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@Sprin The US generally hangs out with countries like Somalia and Singapore in the welfare and health charts.

Averages are an easy thing to fool people with. Image a small village of 100 people. The mayor claims the village does quite well as its population is making 50K a year on average.

This could mean each and every citizen earns 50K a year, but it could also mean that the mayor hauls in just under 4 million a year while the rest scrapes by with 10K a year.

The reality is much the US is closer to the latter case than the former.

Clarification on the modest mod patch: Its for modest bodies only. Modest mod attacks would break much of the balancing done by this mod and likely not fit in the first place.

I do really need to write up a guide/manual on the metallurgy mod and all the weapons and armor. Ill write up a quick guide somewhere in the next 24-ish hours.

@123nick mmm, sounds like food of some sort. In more seriousness, the daggers are not actually slower. Weapons get a longer wind-up time the shorter they are, and a shorter wind-down time to compensate. The total attack speed is still lower than the larger weapons but sadly the in-game attack menu doesn't reflect this in any way.

It may sound odd, but think of it this way: Between a guy with a long spear and a guy with a little dagger, who takes the longest to get a stab at the other?

Ah, someone mentioned power armor, a staple of sci-fi.

I seriously don't think these will be useful in any way beyond logistics, at least not beyond what we typically see in fiction (warhammer, fallout, etc).

They are like infantry, except without all the advantages infantry has: They move quick, can easily hide, take cover and move around difficult terrain. Big clunky power armor negates all these things, but its going to be too small to throw around more firepower than infantry can already carry with them as mortars and such. They are also going to nowhere near as well protected or as fast as an armored vehicle, which would just turn them into fodder for artillery and air strikes.

I suspect they would pretty quickly go the way of the tankette: a convenient self-moving coffin.

If power armor is going to be tactically sound at all, disregarding for a moment the technical soundness, its going to have to be able to move around as well as infantry already can, not make them easier to shoot and still offer reasonable protection again smallarms and nearby explosions/debris.

I think that if your going to be a high profile target, you better be small or fast enough to stay clear of heavy ordnance, or big and strong enough to roll with the punches. Roles like APCs, ATVs, gunships and tanks already seem to stick to this rule. Of course for the latter category, there is always going to be a gun too big for your armor, but those guns are going to be a good bit more noticeable than what could kill a comparatively tiny man-sized tin can.

Game over man, game over!

You could draw this one... on 4 dimensional paper.


This was my flying squirrel man arena adventurer riding a minecart into some baddies at a very irresponsible velocity and careening into a chasm (I made a custom arena map). I suppose that could make an interesting drawing, but I don't have combat logs of that.

Wouldn't worry too much about the language for games.

Me and my sister grew up on English commodore 64 games, had plenty of fun and I think we both learned the majority of our English from them (and later PC games).

A lot of these older games didn't even have a tutorial to begin with, and there's something to be said for letting them figure stuff out for themselves.

That said you will probably want to start with something lighter than Dwarf Fortress.

An alternate approach would be to just rename the crossbow skill to 'bowman' or something.

Might get a bit weird with there already being a bow skill though.