burgingham wrote:@gauteamus: I certainly prefer a fast and stupid combat system over one where I have to stand around and wait for 5 minutes before anything happens.
Are you talking about PvP or PvE primarily here?
I am not at all saying the current combat system is neither fun nor "brainy", but if you do not have 5 minutes to spare when the matter on the scales is 4 months of a person grinding, I feel you should do like me and go back to making beet art (I should add I hardly hunt, and as good as never engage in PvP).
In a permadeath game, combat should not be fast and stupid.
But yeah, the source of fun in world 2 came from its politics, and combat does not have to be intricate to allow game of thrones Diplomacy.
I do obviously not have a fast and stupid answer to how to bring back Dipomacy through mechanics.
It is part of what made world 1 so fun - so few actual mechanics to abide by, and so little world space to do it in

Statement: I think the current combat system is better than the old one, but I do not have valid arguments to confirm my position.