District402 sucks - so introduce ticket bleed

Meh I guess we disagree on what we want from district. For me its just a no stress shoot em up between commander maps. Not a tactical struggle. Just a bunch of good ol fashion point and click. IMO classic maps do the tactical/teamwork/epicness best and infantry maps should be a fun break shoot em up. IMO make it more like glycen with huge amount of tickets that bleed depending on how many flags you have and turrets limited to level 1. Then we wouldn't have all this conserving tickets boringness. But thats me.

 

Start at 50 tickets with no bleed. :D

 

Glycen is boring already (it's hard to retake the center). On district it's even worse because this map is totally linear for NF. They can't retake their bleed flag without destroying every single MG at the street level.

oh BTW Simon will say that NF can't fight with BE epicness there but well...

 

I want to optimize district's lightmaps, and limit turret level to level 2, but the last one requires coding by Krenzo.

 

You can already add a way of getting near NF bleed flag without killing tens of Level 2/3 turrets. (hint hint: add a room and place sewer exit there like it is near BE bleed flag)

 

Okay, okay, what about this to make it fun:

go down the glycen city route: LOADS of tickets, so respawning isn't penalised. this will mean attacking instead of just camping would be promoted. It would certainly lose some of it's "districtness" of sitting back, waiting for the enemy to attack and guarding the body, but on the other hand that's a good thing. Now attacks through the sewers would be viable because the tickets wouldn't matter so much.

I think that's the solution. Fun for everyone.

 

That was suggested in the 1.07 days as a way to make it fun, and I still think it could be an option.

If we're thinking radical, what about no build on the entire map? No turrets, no ammo boxes, no cameras.

It means sneaking behind enemy lines, mobile fronts and far less nade spam.

 

Yeah I suggested that along time ago..

http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=3259

Guess it got shot down tho

edit: plus server owners could get the old and new kind of matches.. Just change the tickets to how long you want the match to be, alot of tickets for the old 4 hour games or less for the new halfhour/hour games.. Right now it seems like who ever holds middle doesnt get anything good out of it because they are really just sitting ducks to mowtar and nade spam.. I've witnessed countless game where NF takes mid and holds it untill they lose all there tickets then BE runs in and grabs the bleeder ftw.. With the glycen style ticket bleed they can win the game by holding the middle

 

I say: Make another version without ticket bleed and only allow l3s at the last flag!

 

i think the ideal (and completely impractical) solution would be to re-do the whole map. I think Urban Chaos is a pretty good map, and I think that's because it has more side routes for less linearity and wider roads. Actually, chaos AND glycen have very wide routes compared to district, while maintaining the same level of cover (if not more).

 

with the masses of tickets suggestion, I still want the ticket bleed, just as glycen has. there wouldn't be any 4 hour games, just as there arn't on glycen either.

 

Honestly, though? Although I complain about it, I sort of like District the way it is now. I just wish that regular servers wouldn't run it... I would have no problem with a 24/7 District server running 5-hour no-ticket-bleed-at-all 500 ticket games for when I'm in the mood for a protracted standoff; sometimes it can be fun.

The problem is when a server that I joined to play a comm game switches to District and gets stuck there for hours... I think the solution isn't any change to District, but to go to all the big servers and complain until they take District out of rotation. A server shouldn't have both classic and conquest maps... it's less noticable on the (generally) shorter ones like Urban Chaos, but with District it's a big problem.

It's like having a server that randomly switches between Battlefield and Company of Heroes. They're both good games, but usually I want to play one or the other, you know?

 

Escort being Dune II, the mother of all RTSes

 

Im for more escort action, its a shame that we have only one escortish map

 

You know what I'd like to see? Mission maps with comms. It could be interesting, anyway.

Obviously, in that case it would have to be made so that losing the CV doesn't cost your team the match on those maps... perhaps it could just respawn after a while, like the buildings do on existing mission maps.

 

haha we actually did that.. Cyber-kun commanded NF on escort and still lost! ha! cyber you suck! :D

 

Simon once managed to place a barracks on top of the map, lol

 

hmm... an escort like map where you actually have to escort something to the end without it being destroyed. Interesting.

 

Yes, yes! I've been wanting this for years.

But some commander maps with some varied objectives would be nice

 

I love glycen and urban chaos... Sticky nade heaven... Oh how I love to get an APC full of morons

Introduce veichles intro disctrict ftw!!