User talk:HobbsGoblin15815

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Weapons
Hi! Welcome to The Vault. I thought I'd make you aware that we don't include content on what real-life weapons in-game weapons may resemble. Cheers.--Gothemasticator 16:32, October 1, 2010 (UTC)

whoops, my apologies. here i was merrily editing away. may i ask why?

why
Party due to excessive arguing and edit-warring over which real-world weapon(s) were used as a basis. But primarily because of the process by which in-game weapons are created. Sure, an artist or game designer might start by looking at an actual weapon, but during development game balance becomes more important than real-world accuracy, at least in this game. So, the finished product may still bear some resemblance, especially visually, to a real-world weapon, but ammo type and caliber, accuracy, weight, value, damage - there's usually little-to-no correlation with any real-world weapon. At what point can you draw a line between "based on," "modeled after," "resembles," "is?" So, at The Vault, we just leave such discussions out of the articles altogether. Feel free to collect your observations on your own user pages or in forum pages or note it on the article discussion page.--Gothemasticator 19:11, October 1, 2010 (UTC)