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Stieffers · #1 07-28-2006

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Originally Posted by Right from the staff forums.

Yahoo and I were talking about this on Irc earlier. We were throwing ideas around and I stumbeled upon something that could work. Basically, there are 4 - 6 bases on a large scale map. Every team has one base to start out with. This is their home base. The game starts with a short build round. Then the entire rest of the game is combat. Once the combat phase begins, players go around capturing bases.

Once a base is captured a forcefield goes up around it. Inside this forcefield, everything acts as it would during a build phase. So when a player steps into this forcefield they drop all their weapons and turn into a build time builder. The forcefield goes away after five to ten minutes, and the base then becomes up for grabs again.

Scoring is based on how many bases a team controls. The team gains X number of points every minute for every base they control. The game ends when one team reaches the max score limit.

Players would be able to choose which base they wanted to spawn in. Of course, they could only spawn in bases their team controls. The maps would have to be fairly large scale for this to happen, and they would have to be designed with performance in mind. With maps this scale, things such as vehicles could be introduced... not that I like vehicles in SourceForts...

It may be because of the Heineken(s), or maybe because of that thread, but whatever the hell it is, here is some insight into the mod. If you complain I will be angry. If you are entRo. Period. No explanation needed.

Kylegar · #2 07-28-2006

a gamemode like that would be fucking sweet

entRo · #3 07-28-2006

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Originally Posted by Stieffers

It may be because of the Heineken(s), or maybe because of that thread, but whatever the hell it is, here is some insight into the mod. If you complain I will be angry. If you are entRo. Period. No explanation needed.

You wanna fight dude? Let's do this.

Stieffers · #4 07-28-2006

It was over before it started dude.

entRo · #5 07-28-2006

I wasn't ready. wtf

Anyway, I think this idea really depends on the map. The gamemode itself seems fine, but a bad map would ruin it, just as a bad map ruins CTF, so it's hard to comment.

#6 07-28-2006

in theory this sounds really fun
but in practice, it is too complex to work

entRo · #7 07-28-2006

I don't think so. It's much like the DoD capture-and-hold system, except that you can build forts. I think the time in which you have a force field up should be very short, maybe a minute, and there should be some way for the other team to bring forcefields down.

I think the biggest problem with this would be the max player count of 16.

Sonata Arctica · #8 07-28-2006

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Originally Posted by entRo

I wasn't ready. wtf

Anyway, I think this idea really depends on the map. The gamemode itself seems fine, but a bad map would ruin it, just as a bad map ruins CTF, so it's hard to comment.

CAPTAIN OBVIOUS TO THE RESCUE DUH DUH DUH

Anyways this gameplay sounds REALLY familiar. Empires mebe?

Plus 16 players is plenty. 8vs8 grabbing 4 bases is fine. It'll be mad crazy though

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It should work something like Empire's CTF game play.

EX: You (Blue team) stand around and wait for the capture bar to fill up. Then when the Red team tries to capture the base, there will be a "contesting bar". When the contesting bar fills up, every piece inside the base gets either:

A. Unfreezes (hahaa, that would be funny)
B. Every plate in the base changes color
C. Stays the same

The Red team may not contest the flag if there's still a Blue Team member on the base.

Another issue with this is block count. 50 blocks imo isn't enough for 4 bases. However this might bring some interesting ideas (paper weight bases?) Maybe you should have a seperate block count for each base.

Billeh · #9 07-28-2006

I just imagine a giant hexegon each corner up for grabs but maybe not drop weapons but weapons are unselectable if you drop them that means other people can pick them up

Kylegar · #10 07-28-2006

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Originally Posted by entRo

I think the biggest problem with this would be the max player count of 16.

COUGH :wink:

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