Choose Your Weapon

Majority of LOTJ combatants tote around a repeater with a lockpick set, or double blades.

I feel that weapons need to be rehashed again so that there are different tactical advantages to using different weapons. A larger viable variety to players would benefit the MUD’s gameplay greatly. As it stands: We have two useful types of weapons, and a bunch of antiques lying around. There’s very little balance.

This might work like a rock/paper/scissors fashion, where one type of weapon is better than another, but always weak to a different type of weapon. Right now we have:

Blasters: Repeaters/Rifles/Pistols – These have been split into categories for some weird reason. People still only use Rifles if they’re going for Snipe, and though you can only dual wield pistols – they’ve been completely forgotten save for prop use on non combat characters.

Blades: Blades are good right now. With makeblade you can pretty much turn it into anything, anyway. A club, cane, a bladed guitar…

Force Pikes: One of the coolest weapons in Star Wars, and they’re virtually nonexistant. You’ll see them for sale everywhere. You won’t ever see them in a serious combat situation. The biggest problem is VS blades: Just take the dual wield for extra HR/DR.

So there needs to be a compensation or extra incentive for players to use these. The obvious and realistic solution would be its improved reach, but that won’t help a MUD much past not having to approach people to stab them.

Bowcasters: These are great wookiee weapons, but like forcepikes, they’re utter garbage. I think Wookiees actually just use makeblaster to fashion bowcasters now. Why should these be any worse than actual blasters? There is a makebowcaster.

Unarmed: Right now, the only reason to use this is desperation. Certain grappling moves, and holds should be introduced that can only be used in combat if you’re unarmed. It should be customized for the defensive fighter that wants to defeat his opponent without mauling him.

I know this has been brought up before, but I’m bringing it up again.

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Bowcasters are great. Forcepikes being able to attack without being approached? I’m torn on the idea. I think weapons are in a pretty comfortable place right now and I’m hesitant to rock the boat. The only thing I’d like to see (even though it would destroy balance) is Teras-kasi.

I’ve suggested a couple of times that we take a page from KotoR and give smugglers a bit more combat prowess when using pistols, etc.

Well RJ, the whole idea was to make everything less shitty. EU or not i don’t really give a shit, i want to use something besides a repeater. It gets boring when every man and his dog has nothing but a repeater. Its a game and choice is the spice of life. Whats the point of having any of these other weapons even in game if "its EU so we have to do it" is the theory behind it. Just because the large portion of -army/combatant- people in EU used Repeaters doesn’t mean there wasn’t Magnaguards and shit toting forcepikes, Wookiees using bowcasters and Echani or Palawa people being quite effective at unarmed combat.

If you read my post more carefully you’ll notice how I do make the point of the Repeater being the bee’s knee’s and that everything in the end should come off second best for damage per round(Though i wouldn’t be against equalizing them all). It doesn’t mean wanting weapons and items that are clearly not upto par to not be used because they aren’t even worth the encumberance cost.

PS, I want flame throwers and rocket launchers to be made, area of effect but varying degrees, you can snipe with a flamer and anything upto 2-3 rooms between you and target gets cooked for a bit(400-500ish, timer between shots), the rocket launcher could be a one room explosion which is sniped from a decent distance and does slightly more than the flamer to the target but surrounding people take grenade type explosion damage(300-400).
Oooh, i won’t even start on about some sort of net-gun, could tie in with slippery and work with struggle, more or less be a remote grab with a super crappy bind type effect, holding a knife increases the struggle chance.

Nobody is forcing you to use a repeater. And what you need to take into consideration is that number-crunching PKers will quickly and easily determine what of the new options is the best course, and we’ll have the exact same situation we do now… except there’ll be more names of items out there.

One quick fix then, everything is redone; they all do the same amount of attacks, the same amount of damage and have nothing special about them. Sorta takes the fun out of weapons doesn’t it.

This thread is nonsensical!

To me, the biggest issue isn’t that repeaters are the whoopass stick of LOTJ…its the fact that everyone and their mom can use them so early (I didn’t say well)

Kora… Why? Making these weapons useless without mastery is redundant. People without mastery do not win fights (unless they’re beating up engineers or really awful players, in which case they could just as easily do it with a datapad).

Why are people so upset with the status quo? I guarantee that a good player could easily kill people with any weapon in this game and likewise, good players understand that there’s more to combat than draw repeater, murder, flurry.

Hell, it isn’t even that effective…