If they were smart about it, they'd make an effort and pop it out on consoles as well. Akin to Fable(I/II) or Assassin's Creed but online, and let Sony and MS worry about the server end, respectively.  Heck that's what the PS and Xbox are for, FPS. ... And you won't  have to type out your flames or try to read theirs with voice chat!

My understanding of this weapon was the use with or rather against rapiers and foils as the curled ends of the hilt could trap these thinner blades, where as short swords(gladius-esk) and long swords were too broad for this purpose.

Since these thiner blades are mainly piercers, unless you slash with the tip ala Zoro, they were more common after the introduction of hand Fire Arms(hand cannons/arquebus/muskets/etc) as these weapons proved devastating to armor and thus these thin blades had no armor to contend with, all be it perhaps a small metal breastplate(akin to conquistadors) and/or thin leather, these flexible blades thus could easily pierce the leather or circumvent the plate at the joints/edges. And with no traditional shields either, a second blade was a logical choice and with a sai like hilt to improve parries and trapping of opponents blades.

So ask yourself, what Era of European civilization does planeshift fall under? Middle/medieval ages, Roman, or later .. Napoleonic, etc.

You're back?!?

Jeeze... I didn't realize you were gone...


BTW.. who the "heck" are you again?

No actually my comment was dead on. You are getting all excited about adding an element to the game that is quite absurd. PS is not set on a vast empty space, like an ocean or desert or flying in the open sky. No! PS is set in a cave with walls and cliffs. Very good and obvious land marks ones that at beta should be seen quite clearly in the back grounds. The whole notion of a compass and the wasted effort to bringing one about is what I questioned.

But really, people get lost in PS?? REALY?!? WOW, that just blows my mind, how the heck can anyone get lost in a bordered zone, it's not like you can walk unbound in any direction with out end. And then for later on just think about it, you have a sheer face on one side and a drop on the other. we are talking about a face as tall as a mountain and the drop can be like talking about a ocean, cause that empty space is just as flat and featureless as if it was water filled. As an example, lets use LA. To the north you got the San Bernardino mountains to the south you got the Pacific Ocean and in between you got a bit under 50 miles of city and burbs. Even in the LA smog haze you can make out the mountains to the north and the empty space to the south. So I don't know how with the miniscule distance of just 10K you can't see the two obvious and most distinct land marks of the PS landscape. Now if the wall is on your right, you are traveling counter clockwise and if its on your left you are travleing clock wise and 10 K is not that far to see whats around, it's not like there's a horizon either.
 
So, what's next in the works? Let me guess, a sextant so you can plot longitude and latitude by the glow worms in the ceiling...

It's quite apparent that you all have talent, why can't you apply it to more constructive means.. I don't know, like mounts..  Anyway I apologize for deflating your balloon.

Again, I don't care what Role Play you follow as long as I don't see any Felines or Reptiles acting like rabbits. If you're going to play a carnivor then Role Play as one.

This was not the case before the series of barbarian pastoralist invasions in BC times, especially in South East Asia.  Remnants of that Golden Age survived into the medieval period, just not so much in Western Europe.

According to the settings team, PS is set in a EUROPEAN medieval age, whether that it be right after the Roman Collapse or closer to the renaissance, the Settings Dept hasn't stated. The Romans had pulleys and levers so the elevators in Winch aren't that significant as to put the age at which PS is set in. The use of steel in crafting puts the age past the roman collapse as the Romans did not posses furnaces to produce a reliable source of steel, their main metal was iron. We could argue that PS is in the renaissance age rather than medieval, but even less rights were given to the individual and peasantry than in the more chaotic period after the Roman collapse.

Food correlates to possession of land, at least in an agrarian culture. By this I mean, PS has established settlements and walled cities, contrary to a hunter/gather civilization stage. The agrarian use of land restricts the hunter/gather, establishes tightly set  boundaries and thus leading to land possession. So, if you want to keep on arguing, ask the settings team this, who owns the land and who grows the food, as for the moment it's a moot point being that we do not need to eat to survive. But since you all like arguing over the little things, I though I'd add this log to the fire.

Again I don't care what you RP,  as long as it does not effect the settings and over all game. once it crosses that line, guide line have to be set  and usually hard coded in order the have every one adhere to them. If we have different species, and the subject of food comes in to play in the game mechanics, specific dietary needs for each species need to be established as well or we might as well make every one human from the get go.

The settings dept has placed PS in a medieval period, on Earth during that period, you were lucky if you ate at all let alone have a choice in what to eat. Also earths medieval time there were only humans to contend with the dietary needs, PS has several species that do not fit the normal human structure.

That being said, RP what ever you please but don't force your RP against the settings, ie make a vegan cat/reptile or a kran that eats meat or a Dioboli?? that wears and uses metals(eats)

Along the lines of what I suggested, to make the races even more distinct, if and when food becomes a necessity in the GAME, to reinforce the separation and characteristices of each species, a hard coded diet for each should be implemented. Not one that makes special food for each but one that limits what can and cannot be eaten.