Item retiring?

[got bounty?]

Perhaps everyonce in awhile we should retire items on the ?buy list and retired them. Then we could add new items with the ?buy list getting too big. After awhile we can either bring the retired items back or simply abandon it altogether.

 

 

 

I think this proposal would help weasel out the best sets possible for HyperSpace and get rid of the useless ones noone uses because it sucks.

 

ie:

 

1. Take away plasma cannon. (Retired Item)

 

2. Add new gun. (Mix and match bullet delay, bullet energy, multifire option, bounce option, gun level to create a new gun)

 

3. After a few weeks intiate an arena vote: something along the lines of "Do you want to keep (new gun name) or change to the old one?" and people would type !vote yes or !vote no.

 

4. Bring back the most popular gun for Hyperspace.

[got bounty?]

Then we could test everyone's idea's as well.

[cdrom]

good idea, but i dont think plasma is retired, ive just seen an outbreak of them

[Deathmonger]

Plasma's problem is it is does 10% less damage/sec and 30-35% less damage/energy than pulse/flech, for 20% more damage when a bullet does hit. Or, you get 20% more damage for 45% more energy cost. Then there's its little brother shrap booster, which is suckier but redundant, i.e. giving javs plasma outright wouldn't have been unbalancing imo.

 

I think to fix Plasma you'd either need to drop its energy cost to about 50-55, or increase its damage to 300 or so. These numbers are in line with the progression from red->yellow, but yellow->blue is very unfavorable atm.

[BlueWyvern]

... I like plasma...

[cdrom]

plasma=useful, if u know how to use it