[Minor?] Change "Firearms" to "Projectile Weapons"

kenoxite · 2013-04-10T10:42:20.000Z

Just for the sake of clarity. Seeing that the “Firearms” skill is kind of a meta-skill where anything from a handgun to a grenade launcher, or bow falls under it, wouldn’t be more appropriate to rename it to “Projectile weapons”?

Benedict · 2013-04-10T11:40:53.000Z

Or “Firing” or “shooting”?

I do agree with you. It would make sense, even if it’s just a minor cosmetic change.

The_Darkling_Wolf · 2013-04-10T14:53:52.000Z

Or just ‘ranged’. I mean, we have ‘melee’.

kenoxite · 2013-04-10T15:21:58.000Z

That’s probably the best fit, yes.

Slax · 2013-04-10T18:27:46.000Z

Ballistics!

Benedict · 2013-04-10T20:42:28.000Z

The Darkling Wolf:

Or just ‘ranged’. I mean, we have ‘melee’.

Perhaps, although that doesn’t include throwing, which is technically also ranged.

The_Darkling_Wolf · 2013-04-10T21:17:03.000Z

Throwing can go suck a lemon.

kevin.granade · 2013-04-11T00:31:08.000Z

Also throwing is ballistic and ranged, so either of those still fit.

Vorpal2 · 2013-04-11T05:50:46.000Z

Being that the firearms skill is needed to make ammo types, perhaps that could be moved around as well?

Soron · 2013-04-11T05:54:32.000Z

I support “shooting” as the new name, personally.

GlyphGryph · 2013-04-11T15:02:43.000Z

I’m fine leaving it as firearms. Which is just “weapons that can be fired”. Which includes all the current stuff but not throwing.

kenoxite · 2013-04-11T15:09:21.000Z

The problem is, firearms limits its definition exclusively to guns, excluding the rest of projectile weapons.

TheFreeDictionary.com

firearm

Definition, Synonyms, Translations of firearm by The Free Dictionary

en.wikipedia.org

Firearm

A firearm is a portable gun (a barreled ranged weapon) that inflicts damage on targets by launching one or more projectiles driven by rapidly expanding high-pressure gas produced by exothermic combustion (deflagration) of propellant within an ammunition cartridge. If gas pressurization is not achieved via propellant combustion but through mechanical gas compression, then the gun is technically an air gun, not a firearm. The first primitive firearms originated in 10th-century China when bamboo tub...

Slax · 2013-04-11T19:04:24.000Z

“This covers all ranged weapons, with an exception for thrown ones.” Problem solved?

kenoxite · 2013-04-11T19:55:52.000Z

Changing its descriptions achieves little here. The skill name would still be misleading.

Mantar · 2013-04-11T22:32:52.000Z

Throwing stuff is not really a “ranged weapon,” IMO.

Slax · 2013-04-12T14:46:49.000Z

How about Marksmanship?
…is what I’d like to say, if only the skill didn’t cover weapon mods as well.

Psiweapon · 2013-04-13T09:36:38.000Z

A bow is not a firearm.

Ranged weapons please.

Nopkar · 2013-04-15T09:58:27.000Z

Why not have something like the Melee/subskills?

Ranged:

[ul][li]Archery[/li]
[li]Rifles[/li]
[li]Pistols[/li]
[li]Throwing[/li][/ul]

etc as needed

Ranged skill would give an overall buff, specific skill values benefit the player more-so

A character with a high Ranged skill modifier would be decent with most forms of ranged weapons but someone with a high Pistol would be less effective with rifles and vice versa, even if their Ranged skill were the same.

Psiweapon · 2013-04-15T16:20:14.000Z

weapon category : ranged weapons

overarching skill : marksmanship

Soron · 2013-04-15T21:17:37.000Z

[quote=“Nopkar, post:18, topic:757”]Why not have something like the Melee/subskills?

etc…[/quote]

Don’t we have essentially that system in place already? I’m not sure about throwing, and I haven’t actually checked if the code matches the documentation, but firearms is described as giving a lesser bonus compared to pistols, rifles, archery, etc.