Rixsta

I should stop giving idea's because im wasting my time... Wasting my time in helping the zone develop?! It really amazes me the amount of people that are quick to be cynical when the zone changes a setting or two, but when it comes to giving ideas its a ''waste of time'' ... Yawn! and i really expected some constructive critisicm. Shows what i know.

17th Parallel Soccer Event idea I feel a good idea for an event would be actual soccer event, for example no obstacles but 2 goals each side of an arena. Unlike SblBall it could focus more on the soccer side of things, rather than trying to mix it with hockey, like you can’t get behind the goal or the face off at the start. Having all the things a soccer match would have, swapping of ends at half time, after you conceed a goal you start with the ball from the halfway line, one team starts off with the ball at the start of the first half, the other team at the start of the second half. You would have a Goalkeeper, Defender, Midfielder, Attacker, each having their own settings, making it easier for them to do what they’re supposed to be doing e.g. an attacker attacking… the sort of settings that might work could go something like this… Goalkeeper (Shark & Spider) 2 bricks L2 Bombs Medium speed High energy Defender (Levi & Lanc) Repel L3 guns Slightly slower Med energy Midfielder (Ter and weasel) Warp (maybe) L2 guns Medium Speed Med energy Attacker ( WB & Jav) Rocket L1 guns Slight more speed High energy Also maybe the ship rotation could be different for each position. It’d probably need a lot of tweaking in general maybe a certain amount of boost could be included too (maybe a lot more for goalie). Maybe 6 a side (excluding Goalkeeper), this should allow two people per position and one goalkeeper and each team having there own ships... Example team one: Shark, Levi, Weasel and WB. Also another factor would be the timing, it probably would be best if attackers had more time on the ball than defenders… I think it could be successful seeing as 17th is fundamentally about soccer, and I think a more simple and straightforward event could attract all the people that play ball in pub but are turned off by the fact that SblBall is a Jav only event. It’d probably make a good league event if things go right. Another bonus I think will be the success of the settings in SBL Jav, which settings really are near perfect and I can’t really fault them, if these sort of settings and idea’s can be mimicked into this event it could be very successful. Please leave your comments; it’d be interesting to see what people think.

Im not sure if this has been brought up before but i was just wondering about the rumble bot having the ability to put people back in if they've lagged out, like in 2v2 arena, via a command. I guess it makes sense to have it so im guessing there's a flaw somewhere that makes it impossible or immpractical whether it be players being bale to abuse it, or that it just isn't do-able because of one reason or another (maybe the multiple freq's makes it a practical problem for the coding). Anyway would be useful if you could get it done because i've been in rumble on multiple occasions and we've had to drag in a mod. Be very useful anyway. Cheers Rix

Fedi-ral express... lol yes it know that was poor, but i thought it was funny lol

Is it a surprise? i like suprises lol... but not when they're guna help new people kick my -*BAD WORD*- :S lol

How about a "new people-guide" on the site, to go a little bit more in depth, with periodic messages linking to it, trying to cover almost all of the topics that come up when new people join the zone: *Attaching *Ships (attributes and abilities, do's and dont's) *Specials *Controls *FAQ (help, team killing, etc etc) *Commands *Abilities (anti, cloak, when to use it, when not to, what they do) *More complex new people stuff (Macroing, Changing keys, idea of the workings of ships, L3 bombs/bullets, mine damage) *Chat's *And General tips (close bombing and what not) Rix

Nice one mate, don't let all that power go to your head.

Sup manus, been a while.

