Goonhub
05-26-2021, 12:01 PM
Aight... so I've full observed and recorded one round then partially played another so here's my list of things...
First, gotta figure out a way to balance pistols vs. pod weapons if you want the meta to be fighting inside actual pods. Right now it's exit pod and shoot. Maybe give pods ballistics and increase pod resistance to energy weapons? Not sure.
Second, mining ends up being halfassed and completely borked. One of the issues I've seen is players who are either trolling or don't know better emptying mining fabs completely of important materials. Maybe have all fabs on the main station pull from the same pool of materials? Or give all fabs a slowly regenerating pool of some basic materials(borhum/claretine/molitz/cotton).
Third, the pod paint schemes create situations that are just way too confusing. Either add some sort of transponder that clearly labels the origin of a pod as NT/Syndicate or just get rid of non-team specific paint jobs on pods.
Fourth, beacons need to be indestructible... period. Otherwise every round is going to turn into grab point and destroy beacon. Having them down severely limits the scope of combat as teams just aren't likely to be organized enough to travel long distances in a coordinated manner.
Fifth, the rounds are clearly dragging a bit. I'd suggest either increasing point decay as a function of total minutes already played. OR, and this is a bit of a wild idea, a hail mary of some sorts perhaps in the form of a fourth control point with a special weapon that only activates at 30 minute intervals that destroys one of the base dishes when fired. The new control point would not directly contribute to point decay in the same way as the other three points and would ideally precipitate a large fight every half hour when an alert was given that it was open to be captured.
Sixth, I didn't witness this myself but apparently getting stranded is an issue for the podless. So how about a PDA program that sends the player back to their main base? It would need an action bar of at least ten seconds to prevent folks from just using it to run away.
First, gotta figure out a way to balance pistols vs. pod weapons if you want the meta to be fighting inside actual pods. Right now it's exit pod and shoot. Maybe give pods ballistics and increase pod resistance to energy weapons? Not sure.
Second, mining ends up being halfassed and completely borked. One of the issues I've seen is players who are either trolling or don't know better emptying mining fabs completely of important materials. Maybe have all fabs on the main station pull from the same pool of materials? Or give all fabs a slowly regenerating pool of some basic materials(borhum/claretine/molitz/cotton).
Third, the pod paint schemes create situations that are just way too confusing. Either add some sort of transponder that clearly labels the origin of a pod as NT/Syndicate or just get rid of non-team specific paint jobs on pods.
Fourth, beacons need to be indestructible... period. Otherwise every round is going to turn into grab point and destroy beacon. Having them down severely limits the scope of combat as teams just aren't likely to be organized enough to travel long distances in a coordinated manner.
Fifth, the rounds are clearly dragging a bit. I'd suggest either increasing point decay as a function of total minutes already played. OR, and this is a bit of a wild idea, a hail mary of some sorts perhaps in the form of a fourth control point with a special weapon that only activates at 30 minute intervals that destroys one of the base dishes when fired. The new control point would not directly contribute to point decay in the same way as the other three points and would ideally precipitate a large fight every half hour when an alert was given that it was open to be captured.
Sixth, I didn't witness this myself but apparently getting stranded is an issue for the podless. So how about a PDA program that sends the player back to their main base? It would need an action bar of at least ten seconds to prevent folks from just using it to run away.