[CF-Devel] Bows and shields

[Rick Tanner]

You bring up some excellent points.

Does anyone out there use bows or crossbows consistently? Or, does
everyone agree with Peter's comment below?

Does anyone have suggestions for making the use of bows or crossbows more
appealing?

Maybe something along the line of arrows that have a spell effect when
they hit a target.  I know there are such things as Arrows of Flame, but
that is only an additional attack type (correct?)  What if, the arrows
would explode into a very small fireball when they hit a target?  Imagine,
shooting those arrows with Bow of Accuracy and seeing arrows fly around
the corner and hit their target.

Well, just a thought...


On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Peter Mardahl wrote:

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      What is this obsession with realism?
     
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      Our question should not be "is it realistic to use bows and shields
     
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      at the same time?"
     
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      It should be, "is the game more fun if we disallow the use of bows and
     
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      shields at the same time?"
     
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      I believe the answer to that question is NO.  I do NOT want to deal with
     
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      re-equipping and de-equipping shields and bows all the time.
     
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      The same argument applies to bow firing speed.  It's NO fun to sit there
     
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      frozen while you wait for a bowshot to "reset".
     
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      Even with the new lighter arrows, quicker speed, and heavier damage with
     
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      bows, they're STILL a total pain in the ass to use and by and large,
     
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      I don't.
     
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      Bows aren't useful enough in the first place for us to think about
     
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      placing restrictions on them:  they suck now (even now, after the changes),
     
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      why should we make them suck more in the name of "realism"?
     
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      I mean, come on!  "Realism?"???????
     
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      "I'm gonna zap you with a magic lightning bolt!  Oh yeah, and me, a
     
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      human being, is 100x tougher than that other human being over there,
     
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      because I'm level 20 and he's level 1!  Oh, look at that dragon over there
     
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      breathing fire!"
     
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      PeterM