Pure Basing/Regular Pub Hybrid Map/Concept Proposal

[ogron]

Hey,
I love basing, and I can appreciate the effort to make room for everyone in only 1 pub affecting the map design, but I really feel like the current map leaves a lot to be desired. You can't base in it, the flag room is poorly designed and there's way too many wbs and javs to make it even playable, and it doesn't teach people how to base, making for very difficult transition to joining a squad and getting into TWBD, in a league that is already the most esoteric and difficult to access, despite efforts by Royst in the forms of Tenure and several other squads... which have all dissolved after time. Not to mention the TW population seems to be waning.

While my preference, despite my love for LT'ing, wb'ing, accruing bounty and messing around, would be to gut the whole map and just replace pub with a pure basing-only design, I thought maybe someone could come up with a concept that accomodates both, but leaning more heavily towards pure basing, which I think is the most fun anyway, and a great way to learn and get involved in leagues such as TWBD, TWLB, TWDTB, etc.

You could argue it would just split the people playing in two and make both worse, but I really think people exposed to real basing action will take to it and realize how amazing it can be and that, while just messing around or 7 javs in FR can be fun, this is far more rewarding and engaging, and there's still plenty of room for creativity and messing around in a ?go base style pubbing action.

Thoughts?

[ogron]

Also, emphasis on basing gives new players entering the game some form of direction and immediate access to the potential of the game. Hopping in a spider and firing away in a confined area is alot easier and more rewarding than trying to fly around in a wb getting dominated by veterans in spawn. you get the immediate feedback of multiple kills and team effort and success.

the zoners could spam 5-minute youtube guides and links to the 3 main basing ships. i made some spidering guides way back before i even understood the finer points to help out guys on paladen just starting, could have stuff like this on top of youtube vids:

[Jones]

i think 'roof' and 'flagroom' should switch places

[Endangered]

I really like this as a basic idea, to expand on it;

Why not limit the pure basing to 8 v 8, when a spot becomes available anyone may fill it by simply joining that frequency. 10 minute games as in ?go base. Point reward system. Limit terr and sharks to 1 and 2 per freq. But how would you prevent a newb getting in shark and mining like a retard? Hours played - I know people with 1000s hours who can't shark. Vote - becomes more like ?go base. Not really sure of a solution.

Overall love the idea, I think this is the way TW should be going, consolidating arenas into one.

[Jerome Scuggs]

fukin implement pure pub when freqs become like 6v6, they rly kill those late night basing games that flare up and then die when sum1 levs in base

[Spock!]

Do it.

[ogron]

yeah endangered i actually wrote down exactly what you wrote in your post other day on paper haha

like when pub bot used to set you to warp in unless you type !warp to bot, so when you get into pub you're queued so the second 12 people are queued it starts a basing game up to 8v8 (min 6v6) in the locked-off basing area, so freq 0 and 1 remain free to regular pubbing, business as usual until 12 are queued then 10 minute game, limited to 1 terr and 2 sharks, and you can buy specials with pub bux and, as incentive to newbs, say it offers like 2x as much pub bux than regular basing, pub bux for win, MVP, most kills, most teks, least deaths, highest RPD, etc.

i think it would be easy to implement and do. someone with a basing ranking (that ?go base already has and tracks) that proves they have experience -- and just give it randomly to one of the three highest rated players who !caps to bot within 30 seconds) so a mod doenst have to come every friggin' time to cap ppl, which i imagine is annoying for them.

think this would be a huge boon to subspace and basing.

[WillBy]

As long as im free to tabarsmash all who oppose me...