Sport | Fitness Duplicate of Accepted Suggestion

[psymann]

Suggestion A:
- make sports equipment in Cantr

Suggestion B:
- make it more than cosmetic by introducing Fitness


Sports equipment.
I know that some of these sports maybe weren't invented at the time of bone spears, but then nor were radios, so am hoping that might not be a problem.

I'd like to be able to make, for example:

Wooden badminton racquet:
- wood
- sinew

Metal badminton racquet
- aluminium or steel
- sinew
- leather (for handle)

Shuttlecock
- feathers
- rubber (or maybe wood (cork actually but we don't have that) as an alternative)

Simple cricket bat
- wood

Good cricket bat
- wood
- string (for handle)
- rubber (for handle)

Cricket ball, Football, Rugby ball
- leather

Long Jump Pit
- sand
- wood

- and I'm sure people can think of others. Ok, so that is just something nice for me to make. That would be a nice start. Now for making it useful...


Fitness

A character could build up fitness (maybe this would just improve his physical strength, maybe it would improve his ability at all skills a little, maybe it would reduce his damage, will leave to others to pick the best option).

To build up fitness, you would have a project to Play Sport - for example:

Play Badminton
- would need 2 to 4 people on the project for it to do any good
- all would need a racquet
- one would need a shuttlecock

Play Football
- would need at least 8 people on the project for it to do any good
- one would need a football

Play Cricket
- would need at least 6 people on the project for it to do any good
- two would need a cricket bat
- one would need a cricket ball
- would improve fitness a little if one owned cricket gloves (add to clothing list)

Dance
- only requires one person
- requires no equipment

Run
- only requires one person
- requires no equipment

Long Jump
- only requires one person
- would need to be a long jump pit at location


Each hour you do this, your fitness improves and your tiredness gets worse. So in effect if you are not tired, you can use some of your energy to improve your fitness - and depending on the option chosen, this would either improve your skills a bit, or your physical strength, or reduce your damage, or do something else beneficial.


psymann

[SekoETC]

Weight lifting bench
800 grams of leather
500 grams of cotton (for padding)
around a kilo of iron

Tools: screwdriver, needle, bodkin

Then the weights should be made separately of iron. But the problem is that in Cantr, iron is so damn hard to get, who wants to waste five kilos on a small weight? So maybe the plates would be made of stone and only the bar would be of iron.
Another problem is Cantrians cannot lift over 15 kilos even for a split second, no matter how strong they are.

Doing push-ups
No equipment needed.

Doing sit-ups
Needs a second person to hold on to your ankles, or alternatively some sort of a bench. If it were an adjustable bench, then you could make the training more efficient.

[Piscator]

Cantrians cannot lift over 15 kilos even for a split second, no matter how strong they are

Perhaps you could increase it using the bench.

[new.vogue.nightmare]

Actually, that's something that's always perplexed me to some degree.... if you carry your maximum capacity around for so long, why you can't ever get stronger.

[Chris Johnson]

Psymann

Both suggestions are really a duplicate of an already accepted suggestion
The idea of training existing skills using objects is covered by the accepted suggestion Practise Pell Not completely clear from it's thread title I know but it is a general place holder for similar ideas. I suggest you add your long list of objects to that thread - You'll be pleased to know that this will be implemented soon, RD have already discussed this in great detail

In the mean time I'm moving this to rejected suggestions as a duplicate

[psymann]

Ok, done. Let's lock this topic off then and keep discussion there.

Seko and Piscator, I've added your thoughts to that post.

psymann

[the_antisocial_hermit]

Locked as requested.