Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-24108228-20150125000106/@comment-24108228-20150126224458

An Observer wrote: Steel isn't as unusable as people like to think. However, I would rather like to see the unarmored given a boost- leather armor gives 50 health at no walkspeed penalty, and then from there armored players become nigh unbeatable except by other armored players, due to their HUGE health boost. If any tiers need to be bridged, it is between the Primative tier and the Iron tier. Take the other armors down a notch as well.

Our armor is getting so overblown that when we think of notable damage measures, we say "one-shots an unarmored player" Well, it's fair to say an unarmoured player isn't exactly ready for combat either, they're supposed to be weak. If we were to help them, the best way of doing it in my opinion would be to add a log suit of some form, a walkspeed lowering bento armour made of wood, that just stops people with steel swords being too good.

The issue with your ideals is that the damage system is simply just designed for the armoured players. If we were to halve all armour, dual wielding crossbows would actually be all that's neccesary to take out reinforced mithril, and that's without a woven vest. Using the magik of maxed out damage with the Yewbeam, you can kill up to steel armour in a single shot.

If you actually go around, you'll find very few servers have a player going around killing newbies. Although it's easy to kill a newer player as an advanced one, there's little point, it's not satisfying, it's too easy, and although a lot of players on any server would have the potential to easily slaughter about half the rest of the server using only what tools they have as of current, they don't. It's too easy.

Sure, there are exceptions in the form of large bento villages, which are easy targets, and satisfying too owing to the large quantity of flammable objects to vandalise, but frankly I've hosted the most vunerable and tempting village you could possibly have (about 7 unarmed new players living in a mostly wooden village with lots and lots of food), it still took about an hour after it was known server-wide before it was raided. It's uncommon that these players are exploited, and anyone wishing to engage in combat should equip armour, which puts them in the league of PvPers rather than Rockma killers.