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I can sum up my multiplayer experience by saying sturgia is an ungodly abomination combining the strongest parts of nords and vaegirs, and if you don't tale a falx you're throwing. Also had the misfortune to play as khuzait defenders on a siege map. At the time, their bows were complete dogshit despite nominally being the horse archer faction and their melee troops may as well have been cardboard cutouts. So yeah, about as balanced as... a really unbalanced thing.

Back to my previous post, I was actually referring to something I'm not even entirely sure happened. Apparently for a moment units in multiplayer became ridiculously fat. Fat enough Harlaus is building a time machine just to go back and stop them from eating all the butter. This was around April fools, so take it with a grain of salt spoonful of butter.

TERRIBLE SUGGESTION ON A WHOLE NOTHER LEVEL, COMING THROUGH MY MIND

Performing poorly with instruments should inflict pain on anyone that can hear it, closer they are the more it hurts. Naturally, we also need the ability to intentionally fumble performance skill checks so we can do this on purpose.

...Race Graphics

Out of all of these I'd say the egg-yolk with an ಠ_ಠ face is the best by far.

Still stuck designing ships, desperately trying not to fall into this mindset. Weapons layout for the current design calls for three single laser turrets, a railgun, one microwave, and two missile launchers. The weapon sizes will change as I tech up, but is the general layout reasonable for a destroyer or similar middle of the road ship?

Badgers should badger badgers until they find a mushroom mushroom. Just watch out for the snake.

I've never cared for extremely short weapons. Anything shorter than 50 and you have to practically clip into the other guy's model to hit. Meanwhile they're backpedaling just enough to stay out of your reach and their weapon is doing enough chip damage to wear you down. I think 75-80 is the best length for close quarters, short enough not to catch on things but still long enough to reach out and touch someone.

It seems like throwing weapons have gotten the best treatment so far, with no-shield polearms coming in at a close second. Bills and rhomphalias are devastating, but throwing weapons are much more viable than they used to be. In the past, you had maybe five chances to kill a guy with a throwing weapon, and unless you had a high proficiencies or the skills to land a headshot you would need at least two hits to do the job. I was initially decieved by how weak the practice javelins used in the arena were, but the real deal can kill a guy from range even with leg hits. Top that off with the perks that let you carry more and throwing weapons are actually useful this time around.
I personally recommend harpoons. I haven't had too much trouble getting ahold of some, and they do tremendous damage. If it's good enough to kill a whale, it's good enough to kill a human.

All of the daggers I've found so far have had a throwable secondary function. That's neat, gives them some added utility, but then you have to consider that there are dedicated throwing knives that come in bundles and get the same benefits as other throwing weapons. Why would I take one knife that cuts okay and can be thrown in a pinch over a dozen knives that don't cut as good but fly better?
I guess they could work for a civilian outfit as a backup weapon, but you could just use the perk that lets you equip throwing weapons on a civilian outfit, and they just seem completely worthless on a battlefield. The only reason I'd consider taking one in that case is if it didn't take up an equipment slot, but even then that's encumbrance I could do without. I just don't see the point.

I was playing as a woman and married, but after waiting in the same town as my spouse, I noticed my character started to slow down, swinging weapons and running just slightly slower than before.

...Am I gregnant?

You need an outpost in every system these days. If you leave any sort of gap in your territory and you haven't closed your borders, the AI will swoop in to claim empty systems and make border gore simply to spite you. I've killed a lot of aliens for that exact reason. It's not xenophobia, it's OCD.