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Deceth / Battle-City

Build a city, hire a team, drive a tank, orb the enemy! Multiplayer online game.
http://battlecity.org
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Points Based Newbie Bonus' #11

Open Rushing opened 14 years ago

Rushing commented 14 years ago

There has long been the debate that newbies should get some kind of bonus. There had long been the anti-debate that smurfs will abuse it. Well with the games population at an all time low, I feel this is the perfect opertunity to introduce something like this. There are only a few 'Pros' who still play, and they are mainly nice and fun people, not the kind of person to remake just to get a small health bonus. Which is my idea! If someones Points are under 5000, then allow them to have 50% extra health. Sure it's abusable, but I doubt anyone currently playing will do such a thing. And it also creates a new kind of play, like,

Jizohn, I know you suck N all, wanna try on a smurf to give me a bit of a challenge? or Hey! Just for a small laugh, lets both play on smurfs and have some fun, like seeing how far into each others cities we can rush! :)

P.S Sorry for my terrible post style in this, my brain has officially shut down.

Deceth commented 14 years ago

How can something like this be done if points do not exist? The future of Battle City might not have points if we are ever to exist in a multi-server world.

Rushing commented 14 years ago

It can easially exist, for I have a feeling that unless this server closes, there will be no other server. This is the server we've all stayed true to, and it could well be the server that the game dies with too.

Deceth commented 14 years ago

I will never myself code in a points-based newbie bonus =p It's only asking for trouble and abuse.

What's the actual problem here? Newbies die to fast? Would extra health even solve that problem? I doubt it. I think the real solution would be some sort of tutorial mode.

Points based advantages for newbies would create far more problems than they would solve. In fact, I don't think they would solve any problems.