A note about the future

[Kong Ming]

As for Snipers, we are not talking about giving you terrible accuracy, not at all. Right now you have about 6-7 seconds or so pinpoint acuraccy at Sniper level. We are going to bring this down to around 1-2 seconds, but increase your rate of fire. The projectile speed might decrease a bit as well, we will see during testing. You will still have a lot of killing power, but crossbows will be the one who can take their time and aim for the heavy targets and archers hail down death at a rapid rate. I will also mention that more AI might decide to leave their shield at home with this patch. 

Thank you for clarifying Worm, I hadn't thought about the sustain time on accuracy.  I have always felt it was awfully long in this mod so 1-2 seconds sounds more appropriate.  My ideal image of the two classes (archer/xbow) would be that both achieve pinpoint accuracy at top tier, however, archers can maintain this only very briefly while xbowmen can do so indefinitely.  Archer rate of fire would be higher than xbow, but flight speed and damage would be significantly less.

As you develop xbowmen, I will be curious to see how you deal with their general mobility problems.  Being unable to move while reloading seems rather crippling.

Whatever the results, I look forward to your work!

-K