Not sure where this thread is going, but I will put in my two cents...because I can!
Oh, and please keep in mind, this is just an opinion.
Buffed combat in RP is a tad silly in my opinion. We claim that the game is already unbalanced and "unrealistic". Why is it so unreasonable to bend the rules of realism just a teensy bit further by using the buff system? I mean it
is part of the SWG system afterall.
Rebecca, I understand and accept your view on buffs in a certain sense. If you want to solo a Krayt, be my guest and I wish you luck. It is a pretty impressive feat to take one down all by your lonesome.
However, when talking about buffs in rp, we need to look at things a little differently. What is "role-play"? I mean really. The way I always looked at it was attempting to make something as lifeless as lines of code for a computer program, devoid of humanity and personality, and make it
real. As real as it can ever possibly be.
Do buffs bring any semblence of the realism we should be hoping to achieve in RP? I would say no. Regardless of whether or not it was built into the "system", we are RP'ers have to realize that it is too far out of whack to include in Realistic RP. For me it is essentially the straw that breaks the camel's back.
When we say, hey if you want to talk smack and rp being a bad ass, back it up by being buffed to the teeth...what are we saying?
"I cant stress enough that the problem with dueling is not buffs, it is dueling. You want realism? Dont duel."
So in essence, since you don't want to play by someone else's rules, then you should play by mine? And naturally, mine supercede yours because mine take advantage of an imbalance that happens to occur naturally in the game? I always assumed that RP combat was to be done unbuffed. An unwritten rule, but a rule, nonetheless.
I think that Dariis is onto something with his fight nights and combat tactics. I personally feel that there are ways to be very effective unbuffed in all combat professions. There are low ham weapons in different profs and mastery of special attacks and more importantly, their effects, is where we should be devoting our attention.
