Except that the point of the game isn't to capture flags, but to kill the other team -- with tanks. Give an infinite amount of resources, a non-destructible VF (or several, to be safe against griefers), and make it unappealing to go on foot by making the entire map outside the main bases damage players when not in a vehicle, no build brushes everywhere and so on. Nothing but tank on tank carnage in the center of the map. One of the existing maps can be converted (I'm thinking something like caldera) -- place the vfs up on top so that there is no other way to go but down. I think that a) this map will be fun -- the heart of empires is tank on tank combat; and b) some players don't get any experience with tanks because they spend the entire time as scout or building up walls around the comm -- they should maybe take a spin in a tank once in a while to see what fun it can be.
Tank maps are always fun. Btw, if anyone still plays BF1942 (here or at all) find a midway only server and jump in a destroyer. I used to spend hours sailing the sea pwning other ships. Tank combat always reminds me of it.
You're so wrong. Empires inherent imbalances: Nukes and Railheavies will ruin every match where both teams have full research and infinite res. Not to mention NF having failmeds and failheavies.
The funny thing about vehicle training is that from the few times that I've played it, I've had almost as many BE losses as I had NF losses... and yes, I somehow managed to pick the losing team each time =p
NF can win if they work together and know wtf they're doing... A couple of nukes to overheat clusters of BE tanks and then the rest work at rocket sniping them. Anyway, any nice, smart, wonderful, and handsome empires players/mappers wanting to take up such a map ?
Remember 2.2 is coming very, very soon. All these nasty little imbalances are fixed. I would love to make a map with a volcanic theme along the lines of vehicletraining... :D
dont ask how i stumbled across this thread, but even if i get infractions, ill push it for the hilarious statement of omneh ... i just have to quote it ... really sorry, i couldnt resist, i tried (for a second)
