15th September 2004, 12:42 AM
That's where the FPS analogy fails actually... Someone with a big gun would pose a huge obstacle to all except the guy with the sniper rifle perched 100 meters away... Also, in an FPS, you can take a hit. In the real world, every bullet is an instant kill, or near enough.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)