Zavero Posted February 9, 2017 Report Share Posted February 9, 2017 Maybe make the dragons grow with the age of the character. As they grow they become stronger and give different benefits or more potent benefits. Perhaps it would help promote longevity of characters to see exactly what each dragon does as it gets older. I always wanted a pet in game... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trick Posted February 9, 2017 Report Share Posted February 9, 2017 1 hour ago, Zavero said: Maybe make the dragons grow with the age of the character. As they grow they become stronger and give different benefits or more potent benefits. Perhaps it would help promote longevity of characters to see exactly what each dragon does as it gets older. I always wanted a pet in game... It could replace cabal pets. Instead of a Vanguard, you could have a white dragon. This could be done with RP point investment to keep it being a rare thing. 200RP to have your dragon mature and become something better. IE: A mount or a pet that is ONLY able to attack NPCs. It'd be immune from player damage and unable to hurt players unless it is specifically replacing a cabal pet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f0xx Posted February 9, 2017 Report Share Posted February 9, 2017 Or how about we keep them just the way they are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zavero Posted February 9, 2017 Report Share Posted February 9, 2017 7 minutes ago, f0xx said: Or how about we keep them just the way they are. I suppose we could do that. I personally don't want to play the same game I played for the last 20 years. I would like to see more ingenuity and updates to attract people. That is why I left AR so many years ago, because FL provided several great changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trick Posted February 9, 2017 Report Share Posted February 9, 2017 It's because he can't get one. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f0xx Posted February 10, 2017 Report Share Posted February 10, 2017 11 hours ago, Zavero said: I always wanted a pet in game... You should check the Bazaar then. The pets there are pretty cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulmusdorn Posted February 11, 2017 Report Share Posted February 11, 2017 On 08/02/2017 at 6:55 PM, Manual Labour said: They are all good but different. I have noticed they choose which dragon based on RP primarily, at least that's what I think. They might also base it on your race/class as different dragons also bolster different stats. So dex based classes might get a certain dragon over str based classes etc... But that might just have been coincidence in my own experience. This is true. Its based normally on your class as there are different stats. Giving you a dragon that is +1 int and wis on your fire giant warrior is a little dumb Fire dragons are the hardest to get. They have the biggest pk advantage (so minor) so they are normally reserved for special cases IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trick Posted February 11, 2017 Report Share Posted February 11, 2017 How often does the Staff consider renaming dragons? IE: Ulmusdorn is the one that checks the desc, so you decide to give a different pet like a hummingbird or an eagle, something like that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulmusdorn Posted February 13, 2017 Report Share Posted February 13, 2017 Never. Cause you need access to edit the vnums. So lloth or higher would need to do it and they don't have time to check descs. So you'd need me to be so impressed I tell someone else to do it. That has never happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fool_Hardy Posted February 13, 2017 Report Share Posted February 13, 2017 Challenge accepted. But it will have to wait. I have a date with condeath first. Need to remember the feeling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lloth Posted February 13, 2017 Report Share Posted February 13, 2017 More accurately, I don't need to edit vnums, I just change string values on that specific instance of the object. But still not something ulmusdorn can do. I have been known to do things like this for RP participation and mini-events, but it is very rare in the expenditure - as well it should be, considering its an RP expenditure under normal circumstances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zavero Posted February 13, 2017 Report Share Posted February 13, 2017 I can attest, Lloth gave Duhnkal a set of Dwarven Dentures in a little role play gathering we had. Two other folks got restring items as well. Sadly, none of the characters are around now. The elf involved got a pair of boots made from from the skin of an another elf if i recall correctly. It was awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magick Posted February 13, 2017 Report Share Posted February 13, 2017 6 minutes ago, Zavero said: I can attest, Lloth gave Duhnkal a set of Dwarven Dentures in a little role play gathering we had. Two other folks got restring items as well. Sadly, none of the characters are around now. The elf involved got a pair of boots made from from the skin of an another elf if i recall correctly. It was awesome. But were they restrung dragons? No, they probably weren't. Restringing an object, if you have the command, is easy. Restring items with progs on them could very well break the prog (for that item) if you're not careful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zavero Posted February 13, 2017 Report Share Posted February 13, 2017 5 minutes ago, Magick said: But were they restrung dragons? No, they probably weren't. Restringing an object, if you have the command, is easy. Restring items with progs on them could very well break the prog (for that item) if you're not careful. No, they were not dragons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fool_Hardy Posted February 14, 2017 Report Share Posted February 14, 2017 Glasses, boots, lights, heck I even had my own personal Blonkeywan. But its not what the item is, or does that matters, its the feeling that "this character" has started to make an impact. A primer if you will that, while not required, does often assist in starting the pump in my RP well. Sometimes the Imm has time and cares to share it and the gift comes in a special way, other times we see an immortal gives you <this>. Some would say its the thought that counts, and it does, if the immortals delivered the dragon in a special way that becomes a memory, if they hand me the dragon I ignore the statement. Intent on "discovering" the prize later and RPing my confusion as to where it came from, or to pull it out later and examine it for a different RP angle. Least favorite statement in History = An Immortal forces you to wear a tiny earth dragon. Happened on a character I wanted to go gladiator with. While it would not have stopped me, that particular characters RP was utter fear of magic. I remember traveling with a dark knight around L13 when the dragon cast armor, I screamed like a girl and attacked imbessar to get the stupid cursed dragon from around my neck. Dark knight was a bit PO, yeah, sorry about that but RP > friendship, my fear > your life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lloth Posted February 14, 2017 Report Share Posted February 14, 2017 Restringing dragons shouldn't break the prog if it is written with that forethought. You can assign a !<vnum>! entry in the name field, and call the prog using that vnum and the variable itself reads the $n (short description) which works with restrings. It would have to be written to explicitly echo (with color) the dragon portion... Which would make the damage type weird (ie flamestrike wouldn't be fire damage) and in the instance of the fire dragon have a second bit for the flameblind chance... As opposed to just calling the spell through the item... In short, simple speak.... It would take a very backwards and needlessly complicated prog to break description dragons and restringing. While I haven't read the prog... I can't see any reason to believe it was done this way. If it is, I may just update it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magick Posted February 14, 2017 Report Share Posted February 14, 2017 Coincidentally, that's more or less what I put into a DM. The dragons' progs I've seen, restringing them won't break them, no. But that doesn't mean that other progs won't break if you restring something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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