Postby Jur Schagen » Thu Sep 23, 2004 11:42 am
Well,
first I knew about the change was when I saw somebody hunt with a weapon I'd never seen before and I made a remark about that... only then I saw I had one in my own inventory as well.
Oh and I liked "war bow" as a word much rather then recursive... whatever, I forgot again. Sorry Serenity, I'm no bow specialist and even after your explanations it remains hazy to me. I'm guessing this will lead to IG comments like "Hey Joe, could you build me a composite thingy?". There's nothing wrong with longbow (except for the double "bow"), though as people said before I had imagined this one to be more basic (just a piece of bent wood with a string).
Finally: I think a change like this should be implemented "as a whole", i.e. including possibility to build new bows. As it is, you can't build bows, at least for a few days... and what happens if there is NO consensus on the change in the Council, Serenity?
Jur.
I would say that a good portion of what you have now didn't exist or was much easier to get then it is now. Just to prove my point, steel was a raw resource that could be extracted from the ground when I first joined. Animals did not exist. Bodies that died inside buildings mysteriouly ended up outside. No population ecentric spawning. Iron was a raw resource taken from the ground. The War Bow, Sabre, Sword, and Iron Shield were just as easy to build as a Hunting Bow or Wooden Shield. The two main tools was a trowel and a hammer (since you could build almost anything with them) and most everything else was either used for building just one thing and then was useless for anything else. The dung fork was the best weapons/tool because you could use to fight and gather food at the same time. You couldn't knock on doors. Clothes didn't exist. Lots and lots of bugs and bandwidth problems that often took Cantr off line for days if not months if not even longer at a time. Over those two years Cantr has been improved upon and made better and we are continuing that but sometimes that creates some hicups in the game but in the end we will get everything back together and made better. Trust me.
