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One of the sadder quotes for me...

"Unfortunately making 28.8kbps modems outperform DSL was never one of my design goals."
--Jonathan, November 1 2003 2:37 PM EST

Spellchecking is semi-officially known as "the Viperboy feature." Although I suspect that if KMAC had been around in pre-spellcheck days, he would have given VB a run for his money. :)

--Jonathan, April 2 2004 3:57 PM EST

A list of the old CB1 weapons early on:

Feb 2002 Armor/Weapons

name | cost | class | subclass | rarity | damage
---------------------+-------+--------+----------+--------+--------
Sling | 38 | ranged | sling | 0 | 1
Short Bow | 88 | ranged | bow | 5 | 2
Staff Sling | 88 | ranged | sling | 3 | 2
Rounded Pebble | 0.16 | ammo | shot | 0 | 3
Light Crossbow | 240 | ranged | crossbow | 14 | 3
Long Bow | 216 | ranged | bow | 12 | 3
Composite Bow | 501 | ranged | bow | 20 | 4
Heavy Crossbow | 501 | ranged | crossbow | 30 | 4
Dagger | 23 | melee | edged | 0 | 4
Iron Shot | 0.32 | ammo | shot | 0 | 5
Compound Bow | 717 | ranged | bow | 30 | 5
Main Gauche | 33 | melee | edged | 2 | 5
Spear | 43 | melee | polearm | 4 | 7
Rapier | 48 | melee | edged | 4 | 7
Small Sword | 53 | melee | edged | 5 | 7
Whip | 38 | melee | hafted | 3 | 7
Arrow | 0.6 | ammo | arrow | 0 | 8
Short Sword | 82 | melee | edged | 9 | 9
Cutlass | 79 | melee | edged | 8 | 9
Sabre | 54 | melee | edged | 5 | 9
Trident | 100 | melee | polearm | 12 | 10
Awl-Pike | 163 | melee | polearm | 34 | 10
Ball-and-Chain | 228 | melee | hafted | 20 | 10
Mace | 172 | melee | hafted | 13 | 10
Bolt | 1 | ammo | bolt | 0 | 10
Tulwar | 232 | melee | edged | 20 | 11
War Hammer | 335 | melee | hafted | 22 | 12
Quarterstaff | 143 | melee | hafted | 20 | 12
Scimitar | 441 | melee | edged | 25 | 15
Broad Sword | 447 | melee | edged | 26 | 15
Long Sword | 501 | melee | edged | 30 | 15
Lucerne Hammer | 587 | melee | hafted | 38 | 15
Pike | 567 | melee | polearm | 36 | 15
Bastard Sword | 742 | melee | edged | 35 | 19
Beaked Axe | 622 | melee | edged | 41 | 19
Glaive | 573 | melee | edged | 36 | 19
Broad Axe | 506 | melee | edged | 30 | 19
Morning Star | 609 | melee | hafted | 40 | 19
Flail | 562 | melee | hafted | 35 | 19
Lead-Filled Mace | 955 | melee | hafted | 50 | 19
Katana | 814 | melee | edged | 40 | 20
Battle Axe | 540 | melee | edged | 33 | 23
Scythe | 1492 | melee | edged | 65 | 26
Halberd | 857 | melee | polearm | 43 | 26
Great Axe | 1165 | melee | edged | 50 | 28
Claymore | 1820 | melee | edged | 70 | 33
Two-Handed Flail | 1069 | melee | hafted | 59 | 33
Executioner's Sword | 1850 | melee | edged | 55 | 38
Lochaber Axe | 1879 | melee | edged | 90 | 48
Glaive of Pain | 10000 | melee | polearm | 101 | 100

