Hit Hard, Take Decent?

[Firoth]

Now, let me just state beforehand that I in NO way condone nor encourage rhino-hiding. Quite the opposite in fact, as I think it's one of the few things that ruins the mood at battles. Cheating always puts people in a negative mindset.

Anyway, I just wanted to use your time to say the following:

From here on out, I am going to make a conscious effort to avoid taking glancing, super-light, and garb-only shots to my being, which I would have otherwise taken in the past as a limb or death.

Now, I won't be doing this to be a douche. I want to try and fix a recurring problem that I've been noticing in our newbies.

Many of our new peeps have been buttering, letting others run into their swords, or doing this weird half-hearted thrust swing that ends up leading to confusion. These are NOT correct striking techniques.

So, as a result, I will be altering how I judge being hit. I still believe fully in the "Hit Hard, Take Light" motto, but I will only take it if it's actually a solid hit, not just a weapon that managed to make contact with me.

Hopefully some of this will make sense, and maybe other experienced people that can accurately judge a hit will try to follow suit.

Thank you for your time,

~Firoth

[Dorian Prior]

Pretty sure if you asked the other experienced people, they'd say they're already doing it.

Just going to throw that out there.

But good for you.

[zalos]

When I came to practice a few weeks back I noticed people where hitting light and making glancing strikes. That was the practice when the muncie peeps came down and it had a couple newbies. I took good solid hits, even if they were a bit light, but called out garb and glancing. But thats what I always do.

[Baethor]

Yeah, i always point out a buttering strike to newbs and then tell em they gotta hit me.

[Firoth]

Dorian you'd be surprised. I know a few of our older members that'll take anything that will hit them, just like me.

~Frothy

[MacDimm]

This sounds like an excellent idea. I try to be nice to people and take weenie tap hits and glances, but i think i'm just hindering them in the long run. No more of that. Also: at some point a rumor got started that there is no such thing as a "light" green, meaning I've had people call their stabs on me (a big no no) when I literally felt nothing whatsoever. This isn't a MM specific problem, but something i've noticed here and there. Greens are not under the projectile rule that the weapon just has to deflect. A noticeable force is still required. I realize this is a little trickier to calibrate due to foam compression and the felt "force" in the wielder's hand, but still something we should watch.

[Firoth]

Well, it's not so much the impact force that I judge my hits by, its more of the actual impact area. I still won't call light hits unless it's pure crap.

I'll take greens as long as they stick for atleast a split second. I know that unless people make an effort to make their stabby covers out of wool, or make them concave or similar, its hard for stabbies to get a solid hit on a limb. Acknowledging this, I try to take any green that makes contact with me. That's, again, a personal thing though.

~Firoth

P.s. You should never call your own shots. :/ That's just poor form. If they don't take it, just swing harder.

[Kazzell KumoKi]

so i should replace my tip covers with wool to increase damage recognition!

[Baethor]

and your nervous system so we dont break your legs when hitting you

[Firoth]

Wool sticks and drags It's like velcro, baby.

Look it up

~Frothy