Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24108228-20141020170717/@comment-24739946-20141116022345

NoBanana wrote:

I5-2500k wrote: I don't think so. With a keyboard, you can shoot four weapons very, very quickly, and most of the time the victim will think it's an exploiter. Many times I've been 'instantly killed' while wearing mithril armor+ by crossbow snipers. Wait, what? Triple crossbows aren't used that often. I have never seen anyone even multi-wield during combat, let alone with crossbows. Someone who even has a crossbow is remarkably uncommon, and I seriously doubt there are people who use triple crossbow for purely agressive reasons. Plus, from what I've heard we have a minor skid issue, so it might have just been a guy with hacked reload time.

'''Notice the s on the end of snipers. Your arguement is invalid, because with a large tribe or group of nomads I can easily arm a few members with crossbows. Also, at no time did he mention multi-wielding.'''

I5-2500k wrote:

Some people who play S:303 also have a slow internet connection and die even without seeing their health meter decrease. I've had many times when my charcater simply froze and minutes later, respawned because I had been shot by someone. Ok, this is very frustrating now. Yet again I am being asked to fix the issue of "But what if a player has bad internet, and is killed before they know the other guy is offensive?".

Since it is impossible to fix this through normal means, I did a bit of brainstorming and came up with the following solution.

Why not have a little GUI that appears over people's heads if they have a ranged weapon out, or are within 40 studs and have an ranged weapon in their toolbar?

The ultimate solution to your bad connectivity issues!

What this new program that can be added to your computer does, is automatically equip your longest range weapon whenever someone is in range of it, and starts firing at any player the moment they are in range. By doing so it kills any attacker before they can get close enough to hurt you, and solves the long standing issue of "I don't know if this player is aggressive!", by simply shooting everyone anyway. The multi wielder who had the surprise attack and killed you before your internet allowed you to know what just happened? He's no longer a threat, because this new program kills him first! Now all we need to do is have someone who can code this program. I'm sure anyone who wants this game to last would be happy to sacrifice time and effort to make the people with slow connection able to fight against multi-wielding players who have the element of surprise on their side.

Seriously though, it is quite literally impossible to beat someone who gets a suprise attack, has enough weapons on their hotbar to kill you before your internet can respond, and kills you before you know they're hostile (or even there).

That is, unless you use the Kill-Aura stated above, which would solve the problem by being a bigger one.

Say goodbye to merchants, traders, nomad groups and tribes, because serious people who want tribes will shoot people on sight without say in the matter, and people who want tribes, but don't make ranged weapons get easily killed by some harmless nomadic pro walking along.

Tl;dr: Unless you have a working solution to your issue, don't complain about it.

'Just a question, is your internet in your house? And what type is it, No password, WEP, WPA or WPA2? If it's client side lag, you can actually do something about. If it's server side, then all you can do is rage and bash your head through the wall.' By the way, I'd actually like to use that new colour font template that NoBanana had made, but I've forgotten the source code. Could someone tell me?