>You're right that implementing a bad system would be worse
>than doing nothing. I admitted straight away that it would be
>a large project.
>
>But saying we should avoid large projects because we might do
>them wrong is a cop-out.
>

Uh. So, I didn't even mean to imply that you'd "do them wrong". Really. I have all the faith in the world in some of the immstaff that would certainly be involved in this (yourself included). The random off the cuff "nightmarish" things I threw out there would be very clearly analyzed by people that are more current on this #### than I am. I believe that if it were undertaken, that it would be done right.

My whole point is... why? Jebus, why? Why fix something that ain't broke? We have a hugely intricate detailed combat system that has probably thousands of hours of balancing and tweaking to give realism and fun to the concepts of avoid/absorb/physical/magic/etc.

Gear, in CF, is about the stat modifiers.

AC... armor class.. is used by other games AS that system. We _HAVE_ one. It's a _GOOD_ one. It's constnatly updated.

Why invest that much in something that isn't broken?