Fire steel striker better than matches

[pilgrim* 3514]

A fire-steel striker is a common object - here in the country farmers have them in a pocket, hunters, military, campers, all carry them. Even housewives have them in the kitchen to light the stove.

 

 

They last a year or more, cost almost nothing.

 

So why bother with matches? (16 matches in a box? nah...)

 

xx pilgrim

[Dchil 829]

No point at the moment. Matches don't do anything useful. (unless you want to use a gas lamp. What for i have no idea, maybe a trap at night.)

Edited March 25, 2014 by Dchil

[Damnyourdeadman 1045]

Here's what i think.

We should have limited matches,but insta-fire (with a chance of premature extiguishment)

and the steel and flint unlimited spark, but takes alot of time.

If Rocket skill proposition about doing something alot and you get

better at it is valid,this would be a nice example.