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Thread: Rifleman Correspondant: Even though we got an answer...
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Caijal
Tue Aug 12, 2003 8:12 pm
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... continue to press the range issue and the way the to-hit caps work. I just got owned at 60m by a Pistoleer. I lagged for half a second and he spammed me with 3 knockdowns and it was over. What's happening is a skilled pistoleer is hitting the cap of -50 to hit, and then it's adding the to hit skills, instead of subtracting the -50 to hit due to posture and range from the modified total.
IE:
At 60m, and standing, a Pistoleer will have a base to hit of -50.. and THEN it's calculating the accuracy skills. It should be calculating accuracy, and then applying the posture and range penalty.
If, as Q stated, the weapons fit some kind of niche they should look like this generally:
Rifle: -80/+25/0 (Ideal 60m)
Pistol: +5/+25/-85 (Ideal 15m)
Carbine: -25/+25/-65 (Ideal 30m)
If you try and picture that in your dead, that gives you a spread of almost equal >0 distance for each type but at different ranges.
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Also, but unrelated: Knockdown should not work against a prone figure. Period.
IE:
At 60m, and standing, a Pistoleer will have a base to hit of -50.. and THEN it's calculating the accuracy skills. It should be calculating accuracy, and then applying the posture and range penalty.
If, as Q stated, the weapons fit some kind of niche they should look like this generally:
Rifle: -80/+25/0 (Ideal 60m)
Pistol: +5/+25/-85 (Ideal 15m)
Carbine: -25/+25/-65 (Ideal 30m)
If you try and picture that in your dead, that gives you a spread of almost equal >0 distance for each type but at different ranges.
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Also, but unrelated: Knockdown should not work against a prone figure. Period.
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