Jousting + viable system maybe?

[overtyped]

This is one thing all noble hearthlings who want to earn honor in sport want, but how to do?
I say jousting should be similar to archery, in the way you aim. There will be a short delay before your lance becomes active, and the lance cannot change direction while "aimed" you are only able to move only in a single direction, the direction your lance is pointing.
The hit detection could be similar to an arrow? but unlike regular unarmed and armed combat.

It is essentially a third system of combat, reliant on horse mounted movement, and precise control.

[linkfanpc]

If so, maybe there could be a sort of rock-paper-scissors system. Melee is good against Archery, Archery is good against Jousting, Jousting is good against Melee. Or something like that.

[viznew]

would def be fun and would be cool to have something specialized to horses and the rock paper scissors does sound nice

there chould be multi lances even for use on horse back (mabye like one is better for pve and one pvp (mabye a maneuver to resit to some degree rawhide)), spear can like stand and fight and not so good at the charge(looks like and functions like dude useing a spear) , and lance a hit and run weapon best used in a charge and atk (holds and functions like a jousting lance) or something like that

(edit) say its an ip move (cause gives reason to walk past each other like thay did irl lol) once activate horse runs at what ever speed you got set for a defined distance and you gotta manually aim the lance (say lance is one handed and can equip sheild) if not a "perfect" hit little off from center it will deflect and only cause small dam but also a small chance to get knocked off, and if perfect hit higher chance to knock other rider off (thou kinda sounds bottable to me) lol idk i want it thou alot

[DreadDawson]

could also add horse armor for this, slows the animal, but makes them take less damage from attacks

[azrid]

Yes

[Attas]

I doubt the devs would add it just as a sport, but it would be nice to see some combat changes that added mounted attacks. After all, being mounted in a combat equals death nowadays, with Raw Ride and dismounting.

hat way jousts as a sport would be able to be done via sparring.

[jorb]

Mindful of making horse combat too viable, because that is what it quickly becomes, but who in their right mind can, on the other hand, say no to manly jousting?

[AntiBlitz]

could having a separate skill of horse combat be a viable alternative? potentially introducing it as something that you need both say melee combat and horse combat, or Riding, or whatever the hell you call it, horsemanship. Might be convoluting the system too much. Not sure, not dev lol.

[MadNomad]

would be fun if someone built a market for community and then also prepared some arena for tournaments with rewards