Enhancing Competitive Play

[Zeebu]

some people just dont want to play competitive... like javs that just like to kill things (blue or yellow, dont matter to them) and levs and stuff. i would vote to keep that restriction and maybe make it 1/4th the freq for the pure pub arenas... then let the people who dont like basing to go to the non pure pubs where you can go get shitfucked by levs all day anytime you venture near a wall... aka the base.

i pubbed (pure pub) a bit the other night and had an alright time except for the large amount of javs that were clueless. shark is really fun to play because there are no other sharks. if only i could rep friendly fired bombs... they always seem to be way better shots than the blue people.

[gdugwyler]

Since you mentioned levis, one thought on their present status ... at one point there were holes all over base with no plugs, and LTing was a good time, as people still based. Then plugs were placed outside to make the shots a bit more difficult. What ended up happening is that new shots were devised to replace them -- very few of the "terr goes top speed and levi fires" shots remaining, but still some interesting ones. Years ago as a newbie trencher I always enjoyed levis for a good solid bit to hunt. Perhaps it's just time that it got again a bit more difficult for the levi, forcing them to adapt continually?

Presently I'm working on a game called Distension. One of the differences between its map and pub has been a significantly-enlarged base, with an FR about twice as large. Being as there's more space, people are not necessarily needing to get up against the walls and be shitfucked as you so accurately put it. Combine an enlarged base with more changes made toward making LTing even more difficult, but not impossible, and it might be not unrealistic to do a smattering of basing in arenas where there are levis.

[Doc Flabby]

I would like to point out restricting jav numbers has had unintended consequences. After turning off the restrictions everyone is jav in pub now.

[winipcfg]

I would like to point out restricting jav numbers has had unintended consequences. After turning off the restrictions everyone is jav in pub now.

If everyone that was a Jav didn't blow monkey balls then this wouldn't be so bad.

Too bad nearly all pub javs just TK.

[Doc Flabby]

If everyone that was a Jav didn't blow monkey balls then this wouldn't be so bad.

Too bad nearly all pub javs just TK.

I was against the restrictions in the first place. all thats happened now is more people want to jav as its the "restricted" ship.

With that many javs in the flagroom its impossible not to teamkill.

[Nova Itachi]

hi moot

[H.M.S. Stargazer]

lol javs everywhere...

PS flabby what KINd of favour did rii as from you

[Pressure Drop]

i still think this was the wrong way to deal with to many javs and i still advocate that it should be tested raising the bty of javs up to say a figure like 9 to stop the instant attaching rocketing bombing in flag room fights rather than restrict the amount of javs.

That way you won't get ppl bitching cuase they can't jav and silly tks in critical flag room fights lessened and also you'll get more greens for your terrs.

[Kontrolz]

I think the jav restrictions worked wonders again for basing. I saw much more back and forth between the two frequencies controlling the flag room and a lot less team killing (and the fighting that follows after).

The only argument I've seen against the restrictions on the forums or in-game is:

all thats happened now is more people want to jav as its the "restricted" ship.

That wouldn't be a problem though if the jav restrictions were enabled constantly like the levi settings. I thought the point of this testing was to see if that should be done.

[Blueblaze]

Problem with limiting javs: No query list to get in a jav, if this was created, then you could severally lower the limit, and make people wait to get in a jav.