On Tuesday 03 December 2002 22:39, stormpunk wrote: > Tom Whiting wrote: > >Firstly, a helmet's not a weapon > > That's a limitation of your mud/methodology. You could easily headbutt > somebody with a helmet and cause more damage. You could also take it off > and hit somebody with it. It is possible to trip over a helmet and hurt > yourself. Or maybe my helmet is made out of rubber and yours is glue and > everything you say bounces off of mine and sticks to you. Actually, not at all.
Based on rom itself, NOT my methodology, NOT my mud, a helmet is a piece of equipment, NOT a weapon. While your thoughts make sense, the primary usage of a helmet is to protect the head area, as equipment, not as a blunt instrument. According to rom (again), helmets are equipment, not weapons. You can't add weapon flags to 'em, you can't adjust the weapon values as you would a real weapon, hence it's equipment. Now, if you've modified your code and all to do that that's great (wouldn't really take a lot of work), but for most, it's not a limitation of either the mud or methodology, it's the game itself.
