Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27425734-20170826213348/@comment-25936766-20180205131622

141.135.241.129 wrote:

1) mass produced weapons are never tested and developed, they Just appear out of nowhere,

2) fieldtesting is a thing, so there are a lot of things that need improvement

3) I point to the discussion between sentry, Malcolm and phantom, about the conservation of action

4) like regular guns don't have a system to keep the magazine in place when it needs to and can quickly be released when it needs to,a simple spring loaded lock on the side of the cartridge would be enough

5) or did I need to add the reminder to breathe in my very condensed explenation of the reloading mechanism

6) he has 1,5cm that's enough, i've seen worse

7) the barrel is at the thickest 21cm wide the inner ring is 10cm across that's 5,5cm of thickness of RWBYverse metal that they won't cheap out on,it is not a mass produced weapon yet, if that can't block something stronger then Jaune's old if improved shield then there is something fundamentally wrong With the world

8) i've seen plenty of "sounds like" names so leak is perfectly fine if i hear it's name in my mothertongue i immediatly picture what it looks like in my mind, just like you probably would if you heard the word apple

1) You must be drunk if you think that. First they are developed and tested, and if they're practical enough, mass-produced. No country in the world has ever mass-produced untested stuff.

2) And if there are a lot of things that need improvement just to make the weapon practical to be used by the common soldier, why the hell would anyone, let alone an ADMIRAL, use that shit instead of something ACTUALLY practical?

No military ever gives their soldiers untested, shitty experimental weapons and tells them to "stick to it and deal with it". A bad weapon can make a world of difference in a fight, and the last thing anyone would want is that their soldiers lose.

3) Conservation of action is just out-of-universe. Not showing the characters reloading because it would break the pace in a fight, supposedly. In-universe, everyone has to reload at some point because ammo is not infinite.

That conservation of action you're quoting is as relevant to a weapon, as the writers using a bird-eye camera view during a fight. Cool, they did it, but that has nothing to do with the weapon, and - news flash - does not make it any better or worse at all because it's irrelevant to it.

4) You should've mentioned it in the weapon's post where you described the weapon.

5) Yes. The description needs to be detailed, not vague, because if it's vague no one has an idea of how it's supposed to work or if it even works to begin with. It's not other people's fault if they don't understand something because you never explained it and then question the design.

6) 1,5m....in what? His own height? The weapon's length? I'll assume the latter.

With a warhammer that long, and with so much weight on it's head, there's no way he can block anything well with it. The weapon is too long and the weight is too unbalanced to make it work.

7) Thick =/= Good for blocking. Just because the barrel is thick by barrel standards it doesn't mean it's going to block hits well. And besides, a thick barrel - doubling as the handle - just means it's going to be harder to hold the weapon well as you swing it around, unless John happens to have giant Donkey Kong hands. But then, how does he reach the trigger.

And even if it could block a hit, the weight and length make even attempting to block something needlessly hard. Comparing it to Jaune's shield is the worst thing you could've done, because Shields are designed entirely to defend the wielder, and are very, very practical for this purpose.

If your thick barrel of your long, heavy warhammer, could block things as well as Jaune's shield can, then something would be fundamentally wrong with the world.

8) Except, you forget another rule: Makes you think of a color.

If you write Leak, no one, NO ONE is going to think of Leek in the slightest, they'll think of Leaks. Even if they sound about the same, if you write Leak, people will think Leak, not Leek.

"Sounds like a color", refers to things like "Cyril Ian", which sounds like Cerulean (that's a canon example btw), or "Viridi Ann", which sounds like Viridian, or "Apol", which sounds like Apple.

If you want the name to refer to Leeks, then just name him LEEK, and BOOM, problem fixed, now his name fits CNR and is pronounced the same way, nothing is lost.

And if you think "John Leek" sounds dumb, well, so does "John Leak", plus there's a canon character called Shay D. Mann so who cares if the name is dumb, there's been dumber.