Rechargable Bricks

[Sharpflame]

Do you want bricks to be rechargable?

 

What this means is that, like Antideath, you can get a free item or privilege after a timer has ended. With Antideath, every few minutes or so you can get a respawn at the location you died at. Then you have to wait for the timer to end.

 

With rechargable bricks, you can buy your brick mount, and then buy your brick. On ?iteminfo Long Brick, you see things like "brickcooldown: +10000", this way, you are prized a brick when you spawn IF the timer is up. When you go and use that brick, the timer resets. I'd say that a 5 minute long timer would be appropriate.

 

"Why?"

Because bricks are not used enough. Because bricks are currently a waste of money. Because it is cool this way. With this setup being used, bricks do not get spammed because one player can not use more than one in a set time limit. Also, if a brick doesn't work out right, you didn't waste money, only your time. Try again when your brick is recharged.

 

 

 

Please post opinions, and post why you voted what you did.

[Raw-Tard]

Very nice imo, but have u thought about what kind of brick would it be? long? wide? etc. 5 min's is a nice time imo. not too too too long but not too short.

[Sharpflame]

Very nice imo, but have u thought about what kind of brick would it be? long? wide? etc. 5 min's is a nice time imo. not too too too long but not too short.

 

 

Possibly both or more. If someone would rather use bricks more often, they'd have to choose a basic brick over Long brick. Long brick would probably deserve a longer timer, about 6-8 minutes. Cage 10 min. etc.

[Raw-Tard]

nice. Gl i'm sure ppl will like it.

[s-abbas]

make it so that u buy it.

like u buy wide brick.. then every 5minutes wide brick comes up

or u buy a different kind... or cage brick... and then every 5min cage brick comes up

[Sharpflame]

make it so that u buy it.

like u buy wide brick.. then every 5minutes wide brick comes up

or u buy a different kind... or cage brick... and then every 5min cage brick comes up

 

 

Of course you have to buy it...

[Unix]

Nice idea, then you can add a few different kind of bricks to it too.

 

Instead of omnifield, omnibrick, so it's a brick that turns into any other brick, probably would be a sig though at the same time since it's so powerful and useful.

[Gar]

I love this idea. I have never and will never use a brick solely because of their current cost.

 

Energy Infusion is ridiculously expensive.

[Matrim Cauthon]

energy infusion costs 125$...thats like an ammo pack, if u could afford to buy ammo packs, how do u not afford to buy ei?

[Sharpflame]

energy infusion costs 125$...thats like an ammo pack, if u could afford to buy ammo packs, how do u not afford to buy ei?

 

Ammo packs are worth $100. Energy Infusion is worthless.

[Matrim Cauthon]

an ei used properly can save your high bty, its useful(though ei is mostly used against thorstorms and burst spammers, since thors are less now, and bursts kill too fast now, ei might be actually worthless, and btw did aphasic burst protection just get nerfed?)

[vetta64]

if you mix ei with ad on, or ei for btying, that is something special when you need it, well worth 125 at the right time

[Gar]

Exactly... EI needs 'the right time', meanwhile a mount sits useless forever.

[linger]

ei with sfs current thing would be hot like it was in the old days where it would respown after death

[9vgnc3eZ01]

This is a good idea. It should be implemented. Enough said from me.

[Pity.]

Brickwarp! Brickwarp! Brickwarp!

[Exiili]

Yes please. Excellent idea.

[Matrim Cauthon]

brick lasts so long, my port ran out before a brick ran out

[Unix]

60 secs for a port - Bricks last about 20 secs at most, probably even less.

 

Just curious, who voted no and didnt say why?

[Gar]

Random thought: does the existence of energy infusion mean bricks can have certain effects on your ship other than maxing your energy? If so, what kind of effects?

[Sharpflame]

Random thought: does the existence of energy infusion mean bricks can have certain effects on your ship other than maxing your energy? If so, what kind of effects?

 

+1 bounty ftw.

[Unix]

How come no one has said why rechargeable bricks would be bad O_o

[Gar]

+1 bounty ftw.

Actually, I was thinking of a brick item that made your maxspeed 0 for 10 seconds... meaning you can't move at all, but you also can't be repelled. That could be very interesting. It could help open up a new role for ships, a true 'defender' rather than simply a 'reverse rusher' like we have now. This could be continued with other additions.

Edited May 20, 2008 by Gar

[Dr Brain]

Changing clientset settings, like maxspeed, quickly isn't practical (the real reason for the shipchange delay).

[QUAX]

Rechargable bricks might cause flag games to last longer and the current push is to shorten flag games.