Sparring and damage

[Haba]

Currently you can damage (or utterly destroy) armour while sparring.

Basically it means that one never practices in "real life situation", but rather fights naked to spare their leather pants and whatnot.

Would it be possible to make it so that armour isn't damaged by sparring?

[jorb]

Not easily, though it's more loftar's thing than mine. I think its also somewhat reasonable that armor is damaged, truth to be told.

[Haba]

How about practice weapons then? Ones that are totally useless outside of sparring, but emulate the damage of "real" combat and deal reduced damage to armour?

In retrospect I can actually kind of see the usefulness of having sparring with metal weapons damage the armour normally.

[jorb]

Practice weapons might be doable. I would like it if the sparring option is useful for actually trying out PvP without having to give an arm and a leg for it, so I'll try to keep practice weapons in mind when we take our next crack at fighting.

[Emina]

How else are we gonna sneak a peak at naked dancing men? huh

Jokes aside, i hope more for the option, no armour damage wile in sparring mode.

Having to run and get your practice sword when you are out somewhere and feel like having
a fun sparr session in between whatever you are doing does not appeal to me. Maby it is more
realistic tho but very inconvenient, besides another item to store somewhere and so on...
well unless it can be made out of braches and thrown directley after use or something like that,
hmm yer maby that would work.

But how will you make sure your sparring partner is actually using the practice sword and not the real one,
hence you are not damaging hes armour but the one who forgot to change sword damages my armour.

[Potjeh]

You know what would be awesome: both training weapons and armour, which are completely useless in a real fight, but allow you to set their quality to whatever you want, so you can try out different scenarios in sparring. Also altering your skills and stats for sparring purposes would be sweet, but I assume very hard to implement.