PUBLIC CTF, Lets do it!

[triptelvecho]

So i got to thinking, man ive been sitting online with about 12 other players waiting for something/anything to happen. Ya u know where im going with this:

Pros:
1. No GC online, no problem. we can keep a decent player count without one.
2. Hey im not going to venture to UN or get sucked into Era becuase i have something to do on CLASSIC instead of idle.
3. Private invite room makes it capable to bring only your reliable friends who want a competitive game!
4. NO TICKETS AWARDED. Strictly for fun and will not flood the server with tickets like in the past.
5. Cross server players might flock to this playing their own public ctf matches, leading to more players and fresh ideas (possibly new help for the server).


Cons:
1. Yes i realize ppl will leave, or lag. Nothing is ever perfect, and nothing ever will be.
2. I understand GC's want to host events besides CTF, but dont let that stand in the way of keeping the players happy AND online.
3. If you (the GC) cant get enough players for pictionary/drunken stupor cuz they are in Public CTF, dont fret, they are having fun and online on OUR server.
4. Ctf is all we have what if we get burned out on it?? Then you will be damn happy when a PIT LMS is hosted or anything else!

I realise past ideas were brought up about public ctf and it was shot down. GC's feel vulnerable, ppl dont want it over hosted, but why stop a good idea? Lets keep our players online for a good reason, lets allow them to entertain themselves when no Hosting is happening.

This is an idea to help those who enjoy classic, enjoy CTF, but just cant log on for 4-5 hrs waiting for 1 single game of CTF. Bugs can be worked out throught trial and error, we have a damn good dev team, and with thor/others supervising im sure anything is possible.

[gladius]

Few thoughts.

Too much of anything, including ctf, is a bad thing.

If there's a supervisor, isn't it basically a GC that doesn't give out tickets? And would there be a punishment for people who idled/stopped trying, etc.

If a public ctf does exist, GCs will never be able to host anything else b/c ppl will never join non-ctf events and/or be too busy in a ctf game.

IF we actually had some content and had a public ctf too, would people be too busy with ctf to utilize the content the dev team finally produced? Obviously theoretical, but people wouldn't easily put down CTF to spend time on other content.

An influx of noobs/idiots from other servers could easily kill some ctf games. CTF is only fun (for me at least) when everyone is trying their hardest and using intelligent tactics. I hate being handicapped by some idiot who doesn't know how to play. Obviously these games wouldn't count for anything, but I HATE to lose and hate to waste time in non-competitive games.

A few of my thoughts. Obviously ctf is widely considered the best (only) aspect of Classic, but we need to be very careful how we use it.

[MysticX2X]

TBH I don't think a public CTF would be beneficial to this server. Might just kill CTF in general unless you can sort of keep it timed distantly.

[laura]

mighty and i forgot who already tryed to do this and failed , making it is not easy.
but in my opinion , having a public ctf will just help people stop playing event and will end up killing that server for good

[laura]

classic already have enought problem to deal with , so please just dont add more.

[clayman]

Classic, once had so many things to do, now reduced to "that ctf server"

[MysticX2X]

Kevin was the one who attempted public CTF.

How does Mighty not remember? He helped Kevin with it for a few weeks.