Would you shoot water arrows at lamps like these?

[Dragofer]

For example:

 

These lamps have oil flames encased all around in glass except for small openings in the top. My question to TDM players is:

 

Would you expect a water arrow that hits the glass to douse the flame inside? Would you aim for the top? Or would you try to hit something above the lamp so that the water can fall down into the opening?

[Spooks]

For a lamp like this I would assume it would need to be frobbed in order to turn it on/off, as the glass casing seems too closed to let water in. This coming from someone who knows about shooting water arrows above lights and letting the dropping water douse them.

[Anderson]

Thief 3 allowed something like this.

Do not know how realistic it is.

[Springheel]

We have lamps like this already and they're switchable, not extinguishable by water.

[esme]

We have lamps like this already and they're switchable, not extinguishable by water.

This, frob them to turn them off & not shoot with arrows

[SeriousToni]

Same here for me - frob it, don't shoot it!

[wesp5]

Wouldn't lamps like these break when directly hit with an arrow? Regardless of whether it would be water or not...

[teh_saccade]

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[esme]

Who says the transparent part is glass ? this is an alternative universe which while broadly similar could have some other translucent/transparent material that doesn't shatter on impact, Star Trek has transparent aluminium, maybe it's made of that

[Deadlove]

No.

[VanishedOne]

Who says the transparent part is glass ? this is an alternative universe which while broadly similar could have some other translucent/transparent material that doesn't shatter on impact, Star Trek has transparent aluminium, maybe it's made of that

Technically, most of the food in TDM is made of cloth.

[Deadlove]

Technically, most of the food in TDM is made of cloth.

We gain hit points from eating cloth? :-D

[VanishedOne]

We gain hit points from eating cloth? :-D

Not yet. It's a known bug.

[SeriousToni]

Only 1 HP per food? Man - gotta eat a lot of breads in the future..!

[Dragofer]

Alright, this looks clearly in favour of the frob + insensitive to water approach. Possibly with the exception of moveable glass lamps in case the player decides to throw one into water.

 

Other glass lamps don't shatter when they get hit so I think these shouldn't shatter either, to keep gameplay consistent.