In my opinion, the tower system is pretty flawed. It's far too easy for any controlling guild with 4+ members to stay in control of a tower once they've taken it. It's way too hard to take over a tower. Here are a few things I would like to see changed -- post your opinions, or add on to the list

• Spawn areas for controlling guild - Having the controlling guild die where they spawn, or even worse, right next to the flag, makes it too hard for guilds to take over the tower. With the amount of people on iPhone, I can understand the reasoning behind giving the controlling guild an advantage, but this advantage is far too great. The spawn area for the controlling guild needs to be moved further from the flag.
  
  
• "Bottlenecking" in paths leading to flag room - Bottlenecking refers to poor level design which forces people trying to take over the tower to funnel in through a space that ONE player from the controlling guild can easily stand at and slash constantly to effectively block multiple people. Examples include the stairs going to the Deadwood Tower flag room, and the stairs leading up to the MoD flag area. Couple this flaw with the fact that after the STAIRBLOCKER dies, he respawns right next to the flag, and this is pretty gamebreaking. There is really no reason for a guild NOT to use this tactic as it is so powerful.
  
  
• REALLY long walks back to the flag room after dying - I can't really see a reason that the levels leading up to the flag areas need to be so huge, and in a lot of cases, difficult to navigate. (sup deadwood?)
  
  

 

In MoD, I'd like to see maybe a back entrance so that the traffic into it won't be such a hassle. Also, a room before castle flag room that if you kill them they will respawn back at the bridge, due to the people who act like p**sies.
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Posted by Papyrus

In MoD, I'd like to see maybe a back entrance so that the traffic into it won't be such a hassle. Also, a room before castle that if you kill them they will respawn back at the bridge, due to the people who act like p**sies.
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The traffic problem in MoD relates to the bottlenecking issue, it's just more noticeable there because MoD is pretty central and gets a lot of players.  

Posted by MR MAGNETIC

In my opinion, the tower system is pretty flawed. It's far too easy for any controlling guild with 4+ members to stay in control of a tower once they've taken it. It's way too hard to take over a tower. Here are a few things I would like to see changed -- post your opinions, or add on to the list

• Spawn areas for controlling guild - Having the controlling guild die where they spawn, or even worse, right next to the flag, makes it too hard for guilds to take over the tower. With the amount of people on iPhone, I can understand the reasoning behind giving the controlling guild an advantage, but this advantage is far too great. The spawn area for the controlling guild needs to be moved further from the flag.
  
  
• "Bottlenecking" in paths leading to flag room - Bottlenecking refers to poor level design which forces people trying to take over the tower to funnel in through a space that ONE player from the controlling guild can easily stand at and slash constantly to effectively block multiple people. Examples include the stairs going to the Deadwood Tower flag room, and the stairs leading up to the MoD flag area. Couple this flaw with the fact that after the STAIRBLOCKER dies, he respawns right next to the flag, and this is pretty gamebreaking. There is really no reason for a guild NOT to use this tactic as it is so powerful.
  
  
• REALLY long walks back to the flag room after dying - I can't really see a reason that the levels leading up to the flag areas need to be so huge, and in a lot of cases, difficult to navigate. (sup deadwood?)
  
  

Agreed, Castle is probally the one that needs the most improvement, it takes forever to get back to the flag when you die and have to run through the place, also the guild who has the flag respawns where they were standing.  

I see, then I second your statement.  

Well Magnetic, despite the fact that towers are difficult to obtain, people still get them...I think it'd be too annoying constantly worrying about your tower being taken because it'd be so easy to take. If you get through all the hardships of taking a tower, you're generously rewarded with a simple-to-defend tower.  

Posted by Diz

Well Magnetic, despite the fact that towers are difficult to obtain, people still get them...I think it'd be too annoying constantly worrying about your tower being taken because it'd be so easy to take. If you get through all the hardships of taking a tower, you're generously rewarded with a simple-to-defend tower.

I don't want taking a tower to be easy. I want defending a tower to not be so brainless, and I want attacking a tower to be more fun.

As it stands now, if I were to try and take MoD, I would be spamming my sword until the player blocking the stairs dies (which I don't find fun), and would probably be below 1 hp by the time he dies and I'm able to go up the stairs into a more open area where I can actually move around and PK.  

This thread is exactly what I always thought, but I couldn't have said it better myself. Also, I am not fond of the king of the hill towers on the FaceBook server. Too many advantages.  

I was thinking about something similiar like this too.  

Posted by Shannon

This thread is exactly what I always thought, but I couldn't have said it better myself. Also, I am not fond of the king of the hill towers on the FaceBook server. Too many advantages.

Agreed. At deadwood, you can simply have one person killing and 5 members dancing on the ledge. I mean, really?  

The King of the Hill Towers may have their faults but the also force the guild to stay alert and move around. The current tower system on Classic iPhone allows half a guild to idle and yet the tower is still easy to defend.  

Posted by DrDoctor

The King of the Hill Towers may have their faults but the also force the guild to stay alert and move around. The current tower system on Classic iPhone allows half a guild to idle and yet the tower is still easy to defend.

When I tried King of the Hill on Facebook it seemed worse to me. Like the current Classic towers, the guild with the most players are the ones who are going to keep the towers. It has nothing to do with skill, even less so than the iPhone towers.  

Posted by Rufus

When I tried King of the Hill on Facebook it seemed worse to me. Like the current Classic towers, the guild with the most players are the ones who are going to keep the towers. It has nothing to do with skill, even less so than the iPhone towers.

Well, I wouldn't say that. I've taken KOTH's with less people. It's just a factor of who can PK better. If you can take down 4 before you die, and you got 3 guys backing you up vs. 5, it's honestly not that hard. This is from a DW experience, I haven't tried Snow yet.  

Posted by Rufus

When I tried King of the Hill on Facebook it seemed worse to me. Like the current Classic towers, the guild with the most players are the ones who are going to keep the towers. It has nothing to do with skill, even less so than the iPhone towers.

I didn't say they were perfect but guilds do have to be active and pay attention. A lot of this is because of the respawn point being farther away but people have taken the tower with two people even when the guild has five or so.  

As a member of nal we agree to all of those isssues to the poibt of banning us going to mod because of the pk issues and. Ppl shooting arrows ... Dw is amazingly outstandingly annoying to attack... Sards is second hardest followef by castle