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Blizzlord

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Adding balefire to the game
« on: February 22, 2012, 11:44:27 am »
After reading a bit about the Wheel of Time universe I got the idea to add balefire to the game. I could copy the basics of it from the [CREATURE:DRAGON] entry, but in the WoT series balefire has the effect of making somthing to not have existed for a time back proportional to the amount of power behind it. This could result in the situation of A kills B, then C kills A with balefire, ressurecting B. Is there some way to add this property to an ability in DF?
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Re: Adding balefire to the game
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2012, 12:02:38 pm »
Quote from: Blizzlord on February 22, 2012, 11:44:27 am
After reading a bit about the Wheel of Time universe I got the idea to add balefire to the game. I could copy the basics of it from the [CREATURE:DRAGON] entry, but in the WoT series balefire has the effect of making somthing to not have existed for a time back proportional to the amount of power behind it. This could result in the situation of A kills B, then C kills A with balefire, ressurecting B. Is there some way to add this property to an ability in DF?

No. Not at all.
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Re: Adding balefire to the game
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2012, 01:02:27 pm »
Not only is it not possible to add such an effect through modding, I suspect it would be impossible to do even if Toady were to devote his entire effort into adding it to the game source code.  The type of ability you describe, in which a cause in the future can cause effects in the past, would make it possible to set up logically self-contradictory situations whose end state would not actually be possible for a computer to predict even in theory.  It's easy when you're an author and writing a story which is carefully contrived to only create scenarios which lead to consistent outcomes, but you know damn well that if you give the DF community a time-travel ability someone will promptly break the universe with it.
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Re: Adding balefire to the game
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2012, 03:39:00 pm »
It'd still be fun, tho...
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Re: Adding balefire to the game
« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2012, 03:51:37 pm »
Shame that this would be so, so increadbly difficult to add. As a alternitive, I suggest making a heated breath weapon that causes both necrosis and melting vi heat, and call that Balefire.
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Re: Adding balefire to the game
« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2012, 08:56:58 pm »
There is an RT(not really...)S being done out there, called Achron or something, that allows jumping about and twisting causality into knots...
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