Honestly, this is the first time I have even seen this thread lol. I do try to read most posts on these forums, but sometimes a few slip through the cracks :P It was just coincidence that I made my post a couple of days after this one. I was originally wanting to make just a zone table setting for adjusting the BestZ setting at first, and then figured it would be nice to just have the option to be able to use any custom rule setting for any zone you want.
I am pretty sure it would be possible to do this, since each zone loads rules as they boot up. It is mostly just a matter of figuring out the best way to implement it.
I think a feature like this would be awesome, since it would let servers set it so you could do stuff like only being able to level to certain levels above the normal cap of the server in certain zones. So, for instance, you could have your normal server level cap set to 70 and then in 1 zone set the cap to 75 and even set a heavy exp penalty there to make going from 70 to 75 a bit of work if you wanted. Or, you could set certain zones to have increased crit rates for melee and casters. Or, some zones could allow higher caps on Regen or Mod2 stats. Or, you could have a couple of zones that have exp penalties on death and leave a corpse even if your other zones on the server do not. Or, even set certain zones to give increase group exp bonuses, etc etc. I am not sure how well special rule settings like this would work for every rule, but I think a good portion of them would work just fine as being set differently on a per-zone basis.
I think that by setting something like this up, it might open up more custom rule settings that we wouldn't normally have considered, since it would have affect the entire server. With the option to set special rules per zone, we could set rules that do things like Trivial Loot features (ChaosSlayer request), Stopping Buff Timers, and plenty of other unique zone settings. The nice thing about this option is that we could implement special zone settings without having to keep adding new special fields to the zone table every time we want a new feature like "canbind", "cancombat", "hotzone", "peqzone" or whatever. All new stuff like that could go right into a rule and be added if/when needed.
I may try to start looking into what it would take to create something like this, but it probably wouldn't be for quite a while. I am really busy with content for my server to finally make use of the SoF stuff that I worked hard to help get working. I also have a few other things that I really want to code first anyway. Stuff like quest commands for changing and saving facial features, and maybe more armor tint and armor texture stuff as well. I may even start with the facial feature stuff somewhat soonish, but it would be a while before I will have time to look into this rule stuff. I have never even looked at how rules are handled, so it might even be above my head anyway :P
I am going to move this thread to the feature requests section.
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