I'm tired to see tin cans or any other heavies run as fast as anybody else in medium armor. It's stupid.
So this is no bias, eh?
I'm not saying that I'm unbiased, but I already admitted that it's okay to cut corners on realism for game balance.
But just asking for a nerf like this out of the blue is stupid. It most likely came up due to the OP being killed by plate users he ran away from. Probably because they had higher athletics skill?
As Ujin already said, it's all about athletics.
Of course a plate user with 6 athletics will be faster than a peasant with 0 athletics.
A fit person will (almost) always be faster than a person not as fit, no matter what clothing or armour the fit person wears.
Plate armour exhausts you more than light armour, that's true. But it doesn't make you run slower. Not one bit.
In fact, it affects accelration, not "maximum" speed.
You might take longer to get to run at full speed, but once you're at full speed, you're a rolling cannonball made of steel, which few things can stop.
Turning is also affected once you're running, but that's already implemented.
Get enough points in athletics, and you'll easily outrun plate users with equal points in your light armour.
Oh and I have worn 16th century Full Plate and I dont think I could of run fast in it.
Sorry, what? You don't
think you could run as fast in it?
You didn't actually run around in it?
You didn't actually use it in combat?
Then don't come in here and spill your opinion like it's the scientific truth.
Yes, real life arguments aren't always applicaple in game balance. But a claim like this is just bullshit.
Besides, the latest plate armour we have in cRPG is 15th century, 16th century is not even represented in the game except for the morion.
I'm just tired of people whining about armour that's already so dumbed down from it's true effectiveness for the sake of game balance, and still get killed by people using it.
Yeah, right. Nerf it some more. Take the last reasons to use plate.
People rarely run around in plate anyways. What reason, except novelty, would be left to just use your epic plate armour once in a while when it's nerfed so hard that it's not more effective than medium / light armour?