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IDProjectCategoryLast Update
0003557Valley 1Programming TodoSep 20, 2011 6:20 pm
ReporterChris_McElligottPark Assigned ToChris_McElligottPark  
Status closedResolutionnot fixable 
Summary0003557: Consumable item: tents.
DescriptionThese would be pretty expensive to make, as consumable items go, but they allow you to create a tiny little "building" that you can go into to take shelter from enemies.
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keith.lamothe

Jun 22, 2011 2:59 pm

administrator   ~0012509

The portable hole!

Chris_McElligottPark

Jun 22, 2011 3:05 pm

administrator   ~0012510

Indeed!

keith.lamothe

Jun 22, 2011 3:07 pm

administrator   ~0012511

(Player running from skelebots)
(Player deploys magical tent and hops in)
(Skelebots cackle and throw in a bag of holding)

Chris_McElligottPark

Jun 22, 2011 3:08 pm

administrator   ~0012512

Lol.

nalgas

Sep 20, 2011 6:18 pm

reporter   ~0013255

"(Player running from skelebots)
(Player deploys magical tent and hops in)
(Skelebots cackle and throw in a bag of holding)"

Yes, please. I support this happening.

As far as the actual idea itself, what's my motivation to use it? If it's really expensive in terms of resources, I'm probably not going to want to spend them on making one, and if all it does is let me hide inside it and...what, do nothing? What good does that do me? I still have to come out at some point and get out of there somehow. It'd buy a few seconds for healing to let cooldowns wear off, but other than that, meh. You're constantly tripping over doors/transitions anyway, which give you temporary invincibility.

The only serious motivation I can see for using one is a mobile crafting station or something, so if you're just about out of scrolls, you can throw down a tent in a last-ditch attempt to save your life and make some more healing items or warp scrolls to escape. That seems possibly cheesy, though, and would maybe need restrictions on where it could be used or what could be crafted there, depending on how much you have to sink into making a tent in the first place.

Either way, just a hole to hide in is very underwhelming. I'm not sure what bonus you could add to it to make it interesting enough to use without it being brokenly powerful, or if that were compensated for with the cost of crafting (needing some kind of rare commodity), ending up like megalixers in FF games. Speaking of which, FF-style "restore all hp/mana" tents would be pretty uninspiring, too, considering how potions basically grow on trees. Heh.

Chris_McElligottPark

Sep 20, 2011 6:20 pm

administrator   ~0013256

Yeah, this is a really old idea -- one that languished here and now needs to be closed. :)

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
Jun 22, 2011 2:59 pm Chris_McElligottPark New Issue
Jun 22, 2011 2:59 pm Chris_McElligottPark Status new => assigned
Jun 22, 2011 2:59 pm Chris_McElligottPark Assigned To => Chris_McElligottPark
Jun 22, 2011 2:59 pm keith.lamothe Note Added: 0012509
Jun 22, 2011 3:05 pm Chris_McElligottPark Note Added: 0012510
Jun 22, 2011 3:07 pm keith.lamothe Note Added: 0012511
Jun 22, 2011 3:08 pm Chris_McElligottPark Note Added: 0012512
Sep 20, 2011 6:18 pm nalgas Note Added: 0013255
Sep 20, 2011 6:20 pm Chris_McElligottPark Note Added: 0013256
Sep 20, 2011 6:20 pm Chris_McElligottPark Status assigned => closed
Sep 20, 2011 6:20 pm Chris_McElligottPark Resolution open => not fixable