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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Drifter Bob" data-source="post: 1678510" data-attributes="member: 17723">They are popular weapons in my campaign, where reach is a factor <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />actually, I understood you perfectly.  The balance among weapons which I mentioned is just another example of this same issue.  Though  as I said, you cannot 100% prevent minmaxing and nerfing, the best solution is to try to find the balance which exists, so that there is no ONE best way, and so that the best strategies in the game actually reflect the most logical RL strategies (so you don't end up with say, "super" spiked chains which nobody feels real comfortable with).  Balances did exist in real life which is why there is  more than one approach to fighting.  That said, some approaches are sub-optimal just like some weapons are.  The best "slap fighter" in the world is not going to be any match for a competent Brazillian Jujitsu expert.With regard to the game, all I can say is that we did our best to balance the various techniques and gambits so that there are several effective ways to fight within the system.  We will continue to tinker with balance and with preventing nerfing through the beta program.  Hopefuly in the long run we will have a system which cannot be so easily 'broken.'  My experience has been so far that it has not broken down that way, we do have some minmaxer players in our test groups and the game seems to flow well, and they enjoy it as much as the more roleplaying oriented players do.DB</blockquote>

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