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I am sick of this ****.
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Well, I tried to tell you that you definitely have serious nomenclature problems, and that in my opinion, the weapon balance needs work, but instead you decided to act like an unappreciated martyr, and in the light of the outpouring of love, I do not think there is a point in my arguing balance with you. If you think that it is OK that a "Balanced one-handed knight's claymore" is more damaging and faster, when used one handed, than Kingslayer, then there is little to talk about. I will point out that you did your calculations assuming extremely high weapon proficiency, which will never reached by 99% of players, while still arguing that Kingslayere is an early weapon, but hey, lets ignore that.
I'm not going to argue with you. I'll just give you an information dump that only concerns UNIVERSALLY AGREED SWORD NOMENCLATURE in ENGLISH.
1) What you call 'production lines' is better called 'Archetypes'. Archetype implies commonality. Production line implies common origin, which is clearly not the case here.
2) Zweihanders and Claymores should not be archetype names. They are both names of different variants of true two-handed swords. Knight's sword is another name, this one applied to a variant of dedicated one handed swords.
3) In numerous places in Perisno, the model and the name are a complete mismatch, at least compared to universally accepted English terminology.
3.1 The sword called "Wakizashi" is 98cm long. This is too long for a wakizashi, which means 'side inserted sword' and refers of the shorter sword of the set. 98cm is much too long even for a katana or tachi. In Japanese, that sword would be called a ōdachi (to emphasize its size) or nodachi (to emphasize its use)
3.2 The one handed swords named "Claymore" use the model of the Scottish two handed sword, and have the function of a "Knight's sword".
3.3 The swords named "Zweihander" use models of late medieval Beidhänder which was carried and used as polearm, despite having a sword's construction. Zweihander is a generic, modern term for any two handed sword. Beidhänder, which emphasizes that both hands are used, would be a better term to refer to the weapons that cannot be used on horseback.
3.4 Many swords named "Longsword" use models of basket hilt swords, also known as broadswords. Longsword is the technical name for a bastard sword.
3.5 The "Rapier" is 80cm, much too short to be classified as such. It has the length of a dress or court sword.
3.6 The swords named "Nordic swords" mostly use models of arming swords. The Viking swords were never very different from contemporary European swords. After all, the Vikings really got around, the British isles, Paris, Byzantium, and their swords were (often superior) examples of whatever the technology allowed.
3.7 It is strange to talk about gladiī and Legion swords as separate archetypes. There is no distinction made between gladiī and spathae in the mod, and I cannot see what else a legion archetype would be, given that the Third legion has a definite roman vibe.
Anyway. I doubt anyone will rename the swords so that the names match the models or at least the function. But when you have such conflicts it makes the mod look unpolished, just like having a siege crossbow weight practically the same as some human one handed swords. As for why no one complains about axes? Because the models are completely fantastical, and have no basic in reality. One can just assume they work as weapons because of divine assistance (shamanism, old gods, etc.) But to those who actually care about swords, some of the names are about as appropriate as using "bullpup torsion composite yumi" for a self-bow.
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... or any other language for that matter, simply does NOT exist!
