A possible direction for CTF...

[zeep]

I would enjoy CTF if it had respawn time.

You die your respawn time adds .5 seconds. When a flag is captured respawn times reset back to 0.

[Thor]

What exactly would this add to the game?

[kill]

Who are you?

[MysticX2X]

triptelvecho said:

Prize for Championship game is 120 tickets and a trophey already
Plans for a CTF Viewer are about to be worked on. Already have the basic concept down
Plans for a CTF House have been discussed by Nighty and myself, same for a 'Hall of Fame" for those who participated through the entire first season.
and much much more i dont want to release quite yet

Alot of whats in this thread i was going to release after the Championship game, and discuss with players. Night and I have had extensive talks about where the league goes from here.

Though, of course, id need support from players (like i did this season) to get alot done before the next season. Great ideas in the thread, and any help scripting/building lvls id appreciate.
SK dont take so long to speak up with ideas

Why a hall of flame. All the good people didnt really even play that much in the league.

[gladius]

@ sneaks idea.

Not bad, but not possible.

Classic playercount is pathetic. On our best days, which was over the holidays, we had 40-50 ppl on. That alone isn't that great. A good third of that number was trials and noobs and RCs.

The problem with CTF Leagues, town teams, etc. is trying to get so many people online at the same time. This is why most leagues fail and/or don't live long.

Besides, two-three towns would have all the good players and the other towns wouldn't have a real reason to play.

Plus, Babord's CTF Team would own ez.

[MysticX2X]

wtf do u guys do all day rather than talking about ctf.

[gladius]

Work, school, not host ctf, try to avoid hosting ctf, and try to get mystic banned.

[MysticX2X]

only ppl like rufus who are on till 6 am their time would try and get me banned that bad.

[zeep]

thor said:

What exactly would this add to the game?

It would add strategy so that defense isn't so overpowered.

[cetellic]

Defense is overpowered, but when you get offensive powerhouses with a good supporter it evens up. Also when you die you cannot move for a couple of seconds while you die, further limitations would make the defense impossible and cripple the free style of the game.

Sneaky's idea is good though, playercount is apart of the problem BUT if the idea works out correctly the playercount will boost and no longer be a problem. Classic's CTF is as competitive as sparring, if not more, so abusing Classic's best attribute could save the day.

[gladius]

Defense ftw.

But defense isn't as good as people say it is. People can get past the defense, but getting back out is the problem, especially if their support died and they are trapped by multiple defenders.

Then, even if you get out, you have to defend on your teamates to have kept the flag where it belongs, and you have to defend them from ppl chasing the flag runner.

CTF is a team effort.

[MysticX2X]

this whole skill thing is a hoax. Its just a matter of people knowing what the hell they're doing. Usually when the other team scores its the defense fault not because the offender was sweet aka why im annoyed at people giving deophite so much credit when he just strategizes most the time.

[SneakyKnight]

I guess a better question would be, who would help on this effort, because it obviously needs to be a conglomorate of people in order to do this.

[gladius]

Depends when you attempt it. Trip's league might have not been at the best time, since it was close to the holidays, and got conflicted with my team's playoff run.

Now, obviously, you can't schedual your league around one person's schedual. Having it around the holidays might have not been the best idea, but I don't think it got in the way really.

If we are going to attempt something like this, we'd need to advertise the league and get other people from other servers to come and get used to classic. We'd need some more things on the server to keep them around while we trained them in the Classic art form of CTF.

Until the server improves and a good, clear plan is set in stone, we can only theorize and hope.

[Yump]

It's hard to have people working on this because anyone's good ideas and work are bastardized by the GC and LATs who take up work on them.