Distension

[RageRitual]

For those that want to know more information about current pub event Distension, there is a website link that has some very basic leaderboards and information on the ships:

(I did not make this, just linking it)

https://trenchwars.org/distension/

UPGRADES:

While playing you will earn upgrade points by killing other players or winning rounds. You can use them to upgrade your ship, most of them suck ass when you first start out. Pm the DBot with !a to see a list of upgrades, how much they cost and what rank requirements they may have. Then pm DBot with !u followed by the upgrade number to upgrade. I would suggest for most upgrading THR (thrust) and SPD (speed) first for more mobility. You can also do !ui # to see an explanation on what an upgrade does.

[Duster8]

Make it an arena. Don't delete pub. When will Pub be back?

[RageRitual]

Make it an arena. Don't delete pub. When will Pub be back?

I am not currently staff, that will be up to SpookedOne . I highly doubt this is replacing pub, but it is something different for awhile for us to do while it is currently off-season from major events. (DT/TWL, etc)

[Duster8]

It has literally replaced pub and it would be nice if spooked could at least give us a timeline for when pub will be back.

[damageinc86]

It has literally replaced pub and it would be nice if spooked could at least give us a timeline for when pub will be back.

Well Devastation Trench is still there lol.

[Duster8]

Distension only really works with at least 8 people minimum and they have to be interested in playing their part. They also have to be willing to learn a new game. It's VERY rare for pub to have that many people, not to mention that many willing to learn and play at the "busy" times. At least in pub we could still play a decent game with like 4 people. Removing pub for this and not just making it an arena is just moronic. And how hard is it to make a poll and ask the players what they want before making such a big change??

[Roger Rabbit]

What the shit is this n word

later

[KrynetiX]

Distension has always been popular. When Left_Eye (we should probably never invoke that name) used to host it constantly, pub was empty. I always took a firm stance that it should not be hosted 10 times a day (it literally was) and should not replace pub (people were considering it). That being said, I think spook just threw it up for a bit to mix things up - and should be restoring pub soon. Ya'll had your fun. You can continue to have unlimited distension fun ...in distension. My 33 cents.

[Dameon Angell]

As someone who was yelled at for hosting Distension too much. This has been 20 years in the making

[Lupin]

It's pretty fun leveling your ship, and it has brought some larger pub games than we've had for most of this year. Day 1 we had a 11v11 I believe, though it has tapered since then.

At level 20, the javelin is still not as fun as the original jav in TW to me. I feel like I'm leveling up just to get my jav back.

Allowing teams to shuffle or disabling freq. lock would be nice, as frequency 1 has consistently lost the majority of flag games up to this point.

In conclusion it's a fun short-time experiment. I'll level a few more ships to 20.

[Duster8]

I see the potential of it. It would be a nice option, but that's not my point at all. TW is basically empty for the majority any 24 hr period, and at least with pub you can still play around with one or a few people. As it is now, there is no way to play and level up your ship most of the time... TW is effectively dead, other than a few evening hours at the moment. It used to be you'd catch random games throughout the day. With the bots you could make a fun flag game with 2-3 people even.

[Lupin]

Oh yeah that reminds me I forgot the biggest thing - the flag game never restarts once bot shuts it down due to low population. We rely on available staff to restart it when there's players around which effectively means there is no flag game for several hours, leaving only the most degen fucks like me and Hossa_GSP to sit around scoring ball goals for points.

[RageRitual]

I did see 14x14 at one point, but there has been a few issues killing activity with it:

1) DT ending this weekend, zone will die while people take a break, next DT in about 2 months.

2) flag game doesn't auto-start

3) quite often games get 8v4, 7v2 10v4 etc, bot doesn't auto-balance.

4) !warp bug

[damageinc86]

With the bots you could make a fun flag game with 2-3 people even.

yeah and you can still have a better, longer, stronger, harder battle with 2-3 people in devastation trench. seeing as how there are full teams running 24/7 still.

TW was only really good for the occasional elim, and very occasional basing. Distention really pushed it over the edge. It isn't really that fun. Held back by the framework of the game of course, because if it was more automatic and streamlined, it could be a fun mode. But not right now. Just doesn't really work. Like lupin said, you sit there and try to upgrade just to get a ship that still isn't even what it was as a standard before lol.

I can't wait until Subspace Reticulum can integrate legacy settings. woooooo boy, gonna be interesting.

[Viruk]

Distension was the thing I found the most fun in TW ever. However the last series of Distension became less interesting to me. Without that initial excitement, a large bunch of keen players, set times to turn up for a game, the novelty of leveling your ships soon became as much of a grind as a pleasure. And now with no pub, there is nothing else to do most of the time.

I'm giving this series of Distension a miss. Deva trench lets me hone my skills outside of TW but the bots aren't very interesting opponents and I rarely see more than 2 humans playing there so I won't be playing SS much at the moment.

Bring back pub!
Sack the Spooked!