New Idea: Freestyle Dueling League

[Summa]

So I was getting my shit kicked in during a DD today and thinking to myself...man if I had a spider against these wbs...I would be kicking their ass. Then it occurred to me...why don't we have a freestyle dueling league. It would probably be a DD arena but allow either all ships to be added or just 1,3, and 7. Standard deathmatch to 10....would be interesting some of the combos teams come up with. Just a thought....any opinions.

[not in game]

:grin: love it

[Ganon-Knight]

might as well just set it up in wbduel2 since it doesnt get used much if at all anymore

shouldn't be all that difficult to allow the bot to let you choose between ship 1, 3 and 7 when adding




i like it!

[Jones]

wait wait wait wait are we gonna call it TWLD?

[Azada]

Add obstacles, make the arena a bit smaller, and use ships 1 2 3 7 8 and it sounds even better! Maybe incorporate thors and bricks also.

[Kraftyjack]

Allow terrs too, in UFO elim the terrs get alot of kills, most go positive.

[kthx]

This thread started out good but ended bad.

Lets try Summa's idea, just use the twsd bots.

[fLaReD]

Stick with summas idea. The more ships you add the sloppier it gets. Adding a few walls might be nice though...not too many or it will be too much like twsd. Also another idea maybe make all ships attachable?

[Zeebu]

is this thread about rapping?

[curse]

Nice idea humid +1

[Ricko]

good idea, but keep it to 1,3,7 and alter the lanc settings so it doesnt have such a huge advantage (take it back to 1 shot?) and with walls...if you add any, keep them to an absolute minimum.

[Jason]

this will just be like the way-back-when original twl when slowbob ran it in a separate zone.

i had mixed feelings about it back then, but the playerbase has drastically (and drastically is an understatement) changed over the years, so maybe it'd be a hit now.

edit: zeeb, TWLF would be awesome if it were all about rapping. i call ilya for my team!

[Summa]

Flared and I talked a little, and here is some more input on the idea.

What do you think of making it challengeable from 3 players to 6 players, with an expandable arena (like elim and belim) for matches of 5 or 6 players....dunno how much work that would be for a bot coder...but these are just ideas for now.

Plus i think this would bring some epic lulz. I mean think of a top tier dueling squad rollin in all cocky. Put 4 wbs in, and some base squad puts in 4 lancs and 50-20's them. Dunno, I just think there is a lot more comedic and trash talking potential here than ppl acknowledge.

[Jones]

other ships don't stand a chance vs. warbirds.

i've sort of played around with an idea that you would have a map with a few walls and 2 flags, limit wbs and have a fighter ship flagging league.

[Nockm]

this will just be like the way-back-when original twl when slowbob ran it in a separate zone.

i had mixed feelings about it back then, but the playerbase has drastically (and drastically is an understatement) changed over the years, so maybe it'd be a hit now.

edit: zeeb, TWLF would be awesome if it were all about rapping. i call ilya for my team!

Thought as much that some oldie would have mentioned Slowbob's TWL zone...
I played a whole bunch of those games and most people ended up choosing 5 warbirds anyway. So while it's a cool idea and shouldn't cause any harm in trying out - I wouldn't count on it to raise interest in the long-term.

My prediction is that it would be a short-lived novelty... but maybe TWD could do with a lil injection of interest!