Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-27179278-20161018034950/@comment-26553378-20161018115312

very impressed, you brought up little known facts about each update, but you didnt bring up many of the obvious cons:

weapon cooldowns would become somewhat unrealistic with the ability to swing while cooling down, also there is the same time cooldown for both hitting and missing, there should be much more wait for a hit (even mith doesnt sweep through bone flesh clothes and armor without resistance)

Second hand: wow, this would be so annoying to do, have you ever seen anyone through something with their non-dominant hand? even if ambidextrious, or converted, they can't throw worth a lick, therefore a spear or throwing axe would need to test for what hand is used in order to get an accuracy/strength modifier as well as testing if you are currently swinging with your other hand, also there are some other things, such as bows/blowguns and reloading crossbows (not firing) those activities all require 2 hands, meaning it would have to test for an item other than the propper ammunition or air in your other hand in order to fire, and if more than 1 of the ammunition it would have to lower accuracy. also duel wielding melee is an actual thing, typically done with a large 1 hand sword and a smaller parrying sword, it was a rare way of fighting, that was most likely used in ME.

THE ID CATASTROPHE: among other things the "great ID catastrophe" prevented many large mods from updating to 1.8, in fact many skipped it altogether going to more useful versions like 1.9, this would make the mod take months, if not a year or more to update, now i know this is also from the changing of how methods are called, and changes in algorithms and AI, but it is easier to call it by a name familiar to all.

also no versions past 1.6.4/1.7.10 have been remotely as famous for legendary mods such as LotR, buildcraft, AM, botania, thaumcraft, witchery, or really any big mods.

other than that i cant think of many more arguments, but still take that into consideration, i don't want to wait nearly if not over a year for an fps upgrade and shields, time that could be used to further the tauredain, the elves, or even add the ability for custom factions without extra mods/plugins

also i believe it was even in the FAQ, Mevans will not be taking any more coders into the mod team