the recently played jackpot game was the most fun i've had in a long time of 17th playing, if not the most ever. look into incorporating a goal into that base and lose the east/west bases. i'm not saying put a goal in some random place in the base already - i suggest somehow creating an alternate path to the goal that still intersects the path to the main flag rooms. maybe just one tile holes for weasels/bombs to get through. it has alot of potential i think. responding to the few criticisms posted here: akai: i found the passages to be fine. there is a definite difference between teh accesibility of the central tube and the two side entrances. taking the side entrances will probably lead you to a flag, but taking the tube (if your team can) can lead to 10 very quickly. I didn't find spiders that dominant. only wb/levi/terr/shark have a realistic chance of holding the main tube. spiders have lots of closed spaces, but all those closed spaces also mean more wall bombing. becoming skilled in multi-bounce ships is more important with this base. dkr: your points barely deserve response. "even more stupid entrances?" i suppose you mean the fact there are 3 of them. little fighting occurs at the side entrances, true, but you cant have the side entrances being as short a path as the tube. likewise, you can't have the main tube being wide enough to quickly fly through (as in, can't be wider than it is now because than any newb could just fly right in. now it takes some skill to line up, and skill to fly right in if you're in a hurry). as for the bounce problem, you have some small point here. however, thors are still available, and lancs and terriers. most of all though the closed space makes it almost impossible to dodge wallbombing even by level 2 bombs. i vote for not hitting matrix .... that's a change. next week put up the same base with the ball extension(s) added on to it and see what happens. as rix said change is refreshing, and one day's changes wont drive anyone away. interesting it's always the same old people posting here :/