Breaking Fire Arrows

Since there is a time delay on fire arrows actually setting blocks ablaze and water buckets are never used, I thought having the ability to break fire arrows would be a nice mechanic.

There is about a 3 second delay before the arrow actually sets the blocks on fire which gives just enough time for some players to be able to break it before it spread, however, currently you cannot because the mechanic of breaking arrows isn't in the game.

Pretty basic concept.
No cons to adding it.
Simple to implement.

Thoughts?

 

anything to avoid that...

 

Only builder should be able to break it.

 

Yes I do.

Arrows are fired and land on vertical towers most of the time. To break it would mean hoping off of a tower and swinging your slice / jab just right.

Late game, many buildings are made out of wood, and when that happens, fires are almost impossible to stop. Even if there are buckets on a map, not all maps have water. That means, no matter what, that building is going to burn to the ground.

Do you even think for ahead enough before posting retarded gifs and breaking your own goddamn rules?

And I quote:

And why you decide to move it to "balance" is beyond fucking me considering that has nothing to do with balance nor was the word "balance" even once used.

Great admin work.

 

Make fire arrows completely useless if there's one competent Knight anywhere near the structure you're trying to burn? Make Archers' anti-wood utility (one of their greatest abilities) incredibly easy to stop? Make Knights able to counteract yet another thing?

Not even close to a good idea.

 

1. Most players don't do that. And even then, what happens when 1 stone block breaks away? Oh yeah. Now the entire structure can burn to the ground and leave an entire block opening that now can't be replaced since the rest of the stone structure is still intact. OH WAIT! Guess you didn't think of that.

2. Your argument has so much flawed logic it is amazing. You say that if a team is out of stone, they will have already lost. But you seem to forget that maps are symmetrical. Once one side runs out of resources, the other side is likely to be running low as well.
---- Again, relating back to the fact that both teams have an even amount of resources. And if it has gotten to the point where there is that low of an amount of stone, that means the game has lasted a long time, and if the game has lasted a long time, the team's skill levels are pretty equal.
-----So if there is a map problem, then there is sure a hell of a lot of them. And it isn't "in essence" the same as Lots of gold making tunnels OP. It is no where even close.
----------If both teams have the ability to break arrows, the better team wins. Especially since it takes a bit more skill and timing to hit a single arrow off a vertical structure within seconds of it hitting it compared to firing a arrow at a giant wooden structure.

3. Balance means that changes must be made to A because of B. Example: Archer must be buffed to BALANCE the Knight buff. Balance means there is problem that must be changed. AS IS, THE GAME IS FINE. MY OPINION WAS THAT, AFTER DISCUSSION, WHICH IS WHAT SUGGESTIONS ARE FOR, DETERMINING IF ADDING THIS MECHANIC WOULD MAKE THE GAME BETTER OR WORSE.

4. Like I have any respect for you anyways. You don't take jack shit seriously and have essentially become the same as BlueLuigi. You made rules. You punish those for not following them. Then you break them and insult others for pointing it out that you have done so. It is a flawless system really.



Congratz!

 

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Watching these two titans duke it out is a sight to see

 

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The mechanic of retrieving/destroying arrows is already in the game, archers can retrieve/destroy arrows that are shot into blocks. This works exactly the same for fire arrows, archers can cancel them from spreading by right clicking while next to the fire arrow (before it sets a light). If you're quick enough you can retrieve/destroy the arrow and stop fire from spreading.
I tested this in my sandbox server earlier and it works good if you don't have any water arrows on you. Although this is only available to the archer class.

 

That's strange, I was an archer on the blue team and I got another player on the red team (using commands) to shoot a fire arrow at a wooden wall I made. If you're quick enough you should be able to right click on the fire arrow when you are next to it so you destroy it before it starts a fire.

 

Alternately,

Also,
> Claiming it takes skill to slash an immobile arrow off a wall when arrow slashing was removed because too many moving arrows were being slashed into nonexistence

 

This shit is funny to read

 

I mean this suggestion is pretty awful as fire arrows are already borderline useless (even in lategame, as pubs have discovered platforms).
Also there's multitude of ways for each class to stop fire (picking arrows, bombing walls, buckets, water bombs and arrows, putting stone over wood etc.)
But sure, I'd love to choke a team for 50 minutes more now since a monkey with a netbook could stop the only potential way of killing wood forts.


i removed unnecessary swears and derogatory terms from the post

 

A arrow in a vertical tower is harder to get to in a limited time frame than actually firing the arrow itself.

You are putting words in my mouth. I never said it takes skill to do so I said it takes MORE skill to do so.

And comparing arrow slashing to this is completely stupid. An arrow in the air can be broken just by spamming jab. Most of the time you didn't even mean to hit the arrow out of the air. With this, you are hitting a arrow that has already landed that is attached to a vertical ledge you cant get to with ease, and do so within 3 seconds or so.

If this were added, you still wouldn't be able to break arrows as the are flying through the air, only once they stop moving.

 

"Yes!" the community collectively cried out "lets fuck builder over more!" as the ecstasy of the act washed over their body's they began to frolick through the battle field stomping past the nerfed builders who were in tears.