[dev1008] About Jumping

[Rhianu]

My only concern with contextual jumping like FFXIII is that it would take a lot longer to implement, since SE would have to go through the entire game world and add "jump points" where ever they were needed, which would take a lot of development time and money away from other things.

A simple jump button, on the other hand could be programmed in a matter of minutes, with the actual character animations (including motion capture and cleanup) taking maybe a week or so.

Contextual jumping would take a lot longer to implement, cost more money, and in the end would be less effective since we would have to rely on pre-designated jump-points to get over any obstacles we'd encounter in the terrain. And if SE forgot to put a jump-point at a particular location where it was needed.... well, that would cause quite a lot of complaints I think.

Though obviously Roegadyn are going to be able to get up bigger cliffs than Lalafell.

Here's an idea: Lalafells do a flip in the air whenever they jump, thus allowing them to jump just as high as the other races, despite being significantly shorter!