The represen!@#$%^&*ive thought seems fairly decent, but not per ship, maybe a sort of represen!@#$%^&*ive/commitee of 5 or so members that represent the whole of the 17th parallel would be good though. The idea that the commitee/represen!@#$%^&*ive becomes a go between between the staff development of the zone and the idea's/wants/needs of the members of the 17th... could be a mixture of players with strong ideas mixed with staff with strong idea's... that way it would provide an even amount of views. Allowing the average player/user of the zone being able to go to any of these commitee members and give their idea's/wants/needs and then a head of the commitee would be the physical go between development team and members. Probably be a useful bridge between staff and the average user, an inbetween team. That way the most wanted needs of the public members get aired and members can have a say in what happens more easily. Rix :wtfwtf: _@/' | ><((("> <- A fish (The 17th members) <_< | ><@/' <- A Snail fish (the go between) lol

Sounds good, but it will be interesting to see. So you have to green for your veteran ability? ---- if thats the case wouldnt it pose 2 problems: 1) People getting to hooked up on greening and not the game 2) Ship's need for greening would vary, the search for an x-radar from a WB would probably be alot more than a weasels searching for extra shrap. Dunno but it could effect the way the basing goes, for example, after respawning a weasel would probably just re-attach, yet a WB would probably want to find a green first... this may sound dumb, but it will be interesting to see. Ships like Wb, Jav, ter would probably green longer, because they're veteran ability is almost essential, yet extra shrap or some extra speed may not sound that important to go and green for ages for. Anyway overall it sounds good.

The most fun i can honestly say is when there is a base wars, defending your goal with ya team mates is cool, especially when its fairly even number defending and attacking they can go on for quite a while... The Thing i like about the zone is the soccer part... when you get a good number of players it can be quite enjoyable... The thing i dislike is the useless parts of the game... for example north base... and some parts of the base... like the 2 routes towards the goal (direct or round abit) now in general North was good when people did care about it, and the defending element to was awesome, because there was loatsa of layers so u could defend from right out front to a little further in and right back to the final door. To improve it i would like to see maybe more depth to the base, yet less complex routing towards it, flags leading to the centre of the base (the goal) would be good, because it could help entice people into base wars, but base wars in terms of defending your goal, not keeping your flags... Anyway thats just my opinion, obviously alot of people like alot of elements to the game, so everyones idea of a good pub will be different.

Hey following my last post i was just wondering the current views on the pub arena... i know quite a few people dont like it. In my opinion i think its ok. Anyway the point of this message was to find out Why people dont like it? or why they do? And what should be changed? and to what? and what shouldn't be changed? Anyway this should make an intresting read... if anyone reply's lol

The problem is people are quick to put the events/pub down, yet they wont say why, making it hard to change things, even when new events get hosted all you here is "this is lame...." at least try and explain why its "lame" that way it can get changed to make it better, it was the same with the freaky firday changes, you got nothing but cynicism... if people cared to even say why its bad/good it would help loads. And i think most people forget that everyone that uses the zone can help make the changes if they want them, how long does it take to email telson about a new event? could even take a more active role like making Lvl's... Was shown in part with Telson's post about new event idea's, dont think anyone had one good thing to say about anything... in fact it even went as far as people commenting how peoples ideas are copying... now how can we expect to get things changed if you dont want to explain why u want it to change, or what you want it to be changed to...

True say Delic, but fundamentally 17th is about the ball game, therefore anything that helps you score a goal should be used, and in theory be a 'good' thing. Now whether or not its a good thing in terms of the ball game im not sure, but its -*BAD WORD*- annoying in general, especially when people dont even attempt to fight you... just chase you to get close enough to warp you. ---- As for avoiding it, maybe there could be another way in which the brick works when its layed on a user, this is probably more to do with the actual game rather than the zones settings though... if it repels you when it's layed on you, that might work, or that if that its just physically impossibe to do it, e.g if it would of been layed on you it ends up laying to the right of ya.... any way, it just doesn't seem right having to change an entire ships settings for a few users that dont know the true potential of what is a good ship.

But brick warping has become quite a tactic now, people should be aware of it and try and avoid it... if you know a Shark is coming towards you not firing, you either know they're new or they're guna brick warp you. May sound obvious but try and get away from it, although its -*BAD WORD*- hard in base wars.