[NTJedi]

Originally posted by SurvivalistMerc:
NT Jedi,

Weapons and shields don't have to "fall off" to cease providing some of their benefits. Surely a shield is not benefitting you as a shield if you are lying on top of it. And if it's not benefitting you as a shield, perhaps its magical powers are also not operating.

The way this game works... if the magic shield is equipped the unit gets the benefits from the shield. AS this game works paralyzed units DO NOT lose the powers of equipped items. That's the way this game works.

Rather than requiring an entire battle round to re-equip items, why not just assume that this time is included and factored into the "duration" of the paralysis?

Because a unit unequipped is not completely helpless or paralyzed... OBVIOUSLY a Titan is still very deadly even if he is unequipped.

I have both seen and used shields. And there is not a single one that I think would be of much use to someone who has fallen down and can't move a muscle.

The game has already included where paralyzed units are more vunerable so that's in the game. However these are magical shields... and paralyzed units do not lose their magical enchantments in this game when paralyzed... thus the items are still equipped.

There is nothing in the paralyzation spell description to indicate that you "stiffen up" when paralyzed. In fact, such a "stiffened up" condition would not typically be called paralysis...at least not in English.

Again as I said early there are many different types of paralyzation and there is nothing in the description of paralyzation which indicates units fall down either.

Why would you fall down? Because muscular activity...in the voluntary muscles...is required to keep standing.

AGAIN... NOT all units can fall down... fire elementals... sphinx... etc... THUS don't go believing it always happens. And as I said before there are DIFFERENT types of paralyzation. Again there have been many other games where paralyzation does NOT cause units to fall down.

Surely, given the nature of graphics in Dom 2, you will not conclude that the absence of graphics in which one is lying down is not dispositive on the issue. Surely you will concede that most non-magical units do sleep periodically, even though there are no lying down figurines on the overland map. [/QB]

Doesn't have to be graphics added into the battlefield.

[ February 18, 2004, 17:37: Message edited by: NTJedi ]