Snipers

[Xander]

EDIT - Soon as i wrote that, they had a news flash about the seige in southern Russia. I apologise if my original messgae caused offence.


Personally, whoever these terrorists are, they are disgusting people. I just hope that those children are saved.

[The Industriallist]

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I never saw the original message, but without it this is a content-free, non-cantr related post.

Sniping in cantr doesn't make sense until real geography (cantr 2.0 *shudder*) exists. Unless you just allowed people to use certain weapons anonymously from inside buildings.

[Gunther_01]

Snipers sound like a good idea.
Ranged weapons can be used to fire out of windows, with possibly a reduced chance to hit.
Also there is a chance that you might not see where the shot is comming from.
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You see a Bolt being shot from "Roberts Residence", Hitting a man in his twenties.

You see a bolt hit a man in his twenties
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Also, when you try to hit someone, and you miss, to another person it still looks like you injured them. Can this be changed?

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You see a man in his twenties attack a man in his twenties, but miss
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[SekoETC]

With sniping out of windows, there's a little problem: do the buildings have windows in the first place? At least not ones with glass. If there are uncovered windows, why can't people climb in or out of them, or at least push in resources if the windows are too small for people to go trough? If the windows are shielded with shutters, there would need to be hinges and extra locks. Primitive hinges are made of hide or leather, advanced ones of iron. This makes me wonder by the way, how can stone buildings be locked if there is no other thing used than stone. Is the door made of stone too? How on earth can people move it around?

[Appleide]

Why am I blind in Cantr, Why do words go straight into my mind?

the sniper rifles should do the same or less damage to sabre, well, no more than 49%

[The Industriallist]

Sniper rifles??

I caould swear everyone has been saying "no guns! No guns!"

Though I'm not sure why, so long as they required ammo.

[Mavsfan911]

I don't like the idea of guns and all. It would be a good idea for town defense, though.
It's still possible to RP it though.
With one or two people in a car, they drive up, take a shot at things, and *poof* they're gone.
But, that's more like a drive by, nevermind.

Edit- Take a shot at things, I meant with bows or something, not guns.

[Gunther_01]

This a good place for dynamic naming to come in. When you open up the building description it could have:

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The building is square, and made of mud. There are three round, uncoverd windows, one on each side, and a small rectangular door on the remaining side.
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or something like that. Thatway they could easily implement windows into the game.

This brings up another idea. Observation towers!!!

EDIT: By the way: Sniper rifles bad.

[NetherSpawn]

As far as I can tell, sniping is basically hiding in a building, coming out, attacking, and going back in except anonymous (plus there's no freak chance of retaliation). This guerilla technique is already overpowered, so unless you had to build a special kind of building to snipe from, I'd have to go against it. Maybe if you stupidly imposted glass windows as a requirement to snipe...
Of course, people would whine when you snipe them with a saber, since everyone irrationally assumes that projectile weapons should have some sort of range that others don't.