Kwakstur
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Even though I don't like - or even use - tokens, I might as well propose something, since they're here, anyways. This thing could make some very evil puzzles: Tokens that turn tunnels 90 degress clockwise or counterclockwise. Before you know it, all the tunnels lead somewhere else, and when it comes to rotations like 90 degrees, you may not be able to leave through tunnels the way you came.

This would not only make some evil puzzles, but would also explore the characteristics of Tunnels.

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Here, Beethro can't cross that path, because if he goes west while standing on a tunnel with an east opening, he'll warp. So he has to make that tunnel face north or south (or even west) so that he doesn't warp when we walks west across it.

So this not only makes odd puzzles with changing which tunnels connect where, but also which ones are forced to be entered.

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zonhin
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Good idea. Doesn't seem to hard to program, it has puhzle potenshul, and it's useful.

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Oooh, what an excellent idea. I mean, I'm still a little undecided about arrow tokens, but I agree that this is a logical extension of them, with just as much utility.

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I don't know about you guys, but I'd find this idea painfully confusing. Force arrow rotation tokens are bad enough for me as it is.

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I like this idea personally. Would also be easy to implement.

Next token : ROOM ROTATOR! ( Rotates the room by 90° )

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vittro wrote:
Next token : ROOM ROTATOR! ( Rotates the room by 90° )

Yay. And a monster rotator!

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We need to have potatoes in the game, so we can have potato rotators.

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The main problem would be coming up with decent tokens that're different from the arrow rotators.

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zex20913 wrote:
We need to have potatoes in the game, so we can have potato ro-taters.

fixed.

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i like the idea, but i guess it would have been easier to integrate in the game if it had come included with the force arrow rotation, as two different rotators might be hard to hold apart.

But apart from that nice idea

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As a follow up on this post.

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Damn it Tahnan! I was going to post that!

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This tunnel token could also rotate arrows by 90 degrees.

That would make for some more puzzle potential.

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Why, oh why did I start the potato idea going?

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Hey, I helped. Give me some credit.

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zex20913
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Well potatoes do go well with ketchup and puppies...

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I agree, I had some in the bad evil restaurant.

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bomber50 wrote:
This tunnel token could also rotate arrows by 90 degrees.

That would make for some more puzzle potential.

No, actually this would make less. Since we already have force arrow rotators, and we can just use scripting (along with tunnel rotators) to make the effect you mentioned, tunnel rotators should just rotate tunnels.

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Yeah. I agree on making them separate. I don't think it would be a problem for the patch that introduces this to change the force arrow rotator token graphics as well. And it's not possible to rotate tunnels at all right now, so this should be implemented.

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It is possible to destroy tunnels with builders however, so with some clever placement it is possible to turn tunnels 180 degrees

However, what with builders not being able to build tunnels, and the aforementioned inability to turn things, that's about all you can do with the existing elements.

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