Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4842859-20141004014439/@comment-24108228-20141013164633

An Observer wrote: Ranged weapons have no disadvantage in the melee except for their reloading time and expense, '''*did. Now they are utterly unusable in any combat because you get one shot, any more and your target will easily be able to reach you and start attacking. Either way, you're saying "Ranged weapons have no disadvantage in melee combat except for the lower DPS and fact they cost more.", which makes them useless.''' and players should be motivated to not rely on ranged/melee only. If reloading is a more arduous process, it would encourage the fall of soloist raiders, who could only reload one crossbow at a time Or they could just say "screw weapons" and run into a tribe with a firebow and cause more damage than any raider could previously. Instead of one person firing three crossbows, three could each maintain their own. 'I will be very surprised if you can single-handedly supply any tribe with crossbows''. They'll have one each for about 5 minutes and then one of them will die, lose the crossbow, and you have to make another. By the time you've finished that someone else is already dead, and that's assuming you just sit at rockma making steel and crafting long, tedious crafting recipes.'''

We could also, for example, pair this with a slight inaccuracy to ranged weapons, encouraging simutaneous fire be raiding groups (to maximise chances of hitting target), and further organization on both the part of raiders and defenders. This is Death Star level planning right here. "Boss, ____ doesn't work!" "Well take that thing that doesn't work and make it bigger!" '''We're saying we don't like how much you nerfed ranged weapons, so nerfing them further is not the answer. Not only this, but you glossed over a lot of our points. What about the raider that cannot be chased? Or the inability to kill anyone who isn't fighting you (you're re-implementing Bunny-Hopping!). Or the fact that the community is going to go completely wild when they realise that everything is slower and more tedious? They went nuts when their view distance was shortened for the Halloween update, think about what would happen if you did this.