Idea - list of effects

[daemonicky]

In Oblivion you can be invisible for 20 second and have 20 times tronger armor, imbue weapon ... you can put something in a chest. You can poison dagger ... I thought, tt would be awesome to have it in Quake.

They seem to me as effects which can be combined at will. With some restrictions of course.

Lets have linked list of entities. Assigned to for example weapon. They would represent those skills, effects like poison, possibility of breaking, flame ... Each time weapon hits, weapons effect list is walked and effects applied (Weapons touch handler would fire all touch handlers on its entities).

What about poisonous blade which breaks after 20 minutes (send owner T_Damage(99999) )? In order for effects to communicate with weapon all entities in a list would have an owner, that weapon.

I havent implemented it yet, but it might be cool. Has similar list of effect entities been made in some mods or have you made one

[frag.machine]

A poison effect applying 99999 of damage at once would just explode the victim in gibs and look weird. If you're going to do that, make it to apply smalls and frequent amounts of damage (say, 2-4 damage every second for 30-45 seconds).