Author Topic: Crazy Idea for Blocked Rooms?  (Read 314 times)

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Crazy Idea for Blocked Rooms?
« on: November 16, 2011, 03:07:36 AM »
:)   Sorry to bother you, but i was just playing AVWW and went into a blocked room (red on the door, yes?) and had a sudden thought, i mean i 'know' that you didn't want to have 'all' the rooms available, because it was just too many, and it fits the lore perfectly, not everything is going to come back picture perfect after the ... you know... splintering hovoc and explosion thing that happened to the world.   :)

But my idea was to have perhaps 'some' of the collapsed rooms, say a small amount of them, maybe 5% or 10% of the collapsed rooms in a given region that instead of being completely blocked or collapsed, that some of those rooms would have small wedges, or nooks and crannies that are navigable by the player to get to something nice stored in them, say instead of mana or health potions, or even the xp barrels that are scattered liberally around the rest of the buildings rooms, that there could be something different...

... I'm trying to think here, hmmm... maybe some cherries, or walnuts, or something else that isn't normally in buildings, and certainly not a ton of it either, but just maybe a little bit?

Not so much for the items that people find, but for the sheer out of the ordinary neatness and joy to have 'some' of these collapsed rooms actually lead to somewhere or have something in them.  ??

What do you think??

Thank you for listening!

Take care,

-Teal


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Re: Crazy Idea for Blocked Rooms?
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2011, 07:11:54 AM »
Thanks for the idea!

The problem is that if there is ever something useful in those rooms, then many players will always look in them to find those useful things. That then negates the whole purpose of the destroyed rooms, eg that hey are ignorable but a place you can rest if you want.
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Re: Crazy Idea for Blocked Rooms?
« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2011, 07:25:59 AM »
If it helps, I've been adding a few rooms, and plan to add more that have portions that look like the destroyed rooms, but are real rooms. This may help give you a bit more of the feel you were looking for.

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Re: Crazy Idea for Blocked Rooms?
« Reply #3 on: November 16, 2011, 09:59:35 AM »
@Chris, i hadn't thought of that, sorry, but i think i see why now.

@tigersfan,  that sounds wonderful!   :)

Thank you,

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