NEW Pub LEVI and Small X in Testing

[bounty]

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Ok, the new levi is here. It has some changes to what was first listed a month ago. Here it is:

• Bomb - L3 baby!
• Max Energy - 1050
• Portals - Spawn with 1, can green or !buy and carry 2 total.
• Repels - 2
• Rocket - 1
• X-Radar - Not available at spawn but CAN be obtained with !buy xradar
• Bomb fire energy - 1040
• Gun fire energy - 500 (yay! ty qan.)

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New weasel settings:
Small X!

Compared to the old small X:

• Cloak energy needed is up. You can still permacloak, but you no longer gain (or lose) energy when cloaked.
• Afterburners cost more/can't reach as high a speed. This makes flag grabs in FR much more difficult.
• Much shorter rocket. You can still use it for a burst shot but its use is much more limited now.
• Increased thrust for better maneuverability in tight spaces.
• % chance to start with a repel, rather than spawning with one by default.
• Very slightly slower bullets.
• Can buy high-drain stealth

At some point in the near future, there will be a poll/vote on the new levi/weasel settings for all interested to take part in. Until then post your love or hate here! :idea:

[Wazzaaa.nl]

I like the new levi settings! the old levi was just a waste of ship
this diversity makes pub a little more interesting again
hopefully LTing will be a thing again which brings teamwork and friendship amongst the pubplayers

[forwards]

hopefully LTing will be a thing again which brings teamwork and friendship amongst the pubplayers

LMAO

[bandcampgirl]

i vote no

[Funky Hobo]

I'm liking the new lev. It creates pub activity and makes things a lot more fun, which is what we need.

[senorkevin]

I agree with wazzaaa. The old Levi was a waste. I'm sure a lot a peeps won't like it to begin with but once the tkers get bored and revert back to their ships pub will be back to normal. More skill required.

[Azov]

I think the new Levi is a lot of fun. Just like the old days!

[olde]

The old days you didnt get spawned into base!!!!!!!!!!

Well boyz i played about an hour of pub last night as LT. And I found a flaw then i exposed it, and made the whole pub RAGE quit. This should be fixed ASAP because any good LTer will kill pub and do the same as I did. The flaw being ( i know you are excited to hear this woop woop) You just wait anywhere on roof or on the sides of the base, when the basing rounds start ( the whole pub spawns inside the ears of base) you shoot a lev bomb and LITERALLY spawn kill the whole team that spawns in the ears of flagroom. I did it 3 rounds in a row and the whole pub just specced outa RAGE, killed the pub. I would think you should fix this FAST.You either CHANGE the spawning location, get rid of new Levi. Or you just let LTs kill the pub and push away the FEW players u have left playing day to day. Pick your poison wisely....... Will a staff member please respond?!?

[Rab]

How about warping everyone to safes at the start?

[Wazzaaa.nl]

How about warping everyone to safes at the start?

This or warp everyone in midbase

[bounty]

How about warping everyone to safes at the start?

This idea i really like!! I have passed it along to the proper channels for attention!

[Jones]

does this mean private freqs are completely banned

pick one:

pure pub

or

pub with levi

[Shadowmere]

Everyone with !warp ON already get warped to safe and back to FR.
If your !warp is OFF, but you're in flag room when the warp happens, you will still be warped to safe and back to FR. Otherwise you will not be warped.

[qan]

You just wait anywhere on roof or on the sides of the base, when the basing rounds start ( the whole pub spawns inside the ears of base) you shoot a lev bomb and LITERALLY spawn kill the whole team that spawns in the ears of flagroom.

Yeah, noticed this one myself. Pretty bad. As you say, in the past we didn't have the round-start warp (or, well, rounds, before I put the timed game in so many years ago), so people could actually defend against LTs at any time.

Trying to think of a non-obstructive way to do it. Warping everyone to safe is really heavy-handed, and interrupts a lot of stuff that's going on in pub, all in the name of basing. (As much as I love pub basing, and as much as it's really the heart and soul of pub, I think it's naive to center all play around it. We all started out spawnkilling, and that remains a good intro to the game for so many people. LTing offers some really fun and interesting play opportunities, too, so long as it doesn't disrupt the game too much.)

So far my main idea is to warp LTs and Levis to bottom safe if they are in the overall roof region 10 seconds before a round starts (and maybe 5 seconds after, to prevent porting in).

Another idea that would assist basers who still want to battle LTs, though might be slightly controversial or strange for TWers, is offering a one-way portal from inside the base to outside it, activated by sitting in a certain spot inside mid. Kind of like a "scramble the fighters!" option of a starbase.

I re-enabled the LT hunting freq (99), which offers bonus $ to LT hunters, and shares all bounties among hunters. In exchange, this freq gets no bonus for winning the flag game, or the usual extra points for making kills inside base. (It does not give away LT positions, as it once did.) I also reduced the price of antiwarp a bit, to make it a bit more affordable to go on the hunt as a spider. MIGHT lower the cost of the roof turret, but that thing's so damn disruptive, and just seems like a lazy way to deal with things... Same goes for re-enabling the "pure pub" or "sorta pure pub" buy.

Any thoughts or ideas? Really want to make L3 work in pub if we can possibly accommodate it. It's massively destructive but also has potential to be extremely fun. People have kinda gotten used to pub being only about basing, when in the end, as annoying as they are, levis have always been part, and enjoying the satisfaction of running them down and killing them (as well as massive multikills as part of an LT) is a time-honored tradition.

[bounty]

Ok the lame roof camping situation by Levi and LT's at start of rounds has been solved by Qan, our wizard. Levi, Terrs, and LT camping roof will be warped into bottom safe at round start. This prevents 6-7 fers at one touch of tab button and clearing the FR the moment the round begins! This was fun to camp and lame like that I admit.... but ruins basing.:skull: