Cloakers. What is the problem?

[inaphyt]

Here's an idea for the cloaker, give it a really really fast bullet like a warbird but make it's range incredibly small like 3-4 ship lengths, lancs will still dominate it, terrs will have to be a bit more careful but should still win fairly easily, it can assassinate far easier and will be more useful in mid base. Thoughts?

[roxxkatt]

unfortunately not possible due to bullet settings

[KrynetiX]

I am considering removing !buy altogether. I'd like to return to a point in time that pub was FUN. It has changed quite a bit with the addition of pubbux and !buy.

To quote myself from another topic:

I personally don't care for the !buy system, and I'm considering getting rid of it. There are a few options:

1. Get rid of !buy/money completely. The game was just as fun before money.

2. Get rid of !buying items (antiwarp, brick, repel, portal, etc, all of them) and just leave the specials (flagsaver, strikebase, epidemic, etc). Along with a global reset on money (start everyone off at $0). People will still enjoy dueling for money and buying Specials.

3. Leave the !buy system generally as-is, but with a lot more restrictions on which ships can !buy what. For example, don't allow any ship (except Shark) to !buy xradar. Javelin and Terrier should spawn WITH xradar, and shark should be able to !buy xradar or acquire xradar from eating greens. Also, reset everyone to $0 every couple of months.

Personally, option 1 is looking like a good idea. Followed by option 2. Then option 3.

I'm going to set the public arena to force even teams because I keep seeing teams very unbalanced. This is a simple arena setting.

Pub map is changing. It's not too different from the current pub map, but it restores even more of the original base created by Arilou. It's certainly not a drastic change - it just further resembles the original TW base.

EDIT: Disabling !buy xradar on all ships except shark is already in place. You can thank ThePAP (excellent new addition to our development team) for fixing that up so quickly.

Any other things that I am considering changing are completely out in the open. I'll either speak about it on forums and in-game or you can simply ask me.

Feel free to list your concerns on forums, message me on forums, or PM/?message me in game. I'll be watching forums and pub gameplay closely. Just talk to me if you have anything on your mind - I'm online every day.