daytime == 1) to the requirements of the barter response during the day, and a (is_daytime != 1) to the requirements of the "I only work during the day" response.