attention! long post following!
hey team im thinking of using my multi-rom idea in LoF for each seperate region.
i wouldnt have problems with too small or too big maps. i normally dont add new maps in advance map or change the size of maps cause then i might overwrite some bytes and the region map wont work on those maps (as it happens on route 1 of FoR)
so after the player finished binggao he would have to switch to another rom with the same savegame to play on in huoshi
i dont think that is a problem since you cant fly from one region to another one anyway.
i wanted to make it so the player has to pass a mountain in order to get to huoshi, but then it wouldnt really fit the story if theres a person at the exit of the cave saying you can only pass if you load the savegame with another rom.
it would be way better to have trains that go from one region to another one. if you buy a ticket a flag is set, there is 1 flag for each region. if you load the savegame with the rom of the wrong region, you wont be able to leave the train cause you have the wrong ticket.
but theres one thing that is stupid about that: why should there be a train connection that everybody can use between regions that are in war with each other?^^
what about a duty house that you have to get through with people at each door. they only let you pass when you paid money (then the flag is set and the other one is cleared, so always only one of them lets you pass, never both at the same time).
or there is only 1 flag, and in one rom this flag will make the first person let you pass and in the other rom it will make the second person let you pass, that makes much more sense...
so you pay and then the flag is set. now you can load the savegame with the rom you want and depending on which you loaded another person will let you go through.
i think that is the easiest and best way since the map and the events on it have to be the same in both roms
what do the scripters think about this?
if you think you can handle it (i dont think this is too hard if i send you a more ordered describtion then the one above) i will make the map. you could make the scripts then so we can already test it even if it wont appear in the beta already
anyway, ill think of the next LoF event now
edit: another advantage of using multiple roms would that the player could wear different clothes in each region, which would make snese, cause normally you dont wear the same stuff in the desert and in the snow. also the player should change his clothes so the grunts of the otehr regions cantz identify him as a binggao fighter. it would be sneseless if the player was walking through the region without everybody attacking him and noone selling stuff to him. but if the player looks like a huoshi grunt, ppl will sell stuff to him and help him.