Question Time

[Mootland Farmer]

I want to know what you guys think of the bounty/prize rewards given by RoboBoy/Girl when a team holds flag for 3 minutes in either Public. Is it a useful prize? Could there be something better? Do you like toast? Let me know if there should be any modification to those bots to enhance the play in Publics. Cheers.

[JabJabJab]

needs more vodka

[stark]

Useful for levs on pub freqs wanting to green

[coupe]

i think it's useful

[Indirect-1]

I have had some ideas about this actually. I am very glad that you brought this up. I think that the prize should be bigger, maybe offer more points, what does bounty do for you? Yes, I do indeed like toast! Maybe they should give the bigger bonus to the MVP's or Team Leaders. Also, I think that walls would be a good thing to add into the game. Given only to a terrier Team Leader. This, I think, will encourage people to play as a terrier, which in turn, makes more people fight for the flag room. I had some more ideas, but I dont remember them, ill post them later.:fear:

[Kontrolz]

Bounty is an absolutely pointless prize. The prize should be prox, or decoys or something fun. A reason to base and try to win.

If prox or decoys sounds like too much to be giving away every win for the mvps then have the bot keep track of how many wins someone has. Maybe every 10 mvp wins you get prox and you can choose to buy it whenever you want, once.

I think the main thing trench wars really misses out on is the prize system in publics. The prize/buy system in subspace is one of the more fun things about the game. It's a shame that trench wars has completely tossed it out of publics.

It would be interesting and fun to have a system that the bot runs. Maybe every mvp win is worth however many credits. Every teamleader win is worth another amount. It costs a certain amount of credits to buy different prizes. I know that's asking a lot but wouldn't it be worth it?

[bounty]

Bounty as a prize is not pontless to a levi. But a decoy would be cool also.

[Indirect-1]

bounty is pointless. Think about it, you have 15 bty as a Levi. Then BOOM you get +30 bty! Congrats, you have 45 bty and can now attach! Then the next thing you know, you see a little red number counting down.....OR you attach! and then still.....see....that little red 3.....and when it dwindles down to 0. You start all the way over...with nothing...except 3 bty. SO. Bty/Bounty = pointless:fear:

[CaptainPoopface]

Suggestion 1:
Give the MVPs all the following greens: decoy, 3 repels, 3 shrap greens, portal, burst, xradar, multifire, full charge, rocket, antiwarp. So it gives everyone a refill and some bonus. The ship settings will disregard the greens that aren't applicable to the ship type.

Suggestion 2:
Give 1 decoy. Keep the bounty bonus, since it gives shrap to sharks and javs, and may give the terrier a portal and burst.

Suggestion 3:
I have mixed feelings about Kontrolz's idea for a credit system or prize in reserve. On the one hand, it's a cool idea to be able to get prox once in awhile, but then I remember the pub roofing jav trash. I'd say it's better to simply make prox available to buy (for javs and sharks only!) at a very high price (100,000 points), and simply give MVPs a big point bonus. Then they can go on their own shopping spree in any ship at any time before a score reset.

Before you implement any changes, discard the current MVP award criteria. Strictly remaining in one ship type is not inherently valuable. Give it to the person on the winning team with the most enemy terrier kills, the most total kills for the round, the most flag claims, and for terriers only, the longest time spent in base. Anyone with more than 3 teamkills in a round should be disqualified from MVP.

[phata$$]

bounty is pointless. Think about it, you have 15 bty as a Levi. Then BOOM you get +30 bty! Congrats, you have 45 bty and can now attach! Then the next thing you know, you see a little red number counting down.....OR you attach! and then still.....see....that little red 3.....and when it dwindles down to 0. You start all the way over...with nothing...except 3 bty. SO. Bty/Bounty = pointless:fear:

What little red number are you talking about? Why is it counting down to 0? How do you start all over with 3 bounty? What the fuck are you talking about? Explain please. Just a bit clearer.

I felt that bounty was just kind of a personal record-type thing. Like I every time I get bored and pub, I always take into account of the best bounty I get that day and try to beat it. Kind of like beating your high score in a video game. Other than that and the ability to levterr quicker, bounty is pretty useless.

[Adman]

give me one thor.

that is all.

[Jason]

i like kontrolz's idea of putting the ?buy system to better use. also agree with the general consensus on bounty. it's useless.

the mvp system is broken. as captainpoopface said, sometimes switching from ship to ship is helpful to the team. you could be a spid one minute, and then switch to shark for a few to help break into fr, and then back to spid. you can contribute quite a bit with ship hopping.

don't really like the idea of a built-in automatic prizing system involving the bot. any prizes should have to be bought. you establish a chain of: do well fighting for the flag ---> earn a reward ---> spend your reward to enhance your basing experience. the only thing i would consider for the bot to do is an across-the-board *prize to mvps and team leaders for replenishment purposes, as poopface described.

so to recap:

- fix mvp system
- have bot *prize all mvps and team leaders so as to replenish them (as far as bursts, portals, rockets, reps, etc)
- award points to all mvps and team leaders

one last thing, with the points awards, you could work in something like what kontrolz mentioned as far as keeping track of how many games a player is mvp. and you could stack the awards accordingly. so say i'm playing for five rounds in a row. and i mvp three rounds. the first round i get x amount of points, then next round i get x amount times times two, and the third round x amount times three. i'd say the bot should only keep track of the number of times you mvp in a given session. otherwise, you've gotta bring a database into the mix to track players coming and going. and maybe, just maybe if you're awesome enough to establish an mvp streak of, oh say, somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 mvps in a single session, i'd give that player a thor.

[Jason]

oh wait, just thought of something else.

in the vein of mvp streaks, maybe instead of the thor, we could work out something with lvz. the little spinning shield is nice and all, but it's stale. i'm not sure about the current capabilities of twcore, but if it can turn on lvz and have that lvz follow a given player, it'd be pretty sweet to have some kind of visual indicator awarded to players that consistently kick ass.

maybe just something as simple as turning an mvp's ship gold for the duration of the following round, and if you consistently mvp, maybe you could slap some sort of little banner-sized "MVP" graphic next to a player's ship.

people tend to eat that kind of thing up.

[Noah]

Thank you for bringing this up Mootland.

Please allow us to change ships without resetting the reward. I don't want to lose my MVP after 20 minutes just because our shark left. We shouldn't discourage changing around ships in a pub!

Remember that you do get more points when you have higher bounty, and after a long game you'll be up at 200+. That should give you some more points as long as you can keep alive. You kinda have to fight for your reward.

I agree with the others points of Jason too. Give the MVPs everything they need of greens.

[Indirect-1]

What little red number are you talking about? Why is it counting down to 0? How do you start all over with 3 bounty? What the fuck are you talking about? Explain please. Just a bit clearer.

The little read 3 that counts down to 0 when you die......have you never died before or were you to busy typing some crap like "nice eat" or "stray" haha jk.:fear: