LT Hunter freq in Pub

[Shaddowknight]

theres many options, and untill a real person/team is set to actively be working on this, all of our talk and ideas are doing nothing.
I'll see about getting at least something if council doesn't fall apart completely in qan's absence. Otherwise I'll see what I can get set up with staff/dev

[Bukkake Surprise]

Or you could only buy things in safe.

[Jerome Scuggs]

it should be possible, but the !buy menu would look pretty messy and be confuising.
If it was made a flat multiplier and was mentioned several times on !buy menu, and broadly made known of the change, it may work with less messyness on the !buy menu

I feel like a 300% price increase across the board would work. Not sure how the bot is coded but the easiest way to do it obviously would be across the board... but some things, like epidemic, are already expensive (for this very reason, over-use) so modifying those items might be overkill.

once again the best solution depends on how easily the code can be written. ideally one could implement terr- and flagroom-specific price increases, but the effort wouldn't be worth it

[Shaddowknight]

it should be possible, but the !buy menu would look pretty messy and be confuising.
If it was made a flat multiplier and was mentioned several times on !buy menu, and broadly made known of the change, it may work with less messyness on the !buy menu

[Jerome Scuggs]

would it be possible to change prices depending on safe/not safe, like let a terr buy ports/bursts while in the base butttt charge them out the ass for it

[Bukkake Surprise]

Make !buy only doable in safes again then, so terrs can't keep buying portals. And then people have to go to safe to buy anti.

[Wazzaaa.nl]

Don't really care about useless changes but while you're at it, make it so that ONLY PLAYERS ON FREQ 99 (ANTI-LT FREQ) CAN PURCHASE ANTI-WARP

Every time I've complained about anti-warp ruining pub basing for terrs, staff defense has been "anti-warp prevents LT attacks"

So, now that you have a freq specialized to prevent LT's, remove anti-warp from pub basing freqs and add it only to the anti-LT freq. This way you have these freq 99 pubbers running around base hunting the LT using anti-warp however they please while I am uninhibited from doing what I like to do in the flag room. Thanks #yolo

i agree with this
the antiwarp disrupts the gameplay for baseterriers who stimulate the basegame in pub
ITS FREAKN ANNOYING

[Bukkake Surprise]

"So rather than make them less (and less (and less)) powerful until nobody even wants to LT anymore -- and after all, reducing pub population by restriction instead of by letting LTs run wild is probably even more likely to create bitter feelings in the community -- why not give hunters a little edge in tracking them down?"

What a load of shit. It's going to create bitter feelings among the 8 assholes who LT. Fuck them. This is the same idiotic thinking you displayed when you claimed the ability to buy garbage like base terr doesn't really affect the game. When I complained about the Shield, someone increased its price and probably felt mighty proud that he had "solved" a problem. All that did was increase the advantage long time players have over noobs. You really think someone with a million pub bux is gonna give a shit about the difference between 8000 and 6000?

Has anyone even switched to the LT hunter freq? I sure haven't, and I don't intend to. I know I'm going to be the only one on there and I will lose all my teammates' help and information on LT sightings. What a stupid idea. There aren't enough players on the main teams and you're gonna try to reduce the main teams even further? Brilliant. Hey, I know. Why don't you put in an LT-hunting bot that people can buy? Buying shit doesn't affect the game anyway, and every problem can be solved by adding retarded "features".

Why is it still possible for more than 3 people to attach to a terr? Why is it still possible to buy a bunch of shit? Why haven't these retarded changes been reversed already? Why should a private freq be restricted? What if it doesn't have a levi and wants to take the flag?

And why do people who are outside the flag room when it shrinks get warped in the flag room?

I don't care about fucking hunting freqs. I just want to base. I don't want to hunt fucking LTs. Why is that so hard to understand? Alternate levi weeks with no-levi weeks and see which gets more people. Or alternate levi days with no-levi days. And a third day with levis on main freqs only. That way people don't have to wait very long to play the way they want.

The people who play this game are different from the ones who played a decade ago. Back then, people were slightly less retarded. They didn't just sit there and get blasted over and over again (well, sometimes they did). Still, eventually they got off their dumb asses and went after the LT. Nowadays, the morons don't do anything, even when the levi's in mid. Even if it's just a plain levi. They just die over and over again. And the stupidest of those people become staff.

"It may also take some of the guilt/blame off of LTs... i.e., "You say we're ruining basing? Quit whining, get on the Hunter Freq and kill us!""

Do you listen to yourself? Do you reread what you've written before posting? You think they have any guilt at all? You think we needed a fucking hunting freq to kill LTs? How did we manage all these years without it? What we need are some teammates who aren't fucking retarded and who try to kill the thing that's killing them. Get me some of those. Keep your bullshit freq.

[anti-lev propaganda]

Don't really care about useless changes but while you're at it, make it so that ONLY PLAYERS ON FREQ 99 (ANTI-LT FREQ) CAN PURCHASE ANTI-WARP

Every time I've complained about anti-warp ruining pub basing for terrs, staff defense has been "anti-warp prevents LT attacks"

So, now that you have a freq specialized to prevent LT's, remove anti-warp from pub basing freqs and add it only to the anti-LT freq. This way you have these freq 99 pubbers running around base hunting the LT using anti-warp however they please while I am uninhibited from doing what I like to do in the flag room. Thanks #yolo

Can't say I'm for this. You want to keep levs trapped once they attach, or keep a terr from just portaling around (so when you're trying to clean out base, it reduces their options)... you have to use the antiwarp to achieve that. Secondly, my earlier point about getting enough people to move to a non-points-basing freq? Not going to happen.

And of course, just because you are on freq 99 doesn't imply you have to go chase the levs. You can just do what you want, really, like inhibiting what terrs may like to do in the flag room.

[Pressure]

Don't really care about useless changes but while you're at it, make it so that ONLY PLAYERS ON FREQ 99 (ANTI-LT FREQ) CAN PURCHASE ANTI-WARP

Every time I've complained about anti-warp ruining pub basing for terrs, staff defense has been "anti-warp prevents LT attacks"

So, now that you have a freq specialized to prevent LT's, remove anti-warp from pub basing freqs and add it only to the anti-LT freq. This way you have these freq 99 pubbers running around base hunting the LT using anti-warp however they please while I am uninhibited from doing what I like to do in the flag room. Thanks #yolo

[Steep]

Im sure those little bonus moneys wont make a baser interested into hunting some shitty runner and waste his time that way. Grant that freq an ability to buy thors and it might generate interest.

[anti-lev propaganda]

The only real issue is that the sophistication of hunting has not kept pace with the advancement of LT tactics.

A bigger issue is the population doesn't tend to support the ability to hunt properly a LT with 2 levs, a shark, and possibly an ablative shield (gunner). Hell, that's more than a pub freq during plenty of times during the day.

-- why not give hunters a little edge in tracking them down?

This isn't going to work in and of itself, since you have to get people to move to a freq with no basing benefits - and usually the big problem is getting enough people to go after the lt, so don't expect people to head over there. If you can get enough people, they still want to be on the team getting base benefits. Especially where there is a minimal amount of people in a freq, you want a freq to go off and not base? In that way, they contribute just as little as a priv lev freq, EXCEPT they might eventually kill the lame lev.

Personally, the current climate doesn't promote LTing like in "the good old days". I didn't like them then, either, but at least you could relatively easily get a critical mass of people to hunt them. Now, that doesn't happen, and I don't see this (hunter freq) suddenly making it happen either.

[idkidc1233]

I like how you've made a step toward controlling a levi or at least making it a little more beneficial to hunt them, but I think a couple ideas from the previous Leviathan thread should be incorporated... like no lts with only 10 ppl in, or purepubs scheduled for certain days.

[Wazzaaa.nl]

location coording? whut no man
why u think speccoording is illegal

[Shaddowknight]

add a levi lpcation alert once they reach certain bounty threshholds. At decent bty, just a vague location, but high bty exact coords