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[pisskop]

Whoa, when did the profiles update? 

My avatar be on the wrong side.  And now there's a drop down to modify your profile.

[Teneb]

Whoa, when did the profiles update? 

My avatar be on the wrong side.  And now there's a drop down to modify your profile.

I see no difference at all. Maybe check your settings?

[pisskop]

Aye.  There be a button I've never poked before that did it.

[Loud Whispers]

hmm, now I curious what I'm thinking of. :?.

Probably any number of unfortunate bobs who got hacked and slashed instead of getting a French shave.

[AlleeCat]

I just remember that part in the Walking Dead game where you chop off the guy's leg and it's all gross and it takes, like, 4 or 5 chops and you have to press the button every time.

[smeeprocket]

I just remember that part in the Walking Dead game where you chop off the guy's leg and it's all gross and it takes, like, 4 or 5 chops and you have to press the button every time.

That sounds like fun!

[Putnam]

Bisecting people in DF is surprisingly hard to do consistently for some reason. It seems that I sometimes tear apart all the organs in the body (pancreas, kidneys, spleens, stomaches, guts), before a bisection happens. And sometimes, I do it in one-two hits.

That's because not every hit in the game is going to have the same contact area; there's inconsistency built in.

[Sergarr]

Bisecting people in DF is surprisingly hard to do consistently for some reason. It seems that I sometimes tear apart all the organs in the body (pancreas, kidneys, spleens, stomaches, guts), before a bisection happens. And sometimes, I do it in one-two hits.

That's because not every hit in the game is going to have the same contact area; there's inconsistency built in.

I'm pretty sure I already explained that it was due to organs being weapon magnets. Besides, the same behaviour happens if I put the contact area sky-high.

[scrdest]

Bisecting people in DF is surprisingly hard to do consistently for some reason. It seems that I sometimes tear apart all the organs in the body (pancreas, kidneys, spleens, stomaches, guts), before a bisection happens. And sometimes, I do it in one-two hits.

That's because not every hit in the game is going to have the same contact area; there's inconsistency built in.

I'm pretty sure I already explained that it was due to organs being weapon magnets. Besides, the same behaviour happens if I put the contact area sky-high.

That seems to be a result of the system being silly, now that I think of it. The *actual* contact area of a blade would be the integral of dl/dw from 0 to w where l is length ('height' when held normally) and w is width of a blade's edge, with a perfect edge being monomolecular, for the purposes of power calculation, with the total sword dimensions affecting only the range and mass and other stuff not directly related to force.

If the cross-section is factored into the contact area, and going from what you said, DF treats swords like, essentially, sharpened trowels instead of blades.

[Loud Whispers]

Could you make a weapon that has multiple hits like a spiked ball or serrated disc and ramp up the hits until you're guaranteed gibbing of the body part selected?

[GiglameshDespair]

And thus was invented the Dwarven Chainsaw.

[Sergarr]

Could you make a weapon that has multiple hits like a spiked ball or serrated disc and ramp up the hits until you're guaranteed gibbing of the body part selected?

Multi-hits are unfortunately reserved for trap components and they only work AFAIK when they're used as, well, trap components.

[AlleeCat]

And thus was invented the Dwarven Chainsaw.

There was also that Daedric Chainsaw mod for Oblivion.

[Aseaheru]

Chainblade for spearbreakers2

[penguinofhonor]

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