I had a bit of an odd fort idea brewing today, and I thought I'd try it out. I don't know how well this would work in a game (probably pretty poorly), but I thought I'd try it to see how easy it would be to build. Basically, instead of having a crawl-tunnel or any other standard type of entrance, I thought it would be cool to try something unique. The basic idea is that they have to do a series of sprint-jumps to get to the flag.

A full double-wall covers the entire width of the base. There's no way in this way.... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...kywalk0010.jpg
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But if they can make the following jumps, they can get in. There are 3 jumps to make, and they can't be made by a simple jump. You MUST sprint & jump. To keep it from being totally impossible, I built a "net" to catch them if they miss the jump.
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What do you guys think? Could it POSSIBLY work & be fun in a real game? I definately think it would be tough to balance it from being too easy, or too hard. My guess is that it wouldn't work but it would be fun to try it out.

I think it's kindda cool. It will be difficult to the enemies to enter to your fort without been noticed before. But if you have the flag, running from the enemies, you will be an easy target. It deppends if you do it quickly or not.

The guy with the flag will never make it through that. The thing is, between being shot and (and bumped) coupled with the nervous excitement that causes people to miss, the capper would never get inside alive. Good idea, though. I think that if each jump was a little harder and the overall length was shorter, it might be more effective. If I were you, I'd make it so that the only class that can make the jumps are engineers and scouts (engineers and scouts have same max sprint). That will keep nasty soldiers and rocketeers out. Also, it is pretty easy to rocket jump horizontal 2x3s...

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Back in 191 when forts all were good (I think we might be on the brink of the return- hurrah) it was very common to have an inpenetrable fort with a few blocks strewn around frozen in the air. Basically the enemy just ignored the puzzle trickjump entrances (because they were pratically impossible during combat and 90% of normal players couldn't even do them during build) and tried to get into the base via other means. Really the entrances were just a way to say "hey we built an entrance! so don't complain"

So rude short comment: been there done that, but follow with a nice one: glad to see a new round of re-innovation, though. Yay!

you didnt block the sides of the fort correctly.

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personally, I don't think this fort will work. No fort is complete without death wedges


but seriously, its not good to have to do hard jumps INTO the flag D unless you block off enemy fire from outside.

Ack... you're right!

Oh well, I was mostly concentrating on making the jump distances right, since everyone already knows how to build a wall. (except for me apparently )

Also, this setup would be too hard to cap the flag with. The only real way around that would be to have a flag-drop, but I don't know if that's considered cheating or not.

As I kind of figured while building it... this idea won't really work.

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I rofl'd.

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