... I have centaurs as a race in Fracas - they're a man/mount. I had to tweak the code in a couple of places, but overall it seems to be working well. Ant...
Bradley, Interesting that empty units can have skeletons. I think I will go my way, it makes the players pay a price for sending out missile type units....
... Each of the three main types of creature have their own way of determining limits: Dragons - you get a fixed number per mage, and can't give them away. ...
Greetings all. On a lark, I promoted two folks to moderator status just now -- folks who are active in Atlantis. After I did it, I thought, "Gee, isn't that...
... I would be happy to do this if not for one problem, my computer store keeps me busy and therefor I may not be able to deal with such problems in a prompt...
... I see your point. I guess I am worried that the really strong creatures stay under player control. And I definitely do not want a player to control a ...
Hi Rad, Phantasmal beasts? Nice... They are useless now. Just make them hit hard but die easy. Or make them with half hitpoints of normal monster but no attack...
... Beigtais, I feel your pain ;) And you're right - so I jumped in my time machine and changed Fracas. I did pretty much everything on your list, except for...
... currently there is as long - maybe even longer way to gain phantasmal beasts, as the real ones. Add in, that the phantasmal ones are awfully easy to kill, ...
... Reduce the micromanagement; for this 3 suggestions : - Automatic sharing of ressources (Silver, yew, etc...) needed to Study and Produce, within a faction....
this one I don't quite understand ... ... get rid of teaching or get rid of the @ function? I don't think it would be possible or wise to remove the @ function...
I think he was saying removing the whole teaching thing. He is correct it does simplify the micromanagement of the game a lot by removing teaching. The first...
So I keep hearing about Atlantis 5.0. So what makes it good? Is anyone still working on it? Do I want to run it on my server? I am leaning to rewriting...
... I meant downgrade the whole Teaching process, not the @ function which is really helpfull. ... If the number of student per teacher is a modifiable...
... The problem with Teaching is not that it isn't good to teach from a player perspective - teaching is something everyone should do. From a design...
... Hash: SHA1 kinda quiet around here lately isn't it? sorry I had nothing better to say to liven it up a bit. btw just friendly word to pgp or compatable...
in the MOVE command section of the rules there is an example: MOVE N NE IN mustn't it be MOVE N NE 1 IN if 1 is the object number of a shaft in the specific...
It will attempt to enter the appropriate numbered structure. Which could be a monster spawning structure, in which case in MOST games, it will be stopped from...
Hi! I use a little modified version 4.0.10 of Atlantis. I compiled the source on a windoxs XP home and i am runing the game on the same plateform. Now i want...
... I would think the problem is based in the windows-line feeds of the game, player and order files. you have to exchange the dos linefeeds to unix linefeeds....
... another simple option is a nice free utility called Tofrodos that does this automaticly the windows version you just drag any text file to it and it does...
I'm about to post a copy of this util to files section... I don't remember where I found it but there are precompiled windows binaries for you to use, I'm sure...
just noticed there is a limited amount of storage space for files in this group... that's what I get for not reading lol. anyway to fix this I'm going to...
Hello! Please, anybody, tell me, where I can get the latest version of Atlantis 5 sources. (How to use the CVS?) And does the complete list of changes exist? ...