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Originally posted by benoit.hudson:
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Currently, without real military weapons, our army gains less skill because soldiers die in battle.  Without practice weapons, ditto becuse soldiers die or get brain damage while sparring.  Without sparring partners, there is currently no skill improvement.

The ability to have soldiers automatically pick up the dullest sword when sparring, and automatically switch to the sharpest when on duty, would be *less* complicated than the current dance we have to do now.</STRONG>

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Yup, this is the only fix sparring really needs.  Maybe sparring will get a big overhaul someday, but the real issue is the horrible unarmed-forbid-unforbid-rearm cycle that has to be done every time a melee squad goes on/off duty.

e: plus the ability to actually create proper training weapons, of course (who has that much silver around?)

[ March 17, 2008: Message edited by: Footkerchief ]

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Originally posted by The-Moon:
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yeah a option to turn it off in the ini file would be good   </STRONG>

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Uh, the OP wasn't talking about cannibalism as far as I know.  He was just talking about eating other intelligent races.

If you look at engravings of demons in Adventure Mode they tend to discuss how the demon was imprisoned in adamantine.  I'm not sure it's a portal to hell per se.

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Originally posted by Neonivek:
<STRONG>I think Elves should retain the abilities to know how to make wood a viable weapon, it should be their thing... and because you don't want the player to feel stupid just don't allow dwarves to build it.

Wood spear? Isn't that called a Javaline? In order to have something be a spear I think it needs a spearhead.

[ June 02, 2008: Message edited by: Neonivek ]</STRONG>

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Elves should be able to make wooden weapons that don't have the usual damage reduction (see Threetoe's latest story).  But there's no reason why a dwarven woodcrafter couldn't hack out a pointy stick and call it a spear.

Also, no, spears don't need a separate head attached.  A javelin is a kind of throwing spear and it may or may not have a head.

[ June 02, 2008: Message edited by: Footkerchief ]

I came into this thread pretty skeptical but that's actually a fantastic idea and makes so much sense.  I'd stared at a bunch of axles thinking "There really should be a way to lubricate this thing" but never quite made the leap.  Total support.

Images are just decorations.  Doesn't make much sense, sorry.

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Originally posted by Lazer Bomb:
<STRONG>I'm pretty sure that the REAL reason that you only get 1/3 of the bar back is for gameplay balance reasons. If you could just smith a sword, melt into a bar, smith a sword, melt into a bar, you could basicaly get free legendaries. The way it is now, you have to go digging around for a limited amount of metal, which prevents people from getting stuff too easily.

Edit: good stuff too easily. Its already easy to get stuff. Its just the good stuff thats hard to get.

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I see your point, but there's plenty other factors that would keep it reasonably balanced even with a 100% rate of return.  Time is a resource too -- it takes time to melt stuff down and if you could have used that time more profitably, it's your loss.  And if you don't have magma, melting items as the primary means of obtaining metal necessitates a gigantic amount of charcoal.

A rate of return below 50% is just bizarre.  I would prefer something in the range of 75-95%.

[ March 16, 2008: Message edited by: Footkerchief ]

Seconded

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