Is This Game Too Hard?

[bilbous]

Get yourself a weapon buff spell such as electrotouch and you can fight better monsters with archery.

[Eonwind]

Carrying around hundreds of arrows as you have to do in this game is unrealistic. Of course, the wholesale slaughter that is the combat training system is too. To be a hunter in this game is to be a buffalo soldier, killing whole herds for their skins and leaving behind the bulk of the carcass. Such activity could even be considered the capital offense of polluting as so many carcasses get left to rot. I suppose that is what the consumers are for, but one wonders how they can keep up. Isn't it also a capital offence to kill consumers? Good thing the Octarchy is so corrupt.

No. Hunting and killing monster (not even consumers) is no offence and it's neither forbidden by the law, ICly it's considered a useful and necessary activity to keep their numbers low and produce whatever it's necessary for the people of the dome (like meat, leather, ...).

[bilbous]

It appears the Octarchal decrees have been revamped since last I consulted them. I believe it used to be that consumers were protected due to their role in recycling. It wasn't even so much the act of hunting I was suggesting was illegal as it was the scale of the slaughter and the likely improper disposing of the carcasses which would be subject to article 36. Given that the carcasses are not in evidence for more than a minute due to the game mechanics it isn't a real issue.

I apologize to anyone who may have thought my posts were meant to be taken as anything more than thought provoking.

[novacadian]

I think the arrows have a proper weight if you compare with the real ones (0,075 kg each one if I remember correctly).

And what is up with iron arrows? That sounds more like bolts for crossbows to me. It would be nice if one could craft wooden arrows with perhaps an optional metal head so that noobs could spend time instead of tria tooling up for a hunt.

@bilbous : Your buffalo allegory is spot on.

[tman]

I'm pretty sure "iron arrow" means an arrow with an iron head.

Ideally, if crafting is available you'd be able to use many more metals or even gems to make arrows that tradeoff durability, damage, weight, enchantability, etc.

[novacadian]

I'm pretty sure "iron arrow" means an arrow with an iron head.

The graphics look like one solid piece of iron to me, not just a little black spot at the end of a piece of wood.