New Pub Idea -

[kthx]

What if instead of changing all publics to one uniform setting, making publics 1-15 with the new settings and publics 16-30 with the old settings, that way players would get to decide whether they wanted regular cloakers and levi's with repels, or small cloakers and levi's with rockets. Give players a choice. TW is a Democrocy ;P - Wark <er>

[Mobey]

You care about pubbers dont you
Nice idea though

[Bailey of Paladen]

Meh I dont know sounds too complicated.

The lil newbs would get confused.

Then the <ZH>'s would be inundated with ?help calls, and im not sure stalfos could answer them....

Why doesnt anyone think of the poor little newbs

[Verthanthi]

Can't be done without a bot. If someone is up to coding it, I guess that's fine.

[za gophar]

sounds fine to me. as long as the settings are pure basing and all.. no cloaks or levs at all would be nice.

[WiseCherub]

Great idea Wark, I agree. But can it be done?

In a way it might be a vote against/for ship changes.

I admit, I haven't play with the new settings and will investigate it.

For example, I hated the Easter map at first, but later feel in love with it.

I just dont like that 1 tile weasel size.

Is it possible to have a 1 tile map element (weasel detector)
in base area. So atleast you have an idea a weasel is lurking in base? Like this 1 tile detector would change color for 1-3minutes, if a weasel passes thru.

Also maybe have a per FREQ weasel limit?

[high420times337]

wark i like the idea. an if tw is supposed to be a democracy then how come players werent allowed to vote on the changes to begin with> after all the players are the ones who have to live with the changes.

[Mobey]

High420 its not a lifestyle... its a game you dont "live with it"
We usually just ?go base when theres enough people to play
Unless u think as a game as a lifestyle?

[sTuPiD-gErBiL]

Originally posted by Cherubim
Is it possible to have a (weasel detector)
in base area. So atleast you have an idea a weasel is lurking in base?

it's called xradar, foo.

[Z*E*R*0]

That sounds like a good idea wark, maybe you can convince some upper staff of the idea $

[Rudy]

Having half pubs with and half without can't work without some kind of divine intervention. Those who have played in pubs long enough would know that being in, say, pub21, may become pub16 once a few others are abondoned.

The point I'm trying to make is that the pub numbers can change while you are in them. Thus meaning if your idea was used, the setting in one particular pub would have to change on the fly.

Also, pubs do have a population limit of 35. I will find it no coincidence that all the pubs with a particular setting will max out leaving a lot of distressed players stranded elsewhere, possibly crying their little hearts out.

Though it was a good idea. Not wholly original, but good nevertheless.

[Malladrin]

I believe the pubs are a mirror of each other or something like that... so you can't have different settings in different pubs (without a bot that is).

[Kuukunen]

I've seen lots of suggestions like this, so I had to comment. Having some pubs with other settings and some with other isn't possible, even with a bot. The settings are all from the same file, and bot can't change them without changing settings in all of the pubs. Bot CAN do something, eg it can remove priv freqs, by *setfreqqing everyone on a privfreq. It can prevent levs from attaching (oh, I'd like to see this so much) by eg setting their ship to wb everytime they notice lev attach. All bots can do are the things a sysop can do with their commands. http://www.shanky.com/server/ for more information of how ss works.

And as Rydy said, pubs tend to change their name, which would at least prevent any clear lines between the pubs with bots and the pubs without bots. Only perfect solution I see to this would be changing the server software. Other solution would be if the bot would inform everyone entering the arena what kind of arena it is. This would require co-operation from bots. If there is eg. 8 bots, sometimes the pubs can decrese to 8 pubs, all having a bot. I'm not completely sure, but maybe if there would be 20 bots, one for each arena, it could work. They could also do some other things, eg. keeping track of the owners of a priv freq and allowing him to kick people of his freq, like in some other zones.

[DEFCON1]

New Settings...

I think the cloakers should be changed. Now that they are 1 tile in size, more people are using them, sneaking into the flag room, etc. Cloakers, in such quantities, are just pissing people off. I think people will get fed up quickly with them; wanting to just ESC+Q the game. If you're gonna leave the cloaker the way it is now, I would suggest giving X-Radar to ALL the ships.

My Suggestion:

REMOVE THE CLOAKER - make the ship a new non-cloaking ship, perhaps with anti-warp - that would help alleviate some of those LT's warping around and away from legit base defenders.

That's my $0.02 worth.

// DEFCON1

[Dameon Angell]

OOOhhh. For each public room, there is a different color for the base or a new tileset.