Someone has to know. But crossbow wielders are rare and it's going to be hard finding someone who has all the scripts. I remember Alisaire struggling with bows and hearing about it and thinking how horrible it was, and I have no idea right now how she wasn't literally rage quitting over it as she used bows and crossbows all the time. She ended up getting help from someone who was pretty heavily invested in it as I remember. I don't even know if she plays anymore.
And people are so defensive of how bad the crossbows are. I don't get how people can just get so used to a bad mechanic that they just accept it and project all of the game's good qualities onto a turd. Crossbows are a turd. They need to be fixed and they've needed to be fixed for a long time. The one thing Gemstone players need to learn is the the attitude at the player's corner is the attitude that is the positive one, not the ostrich with the head in the sand. That's why I always liked coming here, people were real about things.
I say here, crossbows suck, everyone is like "Yeah" and on the official forums I'm sure I'd get a bunch of nerds really mad at me. I cannot even believe this is still going on. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
You get on the normal boards and they're all about adapting to the way the game design is, including all its shitty parts. That's not love that's just fear and conformity. If people really loved the game they would campaign to have it fixed. And as I remember that's exactly how the GM got mechanical crossbows implemented.
I'm sure I've missed 10 years of people defending crossbows and people pointing out how they are obviously a bad game design. Not everything in a MUD should need to be typed. I should be able to ATTACK RAT with a crossbow in my hand and a set of bolts in my quiver and have it just do some flavor text and give me something that will kill a L1 rat at level 3.
And I just read they're still PULLING people for scripting fletching. Jesus H Christ. Pull them for doing that in public without scripting! Nobody wants to see that! It's not a game at that point! You can AFK potion reps in WoW all day long and nobody cares because the whole challenge is getting all the ingredients, not sitting there watching screen scroll.
Okay. I'll stop ranting. But seriously, that this has gone on for that long is really really bad. Someone needs to just come out and own it. Replace all the crossbows with the automatic or bow style.
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