Mikko
Level: Master Delver
Rank Points: 276
Registered: 02-04-2003
IP: Logged

This is a fairly simple idea. I was going to post it as part of a list of several feature requests, but I haven't gotten any other worthwile ideas.

Drinking the teleportation potion allows Beethro to move to another square in the current room. Rotation during the move would not be allowed and Beethro could only move to places that a mimic or a decoy could be placed at (with the exception of Beethro's and his sword's old location). Using teleportation potions would require extra caution by the architect as Beethro could otherwise easily end up on the wrong side of a green or blue gate and the exit the room. IMO black would be the best colour for the teleportation potion.

Bombadil
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 509
Registered: 06-01-2005
IP: Logged

I don't like the idea very much. What does it bring to the game? Teleporting everywhere in the room is just too much.

And to teleport you to a few special squares is not too much [you can do similar things with those... those... pink things (tunnels?) that teleport you in a line to another one].

((WOW! This post must be full of gramatical mistakes.))

---

[Last edited by Bombadil at 02-11-2006 08:22 AM]

Mikko
Level: Master Delver
Rank Points: 276
Registered: 02-04-2003
IP: Logged

Bombadil wrote:
I don't like the idea very much. What does it bring to the game? Teleporting everywhere in the room is just too much.

It is too much only if the architect lets it be. In a well planned room, the teleportation potion allows for many different kinds of puzzles where Beethro has to teleport to the right place and/or at the right time. Some examples are trap door puzzles, catching a brained roach queen, and an otherwise unreachable area, where you must first drop a coloured gate to create a "landing place".

And to teleport you to a few special squares is not too much [you can do similar things with those... those... pink things (tunnels?) that teleport you in a line to another one].

Except that tunnels can be used more than once, though you could partially prevent this with thapdoors and such, and they always take you to the same place.

b0rsuk
Level: Smiter

Rank Points: 489
Registered: 11-23-2003
IP: Logged

And why exactly is it a potion ?

____________________________

http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20051128/adams_01.shtml

Ezlo
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 1214
Registered: 01-08-2006
IP: Logged

Because he couldn't think of anything better? I think that given the right room this could be implemented, but it would be hard.

Dali
Level: Master Delver
Rank Points: 174
Registered: 02-05-2005
IP: Logged

I think the tunnels are fairly alike. Potions are used only once, and for tunnels an arrow with a trapdoor for example will be the same.

Mattcrampy
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 2388
Registered: 05-29-2003
IP: Logged

Clone potions have similar functionality, except you have to put the warm body somewhere then get killed.

____________________________
What do you call an elephant at the North Pole?

Pinnacle
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 1129
Registered: 06-10-2004
IP: Logged

Mattcrampy wrote:
Clone potions have similar functionality, except you have to put the warm body somewhere then get killed.

So, Matt-- you've just let slip your first TCB spoiler, right?

____________________________
Once (adv.): Enough.
Twice (adv.): Once too often.
~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

Ezlo
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 1214
Registered: 01-08-2006
IP: Logged

I think he meant Mimic. But that's just me.

eytanz
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 2708
Registered: 02-05-2003
IP: Logged

Actually, that's a "feature-that-didn't-make-it-into-JtRH" spoiler. There's no potion that works the way Matt describes in TCB, either.

____________________________
I got my avatar back! Yay!

Oneiromancer
Level: Legendary Smitemaster

Rank Points: 2936
Registered: 03-29-2003
IP: Logged

Actually, Matt let slip something that was a possible new object for 2.0 and we decided not to include it because we were limiting the amount of new things and the objects that weren't fun or intuitive got the first cut. As far as I know, Matt has no access to any 3.0 builds or information, and only knows what was cut from 2.0. And chances are that if something was cut from 2.0 because it wasn't fun, then it wouldn't be in 3.0 without some major changes.

Moral of the story? Always take any 3.0 "spoilers" Cramp gives out with a grain of salt.

Game on,

____________________________
"He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder." -- Tad Williams

mrimer
Level: Legendary Smitemaster

Rank Points: 5064
Registered: 02-04-2003
IP: Logged

File: originalCloneRequest.png (43.1 KB)
Downloaded 80 times.
License: Public Domain

Attached is a screenshot of the original clone potion feature request on the old DROD SourceForge page.

And this is a previous post by Matt C. on the topic. And here is some old forum discussion on features like this.

____________________________
Gandalf? Yes... That's what they used to call me.
Gandalf the Grey. That was my name.
I am Gandalf the White.
And I come back to you now at the turn of the tide.

---

[Last edited by mrimer at 02-13-2006 04:22 PM]

Mattcrampy
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 2388
Registered: 05-29-2003
IP: Logged

You guys didn't know about clone potions? Oh. Well, they weren't that useful, anyways.

The spoiler brigade is right - I don't have access to 3.0, and I've got no information on gameplay elements that isn't already available. In fact I'd be surprised if anything that I know about from 2.0 that got cut will make it into 3.0. Then again, I don't want to jinx it.

Moral of the story? Always take any 3.0 "spoilers" Cramp gives out with a grain of salt.

Actual moral of the story? Stop assuming that Cramp is giving out 3.0 spoilers. I only know story spoilers, and you can bet your last dollar that I won't be spoiling those.

____________________________
What do you call an elephant at the North Pole?