After reading a different thread, I decided to create this one as an outlet for those who do enjoy towering. I suppose if you like PKing, this thread is for you as well.

I want to hear what you all think should be added to the whole towering experience. Maybe there are even things that should be removed, updated, etc. Please do not comment hate because you think towering "sucks." I want to see genuine answers, as I'm honestly curious about what your opinions are.

Feel free to share your thoughts, just be mature about it.



Original thread: http://www.graalians.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28652  

Posted by Xeria

After reading a different thread, I decided to create this one as an outlet for those who do enjoy towering. I suppose if you like PKing, this thread is for you as well.

I want to hear what you all think should be added to the whole towering experience. Maybe there are even things that should be removed, updated, etc. Please do not comment hate because you think towering "sucks." I want to see genuine answers, as I'm honestly curious about what your opinions are.

Feel free to share your thoughts, just be mature about it.



Original thread: http://www.graalians.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28652

I've already mentioned this at least a half dozen times. When I was LAT Admin, the server had been wiped of pretty much all content. When we rereleased Mod Town, I participated with my guild and it was by far the best towering experience I've had, even if there were only 30 players on the server at the time.

Essentially what I implemented was one flag hit changes ownership, and your guild must hold it for two minutes to win a round. I based it on Trench Wars, a server for the game Continuum (this video doesn't have audio). Actually it's one of the reasons you still see bottlenecks, because you need them for that kind of battle. It got reverted back to flag HP methods some time after I left the development team.

 

Posted by deadowl

It got reverted back to flag HP methods after I left the development team.

Beats me as to why they got rid of your method, seems like it was a smart idea in my opinion.

I actually remember hearing about that happening, it was ages ago. :0 I don't know what the admins could do now, but towering has become so monotonous, at least for me. Heck, I'd be glad if they brought back capture the flag for a change.

I don't want to go off-topic, but there are so many things that I feel admins could be improving/bringing back. Instead of making new hats every so often, I can't help but think that they could be working towards new things. Maybe they need more ideas?  

Posted by deadowl

Essentially what I implemented was one flag hit changes ownership, and your guild must hold it for two minutes to win a round.

You mentioned this on a few other threads recently. If a guild holds for 2minutes, Im guessing it dumps everyone outside for the new round? This would work well for Sardons. Possibly Deadwood, but defending DW would be drastically different since you would want people defending the very bottom. Just thinking aloud  

Posted by twilit

You mentioned this on a few other threads recently. If a guild holds for 2minutes, Im guessing it dumps everyone outside for the new round? This would work well for Sardons. Possibly Deadwood, but defending DW would be drastically different since you would want people defending the very bottom. Just thinking aloud

I mention it all the time because I'd like to see it again. I had redesigned MoD around the concept, but all of the other towers have been implemented or reimplented since then (there was a server reset on PC around 2006 and MoD was the first to be brought back). It didn't dump everyone outside between rounds iirc. Rather, some 15-30 seconds to regroup. Level design is definitely a bigger deal in terms of keeping balance if this style of play is implemented at forts, and there's a lot of room for experimentation in level design to promote a more competitive environment, so I'd wonder about Crono and Imprint's impressions. Crono may have played with US at least at one point with that style, but I'm not sure.  

Would towering become too complicated for the majority of people if each tower had a different method to it? Like you guys have been saying, the "hold for 2 minutes" method was designed for MoD, then so on and so forth for the other towers then too.

I'm not sure if each tower having a separate strategy like that would be possible even, it might cause a bit of lag.


If it interests people enough, I might make a poll just to see what everyone thinks about all of this.  

Posted by deadowl

I've already mentioned this at least a half dozen times. When I was LAT Admin, the server had been wiped of pretty much all content. When we rereleased Mod Town, I participated with my guild and it was by far the best towering experience I've had, even if there were only 30 players on the server at the time.

Essentially what I implemented was one flag hit changes ownership, and your guild must hold it for two minutes to win a round. I based it on Trench Wars, a server for the game Continuum (this video doesn't have audio). Actually it's one of the reasons you still see bottlenecks, because you need them for that kind of battle. It got reverted back to flag HP methods some time after I left the development team.

Would be stupid af since there so many hardcore laggers and delayers.  

Loved basing and Warbird duels on Trench Wars, so sad that Continuum is mostly dead now