The_Red_Hawk wrote:
I think a game element that would be sort of like a bridge would be nice. It could cross over other pathways, and Beethro can go under or over it, but he can't get on or off (well, maybe he could jump off) but it would be a replacement for using those combinations of doors that sometimes don't have enough space. It would be as long as wanted and indestructible to The Flow. (I think this part has the most puzzle possibility e.g. get across the bridge before the ends are swallowed up)

1. Will monsters follow the same pattern? I.E., can Beethro be off of a bridge and next to a monster on a bridge and be safe?

2. If so, could Beethro kill that monster? Could Beethro go under that monster?

3. Are the bridges able to have corners, or would they just be straight?

4. Would brains direct to or under bridges?

5. Along the same lines as #2, could Beethro be over a monster?

6. Would flying monsters be able to go on the bridge without traversing one of the two endpoints?

The_Red_Hawk wrote:
By the way, aren't AE and 3D going to be exactly the same?

--|           |-------
  |           |
  #===========#
  |           |
--|           |-------

|- are walls
# is stairs
= is the bridge

Sokko wrote:

Sokko wrote: Beethro can only smite monsters that are also on the bridge, or on the stairs.

Why couldn't Beethro reach down? because he can reach up and take out tar babies on walls.....

The living tar cannot grow over a bridge, for the obvious reason that it can only be one square wide.

Why couldn't it be wider? It can curve all over the place, and the placing method will be similar to the serpent. It can be hidden by tar in the normal way, like tar can grow over walls, but it can't grow back *unless* 2 squares wide.

The "stairs" are just the start and end points for the bridge, and would usually be placed next to walls.

Does that mean that serpents can't climb bridges? Because I can't picture them climbing up stairs. I thought it would maybe be an arch bridge. If something is needed to repel serpents, you just have to add a force arrow or something.

No jumping off the sides, or else we'd have Beethro landing on top of monsters which opens up a whole new can of worms.

All right, but how about only when there are no monsters there? Oh - and flying monsters will not regard the bridge as an obstacle, but will go straight for Beethro.

[Edited by The_Red_Hawk on 11-30-2003 at 02:41 PM GMT]

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DiMono wrote:
They can be any size or shape, but must be realistically supported. This means no bridges that turn 180 degrees without supporting pillars, as they would collapse from overbalancing.

Bridges come with pillars that support them, which are 1 square large and treated as an obstacle. The architect can put these wherever they want, as long as the bridge is supported.

Serpents can traverse the bridges. After all, they can climb trees.

agaricus5 wrote: Really, there should be a fixed number of pillars needed by a bridge, or else the bridge will become structurally unstable and will defy the laws of physics if it doesn't collapse. Perhaps one pillar every 3 squares will be sufficient (although more is obviously recommended), but you could also have it so that if an architect placed too few pillars under a section, anything that steps on that weak area will break all unsupported squares of that section and fall through.

When was the last time you saw a 500 foot serpent, as tall and thick as Beethro, weighing a hundred tons, climb a tree?

NoahT wrote:
Unless the tree is as big as 100 redwoods.

Oneiromancer wrote:
No, colon-p used to make the smiley with the tongue sticking out...now it is colon-P. At least I think it changed. If not, he just forgot to capitalize the P.

Game on,

DiMono wrote:
Well, it seems obvious to me that things of the same scale will function the same. Since I've often seen one foot snakes rear up half their body length, it must be possible for 500 foot snakes to rear up 250 feet, thus eliminating the need for climbing entirely