Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25414246-20140915101709/@comment-24108228-20140915151535

This is why crossbows are an essential piece of kit for any professional player. They're just perfect for eliminating boat theives (and anyone else for that matter).

The number of RQs I have caused is uncountable, I tend to react quite harshly to attackers (and crossbows dont have a "medium" setting), so it's usually too fast for anyone to do anything elaborate.

However, there was this one time rather recently where I was in a tribe of four (in a server of 5), and the one guy left was a complete nublet. He was always complaining about something, and he had no form of weaponry or anything. We were all too busy trying to set up some base survival (where none of us had any wells or architecture above three, and nobody wanted to be a farmer either, which made things go by rather slowly), and eventually we found the nublet on an artificial island that we had half finished, then given up on due to priorities becoming more apparent. I swam over, and found myself followed by the rest of the tribe, and we encountered the nublet walking around the half finished island: NoBanana: What are you doing here? Nublet: this is my island go away NoBanana: Actually, I think you'll find this is our island. You may want to leave.

At this point, the nublet drew his stone spear (shock horror), and told us "no". Everyone in the tribe pulled out their own piece of end game weaponry: Crossbow, Mithril Sword, Yewbeam Bow, and Bluesteel Sword. It was quite impressive, but as always, nubs have no fear (or basic sense of self preservation), and the nublet got a taste of roughly 480 damage in a few seconds flat.