[Tyhm]

The advent of gunpowder (or more accurately its introduction into widespread use in warfare) was pretty much the end of sword-to-sword combat. Martial arts and any sort of armor verses a cannonball, the cannonball always wins.

The general idea behind Graal is that it's several hundred years in the future (800 in Classic) - the world has undergone a huge disaster. Few survived. Of those few, little knowledge has been regained - the combustibles are so volatile they're only useful in bombs, etc. Only recently have the top scientists of the past been able to infuse alien technology to regain lost arts - gokarts, spaceships, etc., but these are rare, and the general populous relies on horses and swords.

I remember there was a server that had a Busy-Town, it had paved roads. Mleh. If you wanna play GTA, play GTA. While the Graal engine is flexible enough to support basically any sort of game, some things just don't fit...I'm not real big on the Zal Rifles, nor the GoKarts. I wanted them to be horses. Oh well.