Character death and resurrection.

[korexus]

I'm not really sure what is best to do here. I like the idea of a Rogue-like game where death is common and permanent. However I also like the idea of being able to build up a character to greater heights, at which point death will be quite annoying.

I can see a case for a high level heal spell that allows you to resurrect a dead character. Once that concept exists, the idea of letting the temple do it for a fee seems reasonable (although potentially someone has to get the character back to the temple first).

For now I'm thinking that you can start a new character immediately, and start again, and that you can resurrect a character for a fairly high fee. If the new character could also pay the resurrection fee for the old one, that could all work out, however that probably means all your characters should share a common bank account.

Thoughts welcome!

Chris.

[Ecrivian]

Check out a game called "sword and glory" the concept there is similar to this but limited because of live action battles similar to a side screen fighter such as mortal kombat. I like WOK Quest because it reminds me of an old school RPG while not quite turn based combat but not true live action either. It hits a sweet spot of old and new.

[Ecrivian]

Sword and Glory has a game that you pay of you want to resurrect your own fallen character but you start back out at lev 1 and have to go thru the steps all over again. Which is monotonous but the price you pay for getting yourself killed.

[korexus]

I instituted a resurrect button. It costs gold and AP, but will restore you to full health and return you to the city.

That's probably making life too easy, but it helps with the testing if nothing else.

Thanks,
Chris.

[Ecrivian]

Where is said button located? Will I need to delete cookies and restart to see it?

[korexus]

In the stats pane, just below the refresh button. You don't need to clear cookies, but you might need to clear your cache or do a hard refresh before it loads. (I'll see if I can do something about that.)

[Ecrivian]

Okay cleared cache but still not seeing button. So.....

[korexus]

Just created a throw away character to check. This time the code is there...

resurrect.png

[Ecrivian]

Just tried to resurrect my character. (On multiple devices, one mobile and one actual computer, using Chrome) Button still isn't showing... I didn't mean to break it I'm sorry

[korexus]

Good bug.

It seems that if you:
* died
* waited for your game session to expire
* came back
* tried to do something
then the thing tracking your remaining hit points got confused, at which point it didn't think you needed to resurrect button.

I've now fixed that for the case of hit points, but I suspect some other things are wrong too, so I'll dig around a bit.
(You may need to hit the refresh button in the stats window to get the resurrect button to appear.)

Thanks,
Chris.

[Ecrivian]

Sweet life! Thanks Chris!

[korexus]

you might need to clear your cache or do a hard refresh before it loads. (I'll see if I can do something about that.)

I think I've now dealt with this issue, but I'm not certain it hasn't slowed the site down. Slow and correct is probably better than fast and wrong, but fast and correct is better, I'll keep digging.

[korexus]

As well as the paid resurrect button, you should now have a free resurrect round about an hour after you die. That time period will likely change in the future, but for now I want it short to help with testing.