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Posted by Cerumen, Mar 30, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Any chance you'll merge the god version with some of the ideas you talked about / introduced earlier?

Ps. I love the parchment effect - kind of ambiguous if you don't know what's going on, and the character looks funny.
Posted by Cerumen, Mar 30, 2008 at 5:13 pm
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Unless you mean some kind of a parody of NetHack's kitchen sink. But I have no ideas how this could be done.

Sinks? Nooo. But I think that toilets (introduced in Slash'EM, a variant of NetHack) may fit IVAN a bit more... you could vomit into them to cure confusion
Posted by Cerumen, Mar 28, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Personally, I like some of the material ideas. Sure, it's a bit pointless to introduce more and more and more materials into the game, but it would also be fun to play with some of these... particularly since materials influence the game in so many ways.
Posted by Cerumen, Mar 25, 2008 at 4:47 pm
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What if you could bottle up or can up things like dark frog blood that was on the floor?

But then it would only be fair if you needed some gloves protection or yours hands would get hurt... and the game would become a second NetHack

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I have long thought of having the creatures of whom materials are made in IVAN, ever since I had the idea to introduce a troll in the original Co-Op Fiction

Guessing from the amount of troll hide items, trolls could be pretty much extinct in the Ivan world by now, heh.

(I still would like to meet an ommel, though!)
Posted by Cerumen, Mar 25, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Haha, I actually wanted to try doing a pseudo-version of this on my own, but gave up after a few mysterious errors after messing with the data files (mainly in the material area)

(still, those obsidian swords and wicker whips...)
Posted by Cerumen, Mar 24, 2008 at 6:31 am
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I'm not sure India is an island.

I was thinking Sri Lanka, but fine. Scratch that katar.
Posted by Cerumen, Mar 23, 2008 at 1:22 pm
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raptors instead of mistresses

...in leather clothing, holding whips?

Seriously, I think you should be able to produce a lot of interesting enemies even without throwing in dinosaurs - giant sloths and armadillos, diatrymas (or moa birds), macrauchenias and of course sabre-toothed tigers

As for gameplay, perhaps fire could play an important role, given its early power and associated mysticism... perhaps gods could endow your weapons with it. Neonivek's concept also sounds pretty cool - you could use carvings or figurines instead of scrolls and wands.

Weapons and items could play on the hunting theme - thrown javelins and pit traps. It would be also nice to have some way to reshape items, eg. produce armor from animal hides or use bones for some magic items.
Posted by Cerumen, Mar 23, 2008 at 1:12 pm
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a ring of limb control or something.

Haha. Thinking about it, it might be nice to have something like a "ring of sticking together" that would prevent, or at least protect, against limb loss (you would still get them damaged and wouldn't be able to use them, but your limbs wouldn't have got severed, or the chance of that would be lower).

Also, I think IVAN would look nice with some more weapons and equipment from various island cultures to play more on the "New Attnam" theme - something like eskrimas, krises, katars, parangs, machetes, etc.
Posted by Cerumen, Mar 21, 2008 at 4:11 pm
True, but the mechanics could be changed. By getting the Champion reward from one of the gods, you wouldn't be able to get another one from any of the other gods - and perhaps other gods' happiness would drop. Nothing as severe as the once-proposed "crowning by one god only" idea, but a small penalty nonetheless. Oh, and of course, you could only get the Champion gift once.

And if we talk about an increased prayer timeout, the gift should be something really nice to justify it. Certainly not 3 days, though.

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Atavus's Armor is better...but you still can't pray to him for 6 hours.

He doesn't do much else, now does he?

(if my calculations are correct, it takes roughly 3 hours for prayer to be safe, so 6 hours aren't THAT bad either)

Ps. Another idea: Make sacrifices decrease the time until your next possible prayer (I can't really tell if anything like that exists now).
Posted by Cerumen, Mar 21, 2008 at 6:16 am
Banana peels aren't as bad as I thought - at least until I got to Genetrix Vesana level and then the plants sprouted up and I couldn't damage them