I mean 2-4 servers will be pretty much enough. (if they would be 24 slots) On the other hand, it will be cool to have a few smaller servers instead. What we are playing isn’t TDM anymore its free for all. 24 players in a server is fun, but is causing the lack of skill in wars (we suck at them because we are used to pure chaos) and use of tactics. I'm playing here for a good 5 years now and still its all about individual scores, and its frustrating. I must admit I also played a good 3-4 years for scores and most of all fun, but I’m really missing the competition. A few months ago unbound my Scoreboard and my reconnect button. And for those who keep calling me a reconnect whore.....xD....I swap teams for the balance not for scores, I cant even see it. The highest score wars should end and we should play for the team instead. Things that might help:
Team spawns TOGETHER in a ?-random-? location in the map every time a team is eliminated. Also the winning team
Team location spawns after thaws: I was thinking about maybe direct spawn to the nearest spawn point from the thawer. Or just any spawnpoint near any teammate. It would be a lot more a Elimination-type game, which freeze actually is, with a small twist. This way people would care more about winning
.Then one thing that could really get rid of the damned scores: POINTS.
Points aren’t only deserved by just a kill or thaw, there should be bonuses! Like 3 kills in a row, 3 kills in 3 shots, and so on. This way, scores aren’t calculated in frags/min, because u can get more points from a bonus! It might sound a little weird and lame but this way the same people wont be always on top because they have such a good aim, now its just the one played the best that SINLGE match!. Ofcourse then we also should give extra points for team objectives, for example when u thawed 5 people in a round u get 5 extra points.
U can give all these bonuses names (like Defender! and blabla)
Get rid of the other things like excellent and stuff. Nobody really knows what they are worth, its just the more the better now
.Lol @ myself; when I read myself back here I see that the 3 shot in a row bonuses actually make the game more score based. So that’s something that would just make it more challenging. But team objectives can really make more teamplay. Then people finally wouldn’t say this anymore: Ye u are on top and have the highest score, but u have 20 thaws and I only have 10 so I’m better blsblablablalba crap!!!
The points could be like 5 points for a frag and thaw, +5 points for fragging a thawing enemy, +points for a combo, +points for loads of thaws, +points for last man frags and so on.
****Edit: Also it owuld be cool to show percentage of the thaw when mouseover the frozen player. Lot more strategic. 2nd: Maybe a faster thaw rate when thawing with more people!!!*****
All of this is just a quick look at it, there are a lot of variations that u can make. It would really make this game allot more fun and challenging to play (IMO) Really would like reactions, and don’t be to headstrong, I already hear the crying reactions for those who see there uber-ownage stolen away from them.
It’s not the that the gameplay is so perfect that we keep coming back for more, it’s the cool community with clans and so on that we have. The changes I mentioned wont be a new learning curve at all like the big shift to Efreeze was. There will be no speed changes and the feeling of the game will be exactly the same. I see it as improvements, especially the spawnpoints! The point-things make this game more fun to play, but I can understand that it will be hard to make it a good change for everyone.
Sorry for the big story and the crapy and unsorted layout, I hardly post and when I do its large and unsorted xD. Please read it and think about it
.(I do understand that all these options wont come from out of nothing and will have to be programmed and so on and this will take time and effort, but I’m not demanding it I just would really like it.) Edit: Ignore the server crap
Ciao
