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Can I be a tank, but identify as a submarine?
No.
This is my personal feedback, shared to help the game thrive in its niche.
Yeah exactly. Pick Tank/Tank Archetype and identify as a healer
Tank/Tank healing a teammate circa 2023, colorized.
Actually, submarines are based on water tanks, and the word "tank" in games comes from water tanks, so why don't we change the name to Submarine?
No they aren't
They're inverse water tanks!
water tank - compartment to store water in one place.
knat retaw (submarine) - compartment to store water outside of one place.
However, saying "tank" can't be the name "because it's a military vehicle" is a stupid argument. No one thinks of "military vehicle" in a fantasy MMORPG where there are no military vehicles (as we know them IRL, there are vehicles like trebuchets). Or if the game had actual military/army style stuff, like DCUO had. I don't go into wow thinking "the tank" is a Panzer. (I'm getting ideas of a skit where the raid tank is called Panzer and this ensues into a massive confusion, but this only works as a ridiculous joke).
If tank only appear in character creationn fine, but if it's on my character sheet after, it will be a bit more annoying.
Early 17th century: perhaps from Gujarati tānkũ or Marathi tānkẽ ‘underground cistern’, from Sanskrit tadāga ‘pond’, probably influenced by Portuguese tangue ‘pond’, from Latin stagnum . The military vehicle took its name from the use of tank as a secret code word during manufacture in 1915.
Technically even tank as an armored vehicle doesn't make sense.
But as per the common parlance, here is the top definition in Urban Dictionary:
Tank
1. Any person who is exceptionally large, either in terms of height, weight; being built.
2. Any person who is exceptionally strong.
Man! Hes a friggin' tank!
In that sense it perfectly fits the archetype
And even their definition would probably never exist without the armored vehicles commonly named "tank".
The only we associate tank with something resistant is the vehicle not various types of containers.
If the vehicle don't exist in world of ashe, it 's bit a awkward to use it commonly.
As such, it fits the common parlance. And as such it fits the archetype
Again if it's only in character creation, fine, if it made his way in character sheet or worst in npc dialog ("hi, we need a tank like you, can you help us?").
That the type of little detail that can erode coherence of the world.
whys that? what if in the game world tank is a type of guard?
Aquarium?
Rhododendron?
We can go endless like this
Or we can with a very safe but a bit bland defensor, or better champion(maybe a bit too "shiny" for an archetype), or bulwark (yeah not a "profession" type, but at least it referece something resistant that exist in game world).
If that's the games lore then sure I will play the Rhododendron class
Hey I kinda like that. It will be funny to watch foreigners try to do call outs and ultimately just call them tanks for simplicity.
Wait a minute...
I really think a good option for remplase the actual tank name can be something like Defender.
Oh you sneaky lil nugget, thought you could get by the ever stalwart, ever watching ToastTank!?
Addressing your points, tank perfectly fulfills the role of telling you what it does within its name and they can simply create lore to make the term and usage of tank a natural thing in Verra.
Additionally not all tanks are defenders, what about the type of tank that ccs, kites, and destracts? That requires no real interaction with another player, it's a stretch to call them a defender, but tank still fits perfectly.
Tank is a simple name to give players the direct idea of what to do with the archetype, for better or worse. I look forward to your response.
Tank just doesn't sound cool as the other archetypes, that is the problem, it isn't if fulfills the role of telling what it doies, the name Defender can do it too, prefectly says what the role he does.
"Additionally not all tanks are defenders" what the hell you mean? that is the first rol of a tank, DEFEND and take the damage, and if we see the actual skills of the tank right now is obviously their main rol is defend the others.
"Tank is a simple name to give players the direct idea of what to do with the archetype, for better or worse."
So Defender also do this, except that the name defender sounds too much better than the name tank.
Wardens are basically glorified door guards for valuable places or things, not a good general term for tanks, but Tank is. :P
If you are going to role-play in Ashes , Warden sounds much better then referring to someone as a Tank in a fantasy game. How does the word Tank even fit in a high fantasy world if actual tanks are not in the setting?
Roleplay in most cases refers to taking on a role that is lore friendly, right? If they make lore that supports tank as a name will you be happy?