If You Get Killed in SL, you should lose $L

way to suggest another form of grief!

Seriously, this would only give a reason for the <bleep>tards to start shooting up everything. This is Second Life...not San Andreas.

And if you're wearing a Space Marine avatar, you get their memories too.


My personal theory is if you get pushed, you should recieve L$ 1000 for each sim boundary you cross. Once per day.

There's no point to the Linden player-versus-player code.

None.

It should all be removed.

Gone. No more "damage" sims. No more "health" hearts, nothing.

All that stuff should be handled by cooperative resident-written combat scripts like CCC or the stuff Darklife uses.

Oooh. The Assasination Game.

I dropped out of college because I was spending too much time hunting my victims instead of studying.

Please, nobody implement this in SL. I'm serious.

Funny you should say that. I was just thinking about it the other day, when someone somewhere else was talking about Killer.

Yeah, like llPushObject, everyone should have co-operative attachments using llApplyImpulse instead...

I jest. Nah, I'd like a proper hardcoded damage system, but it has to actually work and be customisable by parcel and so on. Different options, say, you die and you just spend 30s in a pool of blood on the floor, or you get TPed home or back to a spawning point, depending on how the area is set up. An option for only objects owned by a certain person or group doing damage. And so on.

I seem to recall that Sylph Lightworker has a proposition up about reform of the damage system. In general, it's something that every other gunsmith I've spoken to in SL thinks is a good idea. If I remember the proposition I'll post it.

Agreed.

Seriusly Scripted ones are much better anyway. i've used a few.

I would disagree with this sentiment as there are "accidents" at times. Such as once when I was mentoring, the sim I was in went down. When I logged back in, I had been tossed into a combat sim and got shot in the back before I knew where I was.

What always confuzzles me about the Mulcher...is how he posts all the anti war shit, but loves to incite them. You're a silly little man Mulch.

I agree that the the damage system needs re-working. I've yet to see a freebie weapon (or a non-freebie for that matter) that didn't kill outright.

As for combat sims or RPGs or anyting that actually uses the current health system, my way of implementing it would be that the weapons didn't do damage unless the target was wearing a particular item, i.e. something that denoted that they were indeed part of the game.
Uses ould include:
The weapons couldn't hurt anyone outside the game.
There wouldn't need to be a need for group tags to be active (although it is handy, depending on what kind of game)
You could set the worn item (bracelet?) to different "frequencies" and have 2, 3, 4 way FPS CTF or what not. They could even be used to turn off friendly fire. And if someone's not wearing the item to get "god mode," well, they can be easily spotted as they aren't taking damage and their team ain't getting any points.

I know that the ideas I have for making a D&D type RPG work in SL involves frequency set weapons and other items. Prevents 'playes' from walking into a dungeon and just shooting it up. If all weapon items were like this we wouldn't have so much problems with griefers (admittedly removing a small section and not a large one).

Oi! None of my weapons, free or not, are instant-kill. (Well, the Engine Rifle has High Explosive kill/push ammo that you can select, but it doesn't use that as standard.) In fact I think the most damage any of them does is 60. Mostly it's 20-30.

Good to hear!
Still, the point remains that non-leathal weapons (esspecially guns) are rare.

Man, taking on a forum boss mob is tough though. Good xp if you win though, but the loot is crap.

Please Lindens fix the loot table!

There's lots of non-combat uses for llPushObject, many of which are appropriate for casual use where having to get a "use the lift" attachment is silly.

There's no non-combat use for combat, and I don't see any reason why there should be any way for anyone who's not interested in combat to have to even know there's a combat system around. I've got a couple of planes that for some reason have CCC built in. I've never turned it on, and I'll never have to deal with it even if I accidentally fly them near an ongoing dogfight.

Just have your bullets/swords/whatever shout your UUID and damage value on your combat system's channel when they hit. Then you can script your combat system to handle scoring, killing, and everything else to work exactly the way you want.

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EXACTLY.

OH YES! This needs to be implemented as a feature. That would SO make all the push weapons worth the trouble!

I know you're joking, but... is there any non-combat use for weapons in SL? I'd really be interested in knowing if anyone's come up with a way to do something interesting with the PvP system unrelated to PvP.