New game?

Yoman82 · Post by **Yoman82** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 9:40 pm

We all want this site to grow and prosper. The problem with that is our low member base. To attract more members, we're going to need new, good games. Two is kind of pathetic. We had more at one point. I don't know what happened, but at that point we also had more members.
I'm proposing a battlefield server. The races don't really matter to me, but we should dump clans, give infinate attacks, and give an amount of grain or troops for repelling an attack. There's where I hit a problem. This net system is new to me. You should get about... 1-2% of your attacker's net. Of course, from that springs a tag teaming problem, but that's nothing our great staff couldn't sort out.
I'm really hoping this doesn't get dumped in a forgotten topics bin somewhere in the dark reaches of the forums. Yoman out!

Post by **The Beatles** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 10:53 pm

Why wouldn't the current system do?

Apart from that, a battlefield server sounds nice. I guess BFR was meant to be one, really, except attacks are limited.

The reason we only have 2 servers is because we felt too many servers would dilute the existing, small member base into more but smaller servers, which were then less fun. But I'm open to arguments to the contrary.

Post by **Ruddertail** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 11:12 pm

Our net system is essentially the same as most sites. Confused with the scaling?

Beatles - more standard servers do have a chance of spreading the player base. I doubt that special servers will act that way, however - few people skip BFR because they want to play duels.

No, BFR was not meant the be a Battlefield. BFR is a fast - paced netting server, as I understand it's intention. Battlefield is a warring server - you get points/net for attacking people.

Post by **The Beatles** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 11:21 pm

Ah, thanks.

I'm sure Turock has more experience with these servers btw.

Post by **Freenhult** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:04 am

Why don't we reinstate capture the flag or something for a few month? Rotate a 3rd server to be say... Bloodbath, Duels, CTF, and something else. That would be spiff, and might attract more people.

Keke · Post by **Keke** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 6:19 am

Freenhult that is great idea. I've had this in mind some time too.

Duels. Would there be possibility that there would be third game that is 1on1?
I thought that it would work like this.

Login page. You put your username there. Then you put password of the battle that you've chosen with the other player. Then there is two players trying to kill each other.

One thing is that I don't know how it should work. If there is attack limit you couldn't kill the guy. If there isn't attack limit you could kill the guy when you have your first chance.

Or then it could be that you need whole run to kill that guy. Land could be just thing that comes along attacking and empire's have Hit Points that they get when time goes.

What do you think about this idea? I think that it would take some coding but you could try to ask if it would be wanted.

Yoman82 · Post by **Yoman82** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 10:48 am

@ Rudder: The smaller troops and grains= large net.
Yeah. I like bettlefields. They're really fun. What's capture the flag?

Keke · Post by **Keke** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 12:33 pm

I think that It would be something team game that is like this.

Unteamed guy gets flag. Teamed guys kill him. Killer gets the flag. Counter starts. Other team kills the new flag guy. Their counter starts. The team that kept the flag longer wins.

King of the Hill would be good too.

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:49 pm

Freenhult wrote: Why don't we reinstate capture the flag or something for a few month? Rotate a 3rd server to be say... Bloodbath, Duels, CTF, and something else. That would be spiff, and might attract more people.

Yeah, we could try my version of CTF or even try survivor mode with or without attacking where the lowest player gets eliminated every other night at midnight

Post by **Freenhult** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 6:03 pm

Slasher wrote:
Freenhult wrote: Why don't we reinstate capture the flag or something for a few month? Rotate a 3rd server to be say... Bloodbath, Duels, CTF, and something else. That would be spiff, and might attract more people.
Yeah, we could try my version of CTF or even try survivor mode with or without attacking where the lowest player gets eliminated every other night at midnight

Good call there Slashypants.

Post by **Ruddertail** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 6:45 pm

Duels is a team server - essentially, two groups of people trying to kill each other. Last team standing wins. Signups are closed when the game starts.

Capture the Flag is a server with 5 large "Flag" accounts. The idea is to break the flag accounts, at which point you get more land to break the next one. I can't remember how you win, is it just highest net? Maybe you should get X points for breaking/killing the flags?

Battlefield would be a cool addition to the rotation, or even permanent.

Yoman - it's scaling. The actual numbers, except for ships, aren't altered at all. Ships have been actually scaled by 100, with net and attack altered multiplied by factor 100 to compensate.

Yoman82 · Post by **Yoman82** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 7:12 pm

^Sorry, was I unclear? That's what I meant. The numbers.
^^^I'd love that last elimination one.
And... Duels sounds good, put some of these up and I'll get some of my friends over here.

Keke · Post by **Keke** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 7:06 am

But could duels made to 1on1 game? I like all those ideas.

Yoman82 · Post by **Yoman82** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 10:41 am

1 on 1? We'd need 2174894678504 servers, then.

Keke · Post by **Keke** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 12:57 pm

Did you even read my post earlier? It's the sixth post in this topic. And remember that I was asking can it be done. Not saying that it has to be done.

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