Suggestions for Weapons and Protection

[Zanthos]

I'll be Chutruk Nuhunte (probably spelt wrong)

can someone name who this dude is?

[Nakranoth]

Yes... Off topic. Come on people, this is for suggestions about new offensive and defensive items.

[Arlequin]

I think armor is a terrible idea. The current system is plenty good enough.

So, why not just rename shields to "armors", and therefore avoid the semantic problem of using certain materials for defense? Was this suggested before?

Usually if you had the proper material and a need to use it you used it for the shield and for the armor suit. Bronze armors came with bronze shields, iron and wood armors with iron and wooden shields, steel armors with steel shields. The needed resources could be retouched a bit, but that would be just changing three or four items, not implementing a whole new system.

The bone shield would be the 'bone armor'.
The wooden shield 'a simple leather and wooden armor' (adding some hides).
The tortoiseshell shield 'a tortoiseshell armor'.
The iron shield 'an iron armor'... and so and so.

Then adding other kinds of armor wouldn't cause a semantic conflict and would be just like adding more shields.

You could then easily see: a simple leather armor, a woolen leather armor, a cocodrile leather armor, a bamboo armor, a bronze armor, a ringmail armor, a silk armor...

[Gran]

Sorry dude...I said that and people said that would destroy all the balance of the combat sistem...

how about battering rams after we solve armors?

[Lord_Igor]

So, how about some weapons made of iron (no steel) or copper?

[Nakranoth]

So, how about some weapons made of iron (no steel) or copper?

Copper's too maleable to make a good weapon out of, that's what bronze was invented for... and as far as iron weaponry goes, it could be done, but would effectively be just the same as the bronze weaponry.

[Solfius]

The main difference between bronze and iron would be the durability

[Gran]

No way...Iron is more powerful than bronze...by the way, couldan't be any copper weapons or shields?it could be a copper plated shield..a wooden shield with copper plates to more protection

[Arlequin]

and people said that would destroy all the balance of the combat sistem...

What? Renaming a shield?

[Nakranoth]

No way...Iron is more powerful than bronze...by the way, couldan't be any copper weapons or shields?it could be a copper plated shield..a wooden shield with copper plates to more protection

Just by way of info on the effectiveness of copper as being protective... It's about as hard as bone... Bronze is about 10 times harder than copper, iron is more than 100 times harder than copper... and steel is 100 time harder than that... so you're looking at bone level effectiveness from copper... so at best it could be used as decoration on shields or hilts.

[Gran]

can't imagine a bone=copper...
what says in wiky?

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So why Ganondorf kidnap Zelda?Link always beat him and anyway...Link is the protagonist.

[Solfius]

surely a copper shield would last better than a bone shield though

[Matix]

I think armor is a terrible idea. The current system is plenty good enough. We don't need all sorts of crap and stuff. Cantr should not be reduced to every other internet game where there are hundreds of weapons and all sorts of crap. We should focus on maintaining have to work together, not just walk in the joint and waste everyone on your own.

That's the problem. People need to organize to fight in Cantr. But everyone just wants to be Rambo.

I tolking about other idea of armors. I think armors shouldn't give any protection and it will looks like clothes. When you have steel armor it will show that you are rich or you are knight or something like that.

In Polish zone is very much knights, oracles and more kinds of warriors orgnizations. It will looks very interesing when you can see man with armor.

It's conception from Polish forum.

[Pie]

I DISAGREE!!!

I think we should add the "so and so tirednes to be able to get out of a location" and have armore protect you, by subtracting <Number> amount of attack off of all attacks.

[Solfius]

I DISAGREE!!!

I think we should add the "so and so tirednes to be able to get out of a location" and have armore protect you, by subtracting <Number> amount of attack off of all attacks.

You disagreed so enthusiastically you made no sense. Perhaps you could rephrase that for us mere mortals who can't comprehend the inner workings of your mind.