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Can someone explain statdeath to me?

If you think about mining picks, it's pretty much impossible to design a hand held simple tool that can put more force behind a small contact area. Its designed to bust rocks, so it's easy to imagine that no armor could be made that would slow it down in any way. You can't make a more powerful weapon than a mining pick.

The issue, and this is one that is not modeled in DF at all I don't think, is that mining picks are so heavy and unwealdy that you couldn't possibly defend yourself while holding one. When you are up against a rock wall that's not fighting back, all you care about is power. When you're up against an armed enemy, you need both a speedy attack that is difficult to evade and also the mobility to counter enemy attacks.

If you tried to hit some random anyone off the street with a mining pick, even the clumsiest most untrained individual would probably be able to side step it.

It seems to me that the game is trying to model only the force of the weapon, which if you do that right, would make it easily the most powerful.

Quote from: Mephansteras on July 10, 2010, 04:07:47 am

Open it, of course