Simple idea list
Just ideas that would be fairly easy for someone to code. Mostly just so I don't forget what I am planning to hopefully someday cod in if I can ever get off my ass and make IVAN compile at home. Of course if someone else wanted to code one of my ideas that would speed the process... Artifact gauntlets (Fist of Storms/Fist of Suns) Fountains (see below) 'Grenade' Curse Fruit Flies Bearded Eyes Legifer's Maul Refrigerator Turtles Fountain idea: I'm thinking the idea of strange-effects-from-fountains is a touch cliched. It's a good idea, but what if instead there were some other object (a pool, orb, who knows what) did that instead? It would allow fountains to provide just plain sustainance (perhaps occasionally coming out muddy/crystaline, for more/less satiation), making them much more attractive. Another possibility would be for an angered god to cause a fountain to flow with sulpheric acid, or poison, for a while, and a pleased god to cause wine, healing fluid, or other beneficial fluids to flow. These last parts could be fairly easy to code, I believe. I need to look at the code though.

A long time ago, holy asked me to draw a picture for the mammoth axe so i guess its already coded or planned to be coded. Only kiwi knows...

Hmm, well then, in that case...

What about a ring of gas immunity? I suppose the gasmask works but there is no other way to get consistent gas immunity making staves of smells useless. personally I like fountains the way they are an drink from them all the time. You get lots of good stuff and if you have a RoPC then have little to worry about.

I wasn't meaning to take the current fountain's effect out altogether; just to change it to another item, to allow fountains to have other uses. Most players don't drink from fountains often, due to the many negative effects that can result. If they just provided satiation they would be used a lot more. Perhaps pools could give the odd effects instead, ala ADOM?

I tend to agree... What makes the fountains so crazy anyways? One drink and BAM your a werewolf! or invisible! or surrounded by dark frogs!

The fountain effects are rather erratic. On the other hand, them being for food is rather silly to me, unless they only provided as much food as drinking any other water, of course. What would you guys rather see? I could probably change the fountain code pretty easily...

Well my idea with the fountain-for-food idea, was that a drink from a fountain would be like drinking a half-full bottle of water. Hence not a lot of satiation, but enough that if you stuck near it for a while you shouldn't starve. Mostly I just wanted to see a fountain spewing something other than wierd-ass water. I could see a sub-level with a vampire(ss) with lots of blood-fountains. Or acid fountains, etc. Be a fun way to suicide: take a bath in a fountain flowing sulpheric acid.

Fountains already do give you food. They'd be too boring if we just made them endless food supplies, although I agree that they're too crazy as they stand.

I have an idea not pertaining to fountains: You know how some monsters can teleport your limbs/weapons/equipment away? Why doesn't telecontrol prevent this, considering they're using a teleportation spell on you, and all. Granted it would make it a little easier, but it would make sense, rather than have the arm wearing a ring of telecontrol strangely get teleported off somewhere.

That IS a good idea, and how about this, a Scroll of Change ring, with the ability to change the type of ring you have, considering that you have the wisdom points, and with this idea, perhaps Blank Rings, with no purpose, but use a SoCR to give it a use?

I think perhaps a gold ring would be a more appropriate name.

Just a quick note. This is not an Ideas thread. There are a couple of those, but generally speaking, ideas posted anywhere aren't going to be looked at by the devs. I made this thread as a reminder to myself and to get a little feedback. The telecontrol vs limbportation wasn't bad -- someone could actually code that with fairly little effort -- but Jimmy's idea was something that probably would need to be done by someone with intimate knowledge of the code -- aka a dev. In truth. I feel that unless you have coding knowledge, you should generally stay out of this entire forum. I feel this forum should be soley for the coding aspect. Of course that does leave the problem of getting "mods" (like the 3D mode) out to the rest of us, but there are other portions of these boards which can hold other threads...

I'm thinking of coding the telecontrol thing. Depends on how many think it'd make the game too easy and how many think it needs to be done. I'll setup a poll in the normal forum.

hmmmm... I seem to remember the point of this thread being "Atomic's Easy Programming Reminder for things That Would Be Easy To Program" or something like that... You however Evan... are talking about overhauling the entire battle system! Good ideas, maybe, but not feasible ones...