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cam- what about a timer that, when expired, just initiated a sudden death mode (i.e. suddenly everyone finds themselves in a "0 tickets" situation)? It would mean people don't have a reason to get all campy during the majority of the game, and at the end you still get the high-stakes climatic showdown of people making desperate final charges or heroic last stands.

@Vidar liked the idea. Therefore you should do it. Bc it is the will of God...

 

But if there's no resolution before the timer ends then it's all kinda... flaccid. Which is why the God-willed idea of a sudden death mode is actually not a terrible idea; bc then people will rush and push to try and gain as much territory in the final minutes before death becomes permanent-- and even if they don't managed to get a cap before the timer expires the game doesn't arbitrarily finish, it just becomes really high-stakes.

 

Re: sudden death - a slow slow sweep across the map forcing an engagement could be for the best, as it is we see a lot of camping (for like 10+ minutes most games) and inaction once tickets are out if one team doesn't push (and they often dont). Siege is a nice stale-breaker but requires a team defending it and $$$ which is harder to get with low builder income and no build phase.

 

Yes, that would be even better again (meaning that people have a choice of winning on their own terms prior to SD, or risking the tossup); I guess I was just suggesting something that could be done without too much trouble using the code we already have (unless you're volunteering, Geti? Huehuehue. ).

 

If you DO add a "sweeper" it would be awesome if you could make it somehow collapse or destroy the blocks on the edges so that the last people were left on a gradually shrinking floating island

 

afaik skinney has been working on a sweeping "kill zone", not sure if it's for this purpose or not though :)

 

No builders on sudden death is an interesting idea actually, should be tested out for sure. Could assign random military class or warp them back to tent and not let them leave on timer out or tickets out

 

My only problem with this is how useless catapults would become, since it would be impossible to resupply them unless you had some stone in your storage. But to have that excess of stone would mean you didn't use it in the first place which would mean your tower would be a bit flimsier.

 

So? Do you need a catapult to down towers in a land with no builders repairing them? Does anyone actually "move up" due to catapults, or do they just put them on towers and pop the wheels off? Currently they're just stalemate machines 99% of the time, I dont think their absence in the endgame would be felt :^)