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I was thinking about the leagues the other day. The current ones we have are good, but they are starting to get a bit old. Here is how we could change things up and really add whole new levels to things:
WB & Jav (Spider, if it happens to come as well)
Instead of elimination style (Kinda like Baseball), make it a scoring style (Kinda like Basketball). For say, 15 minutes, 2 teams of 5 fight each other. Perhaps allowing the teams (In TWD style league) the ability to challenge from 5 to 15 minute games, each with varying amounts of point risk. At the end of the time limit, whoever has the least deaths, wins. (WBs could count kills, but Javs have to count deaths due to TKs). Also, you should allow infinite subs, but someone can only subout when they either lagout or die. Lagouts would still cost you a death, but there would be no need for a lagout limit at all. This give the ability for teams that screw up in the beginning to come back towards the end. The other team may get a 20 point lead, but since it will be 5 on 5 throughout the entire match, the losing team has the ability to fill the gap. Plus, you can give as many people as you want the chance to play without any consequences. Another benefit would be that suicide runs would only waste your time as your team would neither lose nor gain anything from them. Also, team play would also be much more valuable since you would be with a team the entire time. Teamwork would improve very quickly through this style. Also, if someone starts out bad and/or needs a break, someone else can sub in. Then that person can sub in later on to try again. This would make playing the games much more enjoyable for everyone.
If at the end of the match there is a tie, the bot would increase the time in one minute increments until there wasn't a tie, like basketball overtimes.
Basing
I've never really got into basing all that much, but there are changes that could be made that would make it more fun (but im sure basers would disagree with me here). First, I would set the total time to 15 minutes, and whoever held the flag for the longer time wins. Again, if a tie, increase in one minute increments until there isn't one. That way, all matches in all leagues will be 15 minutes long (or whatever you decide on). As with WBs and Javs, allow anyone to sub out after a death or lagout. There is really no penalty for it at all. (Maybe this is already the case, I don't even know! LOL) The next part is probably where people won't like my ideas... Heh. I'd rather the leagues be more representative of the pubs since thats where the whole thing started. You can keep it to 8 on 8 if you want, but you should first let anyone be any ship they want to be. So a team wants 10 terriers? Let'em. 1 Terrier and 7 sharks? Would probably be pretty nasty, but let'em (They got finite repels, no worries). Also, let the levis play. Of course, they should still have to green should they want to attach. (Gotta be a little fair). Also, let people change in the middle of the match to whatever ship they want. Different situations really call for different ships. If people are craming with spiders, wouldn't a jav or two help you out? Though, I think I would limit ship changes to one every 30 seconds, so they don't abuse it too much. That's all I have to say about that.
The basing one probably isn't going to be well accepted, but what do you guys think about the WB/Jav idea?
WB & Jav (Spider, if it happens to come as well)
Instead of elimination style (Kinda like Baseball), make it a scoring style (Kinda like Basketball). For say, 15 minutes, 2 teams of 5 fight each other. Perhaps allowing the teams (In TWD style league) the ability to challenge from 5 to 15 minute games, each with varying amounts of point risk. At the end of the time limit, whoever has the least deaths, wins. (WBs could count kills, but Javs have to count deaths due to TKs). Also, you should allow infinite subs, but someone can only subout when they either lagout or die. Lagouts would still cost you a death, but there would be no need for a lagout limit at all. This give the ability for teams that screw up in the beginning to come back towards the end. The other team may get a 20 point lead, but since it will be 5 on 5 throughout the entire match, the losing team has the ability to fill the gap. Plus, you can give as many people as you want the chance to play without any consequences. Another benefit would be that suicide runs would only waste your time as your team would neither lose nor gain anything from them. Also, team play would also be much more valuable since you would be with a team the entire time. Teamwork would improve very quickly through this style. Also, if someone starts out bad and/or needs a break, someone else can sub in. Then that person can sub in later on to try again. This would make playing the games much more enjoyable for everyone.
If at the end of the match there is a tie, the bot would increase the time in one minute increments until there wasn't a tie, like basketball overtimes.
Basing
I've never really got into basing all that much, but there are changes that could be made that would make it more fun (but im sure basers would disagree with me here). First, I would set the total time to 15 minutes, and whoever held the flag for the longer time wins. Again, if a tie, increase in one minute increments until there isn't one. That way, all matches in all leagues will be 15 minutes long (or whatever you decide on). As with WBs and Javs, allow anyone to sub out after a death or lagout. There is really no penalty for it at all. (Maybe this is already the case, I don't even know! LOL) The next part is probably where people won't like my ideas... Heh. I'd rather the leagues be more representative of the pubs since thats where the whole thing started. You can keep it to 8 on 8 if you want, but you should first let anyone be any ship they want to be. So a team wants 10 terriers? Let'em. 1 Terrier and 7 sharks? Would probably be pretty nasty, but let'em (They got finite repels, no worries). Also, let the levis play. Of course, they should still have to green should they want to attach. (Gotta be a little fair). Also, let people change in the middle of the match to whatever ship they want. Different situations really call for different ships. If people are craming with spiders, wouldn't a jav or two help you out? Though, I think I would limit ship changes to one every 30 seconds, so they don't abuse it too much. That's all I have to say about that.
The basing one probably isn't going to be well accepted, but what do you guys think about the WB/Jav idea?
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