twsd

[Fooly Cooly]

ive created a squad called web-heads. i intend to experiment and see how much twsd can really be played. anyone who wants to have a fun time in this new venue, let me know.

[bounty]

Good Luck on your quest young jedi.

[Soilderz]

Yea have fun and good luck

[Shadowmere]

There'll be new map and settings and probably a new gamestyle for TWSD for next season. Should look forward to it.

[Fooly Cooly]

rockin twsd

cool, you couldn't possibly give me some clues as to the new layout could you? btw it's a good thing the map is changing, that thing is so disjointed

[Ignominy]

Reaver outlined the details for the changes here:

SD as it is now is a failure of a division. I think it's a great idea and has a lot of potential to be fun. I don't think it will spread zone activity thin, and I think if anything it might bring some new players/squads/competition to TWD.

It's obviously too late to try and get it in this year's TWL, but it's not too late to make it playable.

SD doesn't get played mostly because of two reasons:

1) Random damage
2) Bad map

Though I don't think I should need to, I will explain why: In a giant map where the spawn area is equal to ANYWHERE on the map, a game that requires lots of teaming is left more up to luck. Since random damage makes it somewhat more up to luck whether you live or die, and then it's up to luck as to whether you can get to your team or not, so EVERYONE HATES IT.

There is a perfectly decent sd map sitting now, on the TW server, under ?go twsdx. I had a friend from dev check it and it doesn't have random damage (BulletDamageLevel=520 ExactDamage=1 [exactdamage = Min/Max 0:1:If damage is to be random or not (1=exact, 0=random)]). Even if you don't think this map is perfect, it's still better than the hardly ususable behemoth that is up right now.

The other issues (e.g. changing team deaths, which personally I think should stay the same) can be dealt with later, right now it just needs those two things fixed and it will at least be playable. And perhaps, with this step in the right direction, more interest can be gathered, the rest of it can be fine-tuned, and we can have a TWLS next year.

My understanding is that this will take three seconds to change. I know you are busy with TWL, but not everyone is working on that. I'd like to see this new map and no random damage at least tested. All you have to do is put in the maps and change the bots' !warpto commands, right?

RiiStar, Maverick, Dameon Angell, Sertifi, and a few others escaping my memory right now have been helping with this. We've been working on TWSD behind the scenes for quite awhile now, it's only recently (within the past 2 weeks) fell on the back burner, so to speak, because TWL is coming up. I want to launch the new TWSD when TWL is over with the new settings we've been discussing because I have high hopes for TWSD, with the new settings/map, but I want to make sure that it's given time and attention, if it were to be released right now I'm not sure that it would considering TWL is starting so soon. Additionally, people that were helping with map settings or coding the bot are busy with TWL or other things that need to be fixed asap.

As of right now, the things we're hoping to have implemented in the final version are this:

• 1 non-stationary (moves with whomever picked it up first) flag
• transferable flag upon-death
• points awarded for the team holding the flag
• more than normal amount of points awarded per kill by the flag carrier
• normal points awarded per kill by non-flag carrier
• non-random damage
• Implementation of Brick's into the game play allowing for temporary fortified movable bases

The brick's will be balanced somehow, we'll either allow for many bricks per game with a very short life, or 1 brick per game with a long life. Some of the changes are more drastic than what most people expected but we've discussed all of the new elements extensively and believe at the very least that it deserves a chance. If it doesn't work out, we'll switch back to a more conservative change with a nice new map, non-random damage and pretty much the same TWSD. As always, if you have suggestions feel free to let us know, though we are planning to at least give the above mentioned settings a try.

[Fooly Cooly]

sounds very interesting. i like the idea of bricks a lot. bricks in a wide open arena would involve a lot of teamwork and training in an area that hasn't been done a lot in this zone

[Ward]

Not that it's ever going to be made, but wouldn't it be fun if the map for TWSD was randomly generated before every SD match? I.e. every SD match would be played on a new map. The spider division would just be right for it.. well.. just a thought, maybe I'll be the one to accomplish it one day :fear:

[Doc Flabby]

Not that it's ever going to be made, but wouldn't it be fun if the map for TWSD was randomly generated before every SD match? I.e. every SD match would be played on a new map. The spider division would just be right for it.. well.. just a thought, maybe I'll be the one to accomplish it one day :fear:

No one has coded it, but interestingly idea that is technically possible. Im not sure if it would be possible with subgame, but it defiantly could be done in as3. As i have seen in some as3 zones you can fly to a warp point in one arena and it takes you to a different arena automatically. Also you can recycle an arena in as3 without people being kicked out of it, it auto reloads the arena.

[RiiStar]

cool, you couldn't possibly give me some clues as to the new layout could you? btw it's a good thing the map is changing, that thing is so disjointed

?go twsdx