Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24108228-20150516231658

This isn't a report, complaint, or secretive comeback about someone who did things that opposed my views on the matter; I've played once in the last handful of months and that instance was mainly me having a laugh at the lag, along with a bit of nostalgia. I just thought I'd clear that out the way first.

Since the forum's died again, here's a question: Where are the borderlines for "Illegitimate" combat, in your eyes? In other words, where do you draw the line for combat techniques such as placing medieval support bases on people's heads, dragseating (which is patched, but nonetheless a good extreme case), or building machines to kill for you?

Personally, I'd say usage of techniques that would require equal effort, if not more, to set up than a similarly powerful alternative using regular methods, then it's ok. For instance, if someone built a cacti-wall cannon that deals roughly yewbeam bow damage, and has a similar reload to one plus similar setup time, it is ok in my book. However, things like dragseating, which require much less effort to create than a sword and crossbow duplicate, are not ok. Lighthouses and medieval support walls would be borderline, ok if not abused excessively, or offensively.

What do you guys think? 