Guns

[varsity]

I think guns could be added, but have to be added to fit the style of the game... The type of gun I could see being added would be an old chinese type.

A long tube open at one end and closed at the other.  On the closed end there is a small hole at the top, the way they would load and fire would be to put the gunpowder in then the ball of lead.  Use their ready torch and light the gunpowder from the hole in the top.  Very primitive but it works.

Crafters could make these tubes and alchemists could create the gunpowder, and you could get bullets from your local smithy or melt them down yourself.

Like in the older days,  you\'d have a chunk of lead and melt it down.  Then you\'d slide the melted lead into a mold and let it cool.

It would have to be really primitive, no smokeless powder.  It would be very useless at close range and a bit okay at far range.  Mostly luck from atop a hill firing down on people in the valley.

You\'d have to have high skill in loading and aiming because if you put too much gunpowder in, the wood couldn\'t take the explosion and you\'d ruin your rifle.

I think that\'d work...

[FESFES]

Please please please No Guns!!!

[shangralah]

if there are guns i will plan a mass suicide in the game because there are guns implemented and then they will remove them! muhahahaha

[Cyberchu]

Well guns will be hard to obtain, perhaps if Planeshift has some sort of technology tree that evolves with the game. If someone uses their alchamy bench a lot then thery might discover something new. They might then tell the Ochtarch (sp) for recognition. That way, new spells and weapons like guns can eventualy be added. Also if the Planeshift team want to add some new stuff why not have somone discover it???

It\'s just an Idea.

[boutus]

its far fetched but i think if they did put guns in the game and 2 guilds had a musket or rifle shoot out it would be pretty good,i dont mean machine guns and grenades lol,but even in our history during the imperial battles u had sword users,archers,musket men and cavelry all on the battle field.

[FESFES]

I will say it again.....Please No Guns!!!!

If you want guns go play Redmoon (the daydream server is free with 100x the exp)

[Zellgadess]

Heh heh heh, couldent resist : D

http://www.geocities.com/simonfilms/lemure-with-flintlock.jpg

: )

[Cyberchu]

It is probably the only weapon that lemeurs can use as well as anyone else.
j/k

[Shadowfalcon]

guys, having guns in PS wouldnt make much sense. The bow and arrow was much more accurate, had longer range, and was just as powerful as any gun of the day. Why would anyone use a weapon that was heavier, took longer to load, and was less effective? IMO, NO GUNS! not even cannons. When most people think of midevil Europ, they think of knights and swordsman and bowman and kings and queens and the like. Most people dont think of peasants wielding blackpowder muzzel loaders and cannons blasting away. It makes the game feel wrong. I think most people would agree with me.

[Hatchnet]

why guns? How about the same reason as in our history economy esspesialy on the battlefield. I mean whats more important acuracy or volume of fire?

[Shadowfalcon]

Guns only came along as a mainstream weapon near the end of the middle ages. during the early middle ages, they were more of a novelty item, a thing that made a loud noise and a lot of smoke. Guns didnt play large role in the history of the period, so i think they shouldnt be used in this game.

[Cirque]

Wow this thread has a longer life span than a healthy elf. Then again perhaps its not the original thread I once posted in.

I remember back when I had just discovered this game that Kuiper7986 mentioned something about guns and I was adversly opposed to the idea. But I recently played an older game which I finally tracked down a copy of called Arcanum and after finishing that game I can now appreciate the concept of guns being introduced into PS.

[Zellgadess]

But as you argue how \'useless\' they are, isent that an advantage to you??, a person that wouldent use one. basicaly i image, Mr Ga\'dess charging into the hords of little goblins, Running, Draws His Flintlock Pistol, Blows one to the ground at point blank range, a few scatter in fear. With A Spin he draws his saber slicing the necks of two more. Rasing his hands in the air, he calls apon the devine ice magic of the world and blows the rest to hell or somewhere even colder. breathing out he sits on a rock, reloads his flintlock and returns it to his belt.

The Flintlock Pistol would be used as a CCB weapon, just as you charge or sometime during the battle as the user see\'s fit. I am not talking about reloading in combat, becuse that would be stupid, pointless and result in painfull and repeditive stabbings. All Creatures around would need to take a moral check,(modifyers like how close they are, if there injured, there own moral level[gobbo compared to oger] to see the effects. The Pistol would produce a Single Shot capable of severe injury to a small creature, gobblin,(i dont know seeing as... i dont even know if there will be goblins!) Or a minor would on tiger/oger/troll something a bit bigger.
Just an idea


Personaly i dont see any point in 2 handed guns. But they would opperate the same as a bowman or crossbow man would.

[Myrtl]

Do NOT put guns in, for it will totally ruin the game!

[Zellgadess]

how???



God You\'ve Got A Great Argument There! : P