Changes in Pub

[Vehicle]

Weasels:

I understand that small weasels kind of killed constructive semi-competitive basing games. But by making them big and pretty much reverting back to the original weasel settings, upper staff should realize that this is a huge nerf of the ship. I think that changing it back to the normal size is a perfectly fine thing to do but I feel that it should come with some sort of upgrade to make the ship more viable. Keep in mind the reason the ship was changed in the first place was because no one played it and it was pretty useless.

My suggestion:
Give the ship some extra rotation speed and maxspeed
Make the effect of stealth on recharge rate effectively 0

Result:
A semi-nimble ship that is undetectable by radar (because stealth is free) and has the ability to cloak but is limited by it's bullet speed and ability to thrust.

(If you want to make cloak a truly viable ship enable it to thrust and speed fire like the mini-weasel)

[AceHac]{er]

Can I get an email when pub goes back to normal - these new changes SUCK!

[fiS]

Edited the first post due to recent change

[Tone]

You need to change these settings to half-time settings instead of an all-time new trial... like thusdays to sundays; because you are letting down people like Retroaction, yo daddy biatch, grand daddy, and 25 other levi's. its a lot of people you are letting down by making it full-time trial instead of half time settings for No big bomb pubbing.

ScreenName: yo daddy biatch is not going to be happy.

[Wazzaaa.nl]

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Nice changes in pub btw, gj fishstick

[fiS]

It would only be fair to give the Levs 1 starting repel (and a port?) and the ability to !buy anywhere back imo.

EDIT:
This is what will happen. Levs will get 1 repel back, everytime they die. This is also going to be !buyable anywhere.

[Demonic]

Let me be the first to say that I like the Weasle back to its original form.....that way basing games are actually enjoyable without a teeny x rocketing in and grabbing flag....

Levi is OK, but I think it should spawn with atleast a rep or two..maybe a port....just my opinion......

I tried with a repel, and with its current speed it could wipe a lot of base out, that wasn't the point of it, the EMP weakens base for spiders to kill etc, altho it still can kill a lot as shown by the 2 base levs who got most kills in the last 2 rounds.

[Spock!]

Let me be the first to say that I like the Weasle back to its original form.....that way basing games are actually enjoyable without a teeny x rocketing in and grabbing flag....

Levi is OK, but I think it should spawn with atleast a rep or two..maybe a port....just my opinion......

[Demonic]

Hi brave warriors of the Trench!

We have tweaked the Public Arena a bit to make it an overall more enjoyable experience for everyone. We are giving all these changes a sort of test period to see if they are generally appreciated or if the old ones were better. Feel free to comment with your opinion.

1. Weasels
Weasels have been considered too overpowered. They are regular ship size again. Due to them being more vulnerable now, they got back the ability to be fully invisible without it draining energy. However, the energy recharge while being fully invisible is slow. They will start off with a Repel and a Rocket to be able to defend themselves. Most likely they will re-gain their ability to !buy repels, too.

2. Leviathans
With the Levi change we have tried to give them more mobilitiy but we have nerfed their ability to whipe out the entirel flagroom at once. They are now faster and have EMP-Bombs but the radius of the bomb impact and the bomb damage have been reduced to make LevTerring harder and giving it less impact to good base games. The current setting should still be nice for LevTerring and a good compromise. Only time and testing this will show how it is.

3. Lag Limits
Pub also has latency limits now. The lag limits of course are not as tight as in TWD because pub should be playable for everyone -- and enjoyable. This being the main reason for us to introduce these, here they are. You should actually not experience any problems at all. If you have problems playing, please PM or ?message me.


Feedback please.

Pfft take all the credit for my lev design why don't ya fis :P Ofc unless ppl don't like it, then now im gonna say its yours!!!! As fis said however, give the settings a go guys and put feedback here.

[fiS]

Hi brave warriors of the Trench!

We have tweaked the Public Arena a bit to make it an overall more enjoyable experience for everyone. We are giving all these changes a sort of test period to see if they are generally appreciated or if the old ones were better. Feel free to comment with your opinion.

1. Weasels
Weasels have been considered too overpowered. They are regular ship size again. Due to them being more vulnerable now, they got back the ability to be fully invisible without it draining energy. However, the energy recharge while being fully invisible is slow. They will start off with a Repel and a Rocket to be able to defend themselves. Most likely they will re-gain their ability to !buy repels, too.

2. Leviathans
With the Levi change we have tried to give them more mobilitiy but we have nerfed their ability to whipe out the entirel flagroom at once. They are now faster and have EMP-Bombs but the radius of the bomb impact and the bomb damage have been reduced to make LevTerring harder and giving it less impact to good base games. The current setting should still be nice for LevTerring and a good compromise. Only time and testing this will show how it is.

EDIT:
Due to some people claiming they were too weak, we (actually Demonic, giving credits now!) tweaked them further. They now have a brick, repel and rocket and L3 bullets so that they can protect themselves. They will be restricted from !buy though, except when in safe

3. Lag Limits
Pub also has latency limits now. The lag limits of course are not as tight as in TWD because pub should be playable for everyone -- and enjoyable. This being the main reason for us to introduce these, here they are. You should actually not experience any problems at all. If you have problems playing, please PM or ?message me.

4. Pubbucks
We also have slightly adjusted some rewards, !buy delays and the prize you get for killing a LevTerr. That means:
The price for Repel and Rocket are now $100; the Most Terrier Kills reward has been upped a bit; for killing a LevTerr you will get "$100+Lev Bounty x3"; the "cooldown" on most of the items is now 30 seconds to reduce the "!buy a win" factor.

5. Warp
Also, to encourage basing more, !warp will be toggled ON by default.

Feedback please.