Kilo

Well, it's generally noted that balling is generally a bit more unbalanced in terms of rewards. As I said in a topic in HS-dev, manipulating the formula to be something like inverse-quadratic might be beneficial to fix this problem. However, now that there aren't people who can buy hundreds and bricks of shields, people will be trying even harder to earn that money, most likely. As for your note about basing the ball...people shouldn't be forced to play the flag game just because some frequency puts the ball in their base. To me, it makes the game tons less fun, and many people (especially now) are unable to retrieve a ball that is based, against any substantial opponent anyway. In my opinion, then, fixing goal rewards is probably the best way to go, possibly make FlagReward higher to encourage more flagging with huge populations.

Anyway, now that the reset is said and done (though sooner than I would have guessed), it is quite clear that goal formula needs modification such that instead of a quadratic equation, you have something more like a square-root function, so that with higher and higher populations, the goal rewards will increase only slightly. I'm fairly certain this is only possible by modifying the soccer module, if it's possbile at out. Anyway, if the soccer rewards were fixed like that, it would make flagging more popular in general, without making balling completely worthless. In my opinion, of course. As for prox, it seems annoying to have l3 bombs have so much prox, but there's no avoiding it without screwing over lower level bombs out of having any prox at all. Prox for level 3 bombs and prox for level 1 bombs costs the same, also, unfortunately.

Who me? Read what? :\

If the prox setting is anymore than 2, it should be reduced, because $5k for 20 deaths DOES make javs cheap with an overload on prox. Thor-storm is balanced because even though it is annoying to have an area bombed to oblivion constantly, the thor-stormer is unprotected, can't buy shields, so you just go in with a super spider or such to solve your problem. On a technical note: there is one proximity setting for all bombs. Thors count as level 4 proximity bombs when determining area-of-effect and proximity. If the prox of some ships could be decreased while others remained the same, that might be good, but it just can't happen. In my opinion, bouncing bomb damage percentage needs to be reduced from whatever it is to 1000.

My understanding is that there is a setting to disable ball-killing-in-safe, but it either does not work or is not implemented because then people intentionally holding the ball would be safe. You don't want people holding the ball to grab on to safe like all of the other newbies do already, so you have to make them vulnerable. This comes at the cost of having people who don't spec when they go AFK vulnerable to laming as well. On that note, just spec instead of sitting in the safe..

Without shields?

Well, I have not been through a reset in HS yet, being the newbie that I am, so I don't know how often they occur.

Depends on which definition of newbie you're using.

Uh huh? Sounds just like one of those random database incidents which I know little about.

What about those college freshmen/sophomores who think they're so good?

In my opinion, we need more cool things poor people can afford and fewer cool things we'll be able to afford in 6 months.

Or maybe they're just there to point out what we're looking at.

Indeed, I find myself voting STFY a lot because the other's aren't quite right.

You seem to forget that you don't decide how your name is pronounced. Only how it's spelled.

That's not a Y. It appears to be a Y because your inferior human brain is susceptible to illusions. You'll never know what character it really is.

You're not allowed to take a break. Back to work!

I'm not crying/whining, I'm just pointing out certain facts.

It'd be awesome to have an official HS flag-vicory music, except the download is large enough as it is. Some people still use dial-up (not I, but I know quite a few.)

The current JP system has it's pros and cons. Tough call which outweighs which. Although, why was it changed in the first place?

Then you get tons of alternate accounts to get you tons of easy money, scar. Duh. Ooh, now powerballs don't use flag settings. My idea dominates HS!

Not all of us are so lucky.

Char, maybe it's easy for you to slip by people, but I doubt you can successfully against a team of 5 all by yourself all of the time, even with shields. By the way, many of us can't afford shields.

Indeed, there is no reason to use any ship except a jav (unless yours isn't maxed) for your thorstorm. Then again, if you can even afford a thorstorm, you probably have a maxed jav.

The only concern would be having the teams be fair, and being available to everyone. 100k fee is ridiculous, unless it's per team. --edited for clarification

Well, i know shrapnel damage is a percentage of the equivalent level bullet damage. So, they're essentially bullets that spawn from bombs. So that's why I made that !@#$%^&*umption. However, if shrapnel life time can be decreased without bullet's life time being decreased, that would significantly and fairly nerf shrapnel.