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General Off Topic / Re: Fighting in real life.

« on: January 27, 2011, 06:29:39 am »

What you want it the SCA. Society for Creative Anachronism. http://www.sca.org/ It is world wide. They use rattan (a bamboo like wood) for weapons. There is a minimal amount of armor that is required as well as a training program that you have to pass in order to fight in any tournaments.

I it as close as you can get without killing anyone or being killed. I had my shoulder knocked down to my chest when my shoulder armor failed (my fault for not stopping combat). Be safe and serious or you'll get hurt.

http://switch.sjsu.edu/v24/image/stories/SCA_arab-800.jpg

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Game Balance Discussion / Re: Throwing weapons (maybe a slight damage reduction?)

« on: January 26, 2011, 12:57:15 am »

I have to agree with this post. There seems to be way to much throwing in matches and it takes a lot away from melee. The damage does not make sense on some of the higher items as somebody already mentioned. Their melee version does half the damage (throwing lances). Whereas I think the knives and star are fine on damage, the upper items need damage to be reduced. Throwing should be a secondary focus...not a primary spam throwing build.
I think most people would agree on this apart from those that are using it.

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General Discussion / Re: Instead of an upkeep...

« on: January 08, 2011, 10:48:41 pm »

Another thought though would be able to set multiple equipment sets and to be able to switch between them.

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General Discussion / Re: Instead of an upkeep...

« on: January 08, 2011, 10:46:26 pm »

Overall, I think upkeep was a good thing. I'm just lazy and hate having to continually switch back and forth between armor sets.  I was just thinking if there was a way to reach the same result.

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General Discussion / Instead of an upkeep...

« on: January 08, 2011, 10:35:17 pm »

Hmm...I was thinking that what if instead of an upkeep, there was just a greater penalty to WPF for the weight of armor. I think we would see a lot less tincans and heavy armor archers which I believe was the goal of upkeep. What are other people's thoughts on this.