Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-24108228-20140316230035/@comment-24046900-20140321003155

I5-2500k wrote: NoBanana wrote: The problem with transport is that the fast cart is simply supreme no matter what. The problem with a new bakery is that it will be hard to improve upon an already amazing building without it being OP.

How about a weapon of sorts? Scar has said they have no plans for new types of weaponry, but other editors may think differently. I want a new way to defend, as raiding is too easy. Villages need to spend time building houses and making food, they don't have the time to go to distant lands to get steel and make crossbows. All the current defence items and buildings can be jumped over (sometimes with help from a couple of boulders in a pile). As raiding is a majorly negative experience for the targets, I feel something should be done to help the people who get raided, as well as make raiding less stupidly easy, and instead a challenge.

I suggest a ballista. It is a placeable building that looks like a large crossbow on a stand. Loaded with arrows, it has a range of roughly 75 studs, and deals the same amount of damage as a steel sword (with stone arrows). It takes 15 seconds to reload.

Now you may be thinking "UMG DATS GONNA BE USED AS A RADING WEPON IS SO OP RAIG", but there is a catch. It cannot be retooled. So unless the raider wants to spend ages making a ton of arrows, ballistas, just to get a weakened crossbow, it wont be used as a raiding tool. The point is to be a cheap way of defending a village, and add a challenge to raiding. It's too easy right now, a single person can walk into a village, and as long as their weapons are superior, destroy the inhabitants. And their weapons will almost always be superior, because they didn't have the burden of creating a village, and instead just charged to all corners of the map to get bluesteel.

It just isn't balanced.

 Bluesteel isn't as enormously more powerful than Mithril as some may think. One or two Mithril swords/spears could easily kill a Bluesteeler with side-headshots in a few swings. As Mithril is common and easy to aquire, unless all entrances are blocked, almost all villages should boast at least Mithril armor and tools.

Defensive catapults on castles would almost certainly enhance the authenticity of the fort, and the overall experience. Where do I even start... First of all, do you know the time it took to move a catapult or ballista in medevil times? It took days, sometimes weeks, and sometimes MONTHS. Haha. Have fun. And since mainland isn't the real size of an island in real life, it would probably take even LONGER to move it, which would make it unwieldy in battle, as the person moving it could be dead in a matter of seconds with the raiders weapons. A cart could simply run over to it, jump on the thing, and kill the driver before it moved two studs. Furthermore, all I have to do to raid, is place this thing down, load it with a piece of stone, bam, the former village infront of me is a pile of sticks and stones. Thats an IMMENCE advantage in battle. You may say, "Ah, but villages have this advantage as well!" ... No they don't. Unless you want to make about a billion of these things, your going to have to have to have a few of them stationed around the base, but this has a problem, as since they would move slowly, their crew would be dead in seconds for the raiders would aim for them first, assuming anyone is insane enough to spend hours sitting in a slowpoke vehicle looking for raiders that probably aren't even in the game at the time. Basically, this is a version of the catapult that can chuck rocks at a village and nuke it, while catapults in-game are throwing BOMBS at entire CITYS, and missing. Seriously, thats not how it works in real life. Im not going to pierce a three foot thick wall with a stone arrow. I AM however going to smash it to bits by hurling bombs at it, or for that matter, rocks. Also, your saying that the stone arrow you shoot out of your toy crude bow to practice aim, can now be implemented in a deadly weapon of doom? Also, I can just leave one person with weapons at my palace, go hop over to some islands, come back, bam, my tribe has mithril arms and cross bows. Its not that hard to drive off raiders when you have superior weaponry... Also, doesn't THIS count as weaponry? If I can make a ballista by raising my engineering and grabbing some iron gears, I can certainly get good weapons. I can get mithril weapons in thirty minutes from SCRATCH. I suppose an army of people who used enough resources to make a village, could get mithril for themselfs in ten.