class | name | cost | rarity | ac
------------+----------------------------+-------+--------+----
body armor | Soft Leather Armour | 973 | 2 | 4
body armor | Soft Studded Leather | 1650 | 2 | 5
body armor | Hard Leather Armour | 1743 | 4 | 6
body armor | Hard Studded Leather | 2190 | 9 | 7
body armor | Leather Scale Mail | 6079 | 14 | 11
body armor | Metal Scale Mail | 7108 | 24 | 13
body armor | Chain Mail | 9050 | 24 | 14
body armor | Double Ring Mail | 8577 | 24 | 15
body armor | Augmented Chain Mail | 10432 | 29 | 16
body armor | Double Chain Mail | 9978 | 29 | 16
body armor | Bar Chain Mail | 10880 | 34 | 18
body armor | Metal Brigandine Armour | 12197 | 34 | 19
body armor | Partial Plate Armour | 13052 | 44 | 22
body armor | Metal Lamellar Armour | 13474 | 44 | 23
body armor | Full Plate Armour | 14307 | 44 | 25
body armor | Ribbed Plate Armour | 15530 | 49 | 28
body armor | Mithril Chain Mail | 34635 | 54 | 28
body armor | Mithril Plate Mail | 35754 | 59 | 35
body armor | Adamantite Plate Mail | 62714 | 74 | 40
cloak | Cloak | 640 | 0 | 1
cloak | Robe | 2241 | 0 | 2
cloak | Elven Cloak | 9050 | 29 | 4
cloak | Shadow Cloak | 13474 | 74 | 6
footwear | Pair of Soft Leather Boots | 459 | 2 | 2
footwear | Pair of Hard Leather Boots | 705 | 4 | 3
footwear | Pair of Metal Shod Boots | 2190 | 19 | 6
gloves | Pair of Leather Gloves | 235 | 0 | 1
gloves | Pair of Gauntlets | 951 | 9 | 2
gloves | Pair of Cesti | 2190 | 49 | 5
headgear | Hard Leather Cap | 705 | 2 | 2
headgear | Metal Cap | 842 | 9 | 3
headgear | Iron Helm | 1743 | 19 | 5
headgear | Steel Helm | 3233 | 39 | 6
shield | Small Leather Shield | 485 | 2 | 2
shield | Small Metal Shield | 728 | 9 | 3
shield | Large Leather Shield | 1459 | 14 | 4
shield | Large Metal Shield | 2190 | 29 | 5

Ball & Chain that one should have stuck around lol...

"I am quiting as some may have noticed i am liquidating my assets
i will have a nice set of armour a nice exec and a sweet heavy xbow to give away post if u want it someone will get it all

-- zerocool{quiting}, October 8 2002 12:11 PM EDT "

Was this the first formal quitter?

Ball-and-Chain...that sounded like a very hardcore weapon. Lamellar Armor? Wow. The very definition of ..''oomph''

It would seem very superficial of me to say bring em back but...
These just strike fear into the hearts of your enemies, you know?

Elven gear? Good, but not manly. Spellboosters? Nerdy. Lead-Filled Mace...I read it and I hurt! Wow. Goes so well with the overall theme of CB. Carnage and gore!

This is meant to be a light-hearted, innofensive post but I feel our arsenal's ''oomph'' got somewhat dilluted. Maybe something minor can be done about it? Just throwing out an idea here.

(PS: I miss ammo. It made characters look more hardcore.)

After evaluating multiple posts, it's PROVEN!! Yes, Bart is the official apprentice of Jon's school of sarcasm art and meanie-ness. :D

--Nonsensical Knight, March 6 2004 6:50 PM EST

I'm clicking links and all I'm getting is the log in page and old mr swirly head. Is it just me?

not just you JW.... but you should be able to click "Community Page" or "discussion boards" on that page to get into some records.

and how about we resurrect this poll (by Jon):
_____________________________________________________________________
Should ignoring chat ops be legal?

The argument against is basically that if they subsequently get disciplined, they won't know why.

The argument for is that if they want to take that risk, it's their choice to make.

Which one will result in more whining from stupid people would be a deciding factor in my mind but that's still an open question...

Total of 353 votes


Ignoring ops should be legal 35.7
Ignoring ops should not be legal 31.4
Ignoring Mushu should be actively encouraged 32.9

Doh. Thanks!