Next Staff Meeting: Sunday, Sept 10

[Kim]

Staff will be holding a meeting midday this coming Sunday. Here are some issues that will be discussed:

Public related:
(Ideas taken from the public)
- Reverting the lancaster back to its original settings
- Weasels should fire Lvl 2 bullets, and have no energy decrease while cloaked
- We will try to adopt new pub map replacements with existing basing maps that we have for the weekend ONLY
- Changing the leviathan to being a quicker moving ship, that shoots emp bombs in a radius similar to that of a javelin, does only about 500 damage or so

There will also be some staff management and levels discussed, but this cannot be disclosed at this time.

Any decisions will be posted in a thread here you can discuss.
Any additional ideas that elaborate on any of these points may be discussed here as well. If you have anything you'd like a staff member to bring up during a meeting, feel free to message any staff member you wish, and they may choose to bring it up to the rest of the staff members if it is reasonable.

[Sumpson]

Don't change any of the shipsettings, we get online because we like them. Don't ruin my game please.

[Ardo]

- Weasels should fire Lvl 2 bullets, and have no energy decrease while cloaked

LIES...
I like these weasels, whole cloaking is dumb, they are good fighter ships. They could even take more energy while cloaked, I wouldn't care. I can kill a lot with them even without using cloak.

- Changing the leviathan to being a quicker moving ship, that shoots emp bombs in a radius similar to that of a javelin, does only about 500 damage or so

So we won't have level 3 bombs which kill everything? That sucks. Levs are differen't from other ships, and thats why they are cool B).

[Barton]

Don't change any of the shipsettings, we get online because we like them. Don't ruin my game please.

just make the weasel & lanc like 4 yrs ago & leave the rest like it is

[ikpt]

Pub needs a new map period, not just on weekends. Unless I misunderstood and you meant the testing for a new pub map would only take place on weekends until a permanent replacement is found. If I misunderstood, ignore this post. If I didn't, do NOT ignore this post. -_-

[Ignominy]

Old lancs were completely useless PLEASE don't change them back.

Taking away lting will destroy part of the tw community (which is, granted, a part that most anyone reading this left long ago... but still a part). Some people, that's all they do anymore, lt with friends.

[NINE@]

hey its me THE 9TH SHIP

Why do i feel i inspired this thread kim? :P

Well the ideas i took and put into that list i gave you where all quite intresting and worth a look.

Twars definitly needs something to shake it up and fast!, ZH, ER & the rest of staff do a good job and we have the players so the only thing it can be is the ships. The game certainly isnt as enjoyable as it was a few years ago

That's why i took Pure_Lucks idea of gettin a public view on things and handed them into the staff. Who knows better than the public right?

[Kuukunen]

My oppinion on those proposals:
-New lanc is better than old, it was completely useless. It's completely possible to have 6 balanced basing ships, (other than terr and shark) but with these settings, spids are the only ones in real games. (Sometimes they get a jav if they have someone with a good lag.) This new lanc is at least a bit more usable.
-SOMETHING needs to be done to weasels, I think taking cloak away would greatly reduce the annoyance of them. They're just overpowered, 1v1 only another weasel can beat a weasel.
-New pub map... Depends on what kind of map, naturally.
-The current lev is useless for everything else except maybe ruining other people's fun. Please try to find good settings for it.

[Superted]

- Weasels should fire Lvl 2 bullets, and have no energy decrease while cloaked
- We will try to adopt new pub map replacements with existing basing maps that we have for the weekend ONLY
- Changing the leviathan to being a quicker moving ship, that shoots emp bombs in a radius similar to that of a javelin, does only about 500 damage or so

I agree with all of these points, but leave lanc as it is.

[NINE@]

i dnt think u cud take cloak away from weasel.. its name "weasel" shows it was ment to annoy you!

[freddie]

Emp bombs for lev.

[Hero*]

Make weasel back in the old days. Make it so it cant fit into very small places and when it cloaks it doesn't lose energy.
Lance is pretty chillin either way you go
pub map will really take major planning and such so that it isn't too easy to get into base, not so cramped and not so open. I hope you guys test out a few maps for pub.

[Doc Flabby]

SAVE THE LEVI from all these LEVI haters !!!! The levi is what makes this zone different and fun.

[crazi]

Public related:
(Ideas taken from the public)
- Reverting the lancaster back to its original settings

NO, Dock spent an entire month making sure that it was balanced. Don't touch it. There was a change for a reason... Everyone is just a whiny pos.

- Weasels should fire Lvl 2 bullets, and have no energy decrease while cloaked

Level 2 bullets are hot, but they should still have energy decrease while cloaked AND stealthed.

- We will try to adopt new pub map replacements with existing basing maps that we have for the weekend ONLY

NO! Why do you think weekends are useless?? Some people only play TW on the weekends. I think we should throw this new pub map replacement sometime during wednesday-thursday night where less people are affected. We shouldn't try to drop something that might make newbies not want to play during prime time. If this is test lab stuff, let's do it during test lab hours!

- Changing the leviathan to being a quicker moving ship, that shoots emp bombs in a radius similar to that of a javelin, does only about 500 damage or so

I agree with making the radius smaller. But not of a javelin!!, it should be at least double the jav, and entirely covering the base with emp is hot. Also, please change levi settings back to normal instead of this semi fast ship. Nothing was wrong with the levi 4 years ago.

If we want to keep the old levi, just make the attach bounty around 50. You'll see alot less.

[freddie]

Just re-make the weasel since people are so touchy about levs. Normal size,
L2 emp bombs same radius as jav but no bounce,dual barrel reds which shoots faster than lanc but slower than spid,no rep nor rocket, about same speed/rotating what spid has.