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PieisJesus

Water Damage

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Swimming in water and walking in the rain makes you wet in real life, so why not in TFC? Swimming and being rained on could make your tools / weapons take more durability when in use and/or degrade into a tool head after a period of time. How cool would that be?

There's probably a lot more that can be added, but I'll leave it at that

thanks

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Swimming in water and walking in the rain makes you wet in real life, so why not in TFC? Swimming and being rained on could make your tools / weapons take more durability when in use and/or degrade into a tool head after a period of time. How cool would that be?There's probably a lot more that can be added, but I'll leave it at thatthanks

I believe that water erosion on tools would be unrealistic given the time span of some rain or treading across a river or lake.

 

I do however support the idea that "wetness" could be taken into account for some things. Running less efficiently while wet, getting colder, having a chance at becoming sick if left out too long in the rain/water (unless said water is of moderate temperature).

 

It's difficult to integrate into a game where players almost always have to cross rivers or lakes to reach destinations or will have no prior early warning before a downpour is beating down on them, and penalizing them for these things is difficult to manage to a degree where it's reasonable.

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Yes, that is true, which is why I said also that the tool could degrade into just the tool head, wood doesn't usuallystand well against water. But it was just a suggestion, so it doesn't really matter.

And yes, there are lots of rivers, you're absolutely correct with that. So I guess it isn't really fair to make players pay during the game for crossing a river.

That was a quickly shot-down suggestion, haha!

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Well, as far as I know, only iron would rust in water.

I'm pretty sure copper and bronze would be fine. I don't know of steel rusts.

But seeing tools/weapons can only be made of bronze, copper, iron, and steel...

I guess it would make rivers a good protection from people in iron gear

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A problem with this is that often people overestimate the power of rust and rot. It takes quite a while of *prolonged* exposure to a damp, anaerobic environment for wood to rot, maybe two or three weeks. That may seem short, but take into account that in hours, that is a long time, as tools are usually kept in the open, moved around and used, often left indoors or wiped down before use, etc. Rust similarly takes a long time before anything significant could happen. A tool breaking from overuse would occur long before rust or rot if it was used even on a semi-regular basis.

 

The effect is negligible, and adding it would just make for an annoyance in my opinion.

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