Post 18 Oct 2012, 14:52 by Siegfried
I'm just throwing this idea out because of the sake of completion:
if we think about the 'realistic' way, than consider the weight of bolts and arrows. A bowman can take several dozens of arrows with him. But a xbow only a few to a dozen bolts because of this weight.
So instead of increasing the bowmen fire rate, introduce a kind of 'refill rate'. Make it such, that the bowman can fire all the time. But the xbowman has to wait every 3 or 5 or whatever number of seconds for one second until he can fire again.
So effectively a decrease in xbow fire rate, but implemented in a different way.