...so I stuck a melee weapon on your melee weapon so you can hurt people while you hurt people."
Any chance we can get melee weapons to accept melee weapons in their subcomponents? This would allow multiple use weapons, to wit:
[BEGIN]
%This does not currently work as of GearHead 2 v.535
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Melee 5
Name <Quarterstaff>
Desc <Two ends of whacking fun.>
Category <WEAPON MELEE>
Speed 4
Legality 0
sub
....Melee 4
....Name <Quarterstaff Backstroke>
....Speed 3
end
[END]
We are still able to simulate it to a limited degree, thanks to tools' subcomponent feature:
[BEGIN]
%Works great as of GearHead 2 v.535!
%Periods were added as indentation and are not part of normal syntax.
Tool 15 1
Name <Crowbar>
Desc <When the only tool you have is a crowbar...>
Category <TOOL WEAPON MELEE>
Speed 3
Legality -5
sub
....Melee 4
....Name <Crowbar Bludgeon>
....Type <NONLETHAL>
....Speed 3
....
....Melee 5
....Name <Crowbar Hook>
....Speed 1
....Type <ARMORPIERCING>
end
[END]
...However, this semantically requires that the item has an actual tool use of some sort. You can drop the skill benefit from "Tool 15 1" to "Tool 15 0" so it provides +0 to the skill (Mecha Repair in this case), but then it obviates the reason why you'd make it a tool at all.
[edit] Whoops. Discovered that I had downloaded but not extracted v.610. v.610 actually breaks compatibility with the Tool macro in a bad way (sigh), so I'll have to work out what's changed before I can make a current report.
[edit2] Tool 15 1 (Mecha Repair +1) and Tool 23 1 (General Repair +1) were rendered equivalent with RepairTool 1 (Repair +1). Meh. I never was fond of the reduction in the skill list, which is probably why I downloaded but never installed v.602... but playing with the new version does seem like an improvement after all.
