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Teleport box #42

Open ghost opened 4 years ago

ghost commented 4 years ago

Mentioned by @spatiebot

Not sure what his idea for it is, but I like the idea of a box that literally just teleports you as soon as you hit it. This would make another amazing primitive for fun game modes... imagine an 'assault course' type setup, where each box you hit takes you some way along the course.

Maybe also useful for some kind of maze game. Imagine a cage laid out like

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
X                                        X
X                                        X
X       X          X            X        X
X                                        X
X                                        X
X                                        X
X                                        X
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Where 'X' are all teleport boxes, and of the middle 3, only one of them takes you forward, everything else sends you back to the start, etc.

ghost commented 4 years ago

For CTF.. imagine the shenanigans if there was a (truly randomly) spawning teleport box somewhere around the opposing base. 50/50 it takes you home or teleports you to their spawn

spatiebot commented 4 years ago

This.

spatiebot commented 4 years ago

we could have several types of teleport boxes:

random/random: spawn random and teleport to random location. This could be useful for escaping.
random/deterministic: spawn random and teleport to a given location. This could be useful to teleport quickly to base or to enemy base, or be annoying if it's an evil box, teleporting you to a remote area.
deterministic/deterministic: like the germany crate, spawns at a given location and will always teleport to a given position.

To prevent the boxes from interfering with the regular gameplay, I think they should be rare.

ghost commented 4 years ago

+1 on the rareness. There are a ton of ideas for new boxes already:

xray vision
carrots (this could maybe just be temporary and removed again)
teleport
mystery box
boxes that collide with missiles somehow

Adding them all might turn into chaos, so maybe worth thinking about how to enable them sanely. Maybe a default-off server config option? Or Jam's old idea, where you can vote carrots enabled for 15 minutes, etc.