Game mode Idea: Tower Race

I'm planning on nerfing ladders quite at bit, so people can start making creative designs. I'm also going to look into fixing the "next map" bug and the fact that archers can't always use their grappling hook.

 

I managed to get a game in and this is pretty interesting. Having the ideal tower building so close to the opponents ideal building location whoever starts building there tower highest first basically gets instant access to the opponents base via shield gliding knights. Also because height is more important than thickness of the walls it makes archer bomb arrows so much more devastating.

Other than ladder spam and most players not really having a clue how to play its looking good.

The zero spawn timer makes camping impossible and the chasm in the middle has made for some hilarious shenanigans.

 

yeah- nerfing ladders would be good, the games just devolve into ladder spam at beginning and then victory music. If possible make it so a good base to your tower is more important than pure speed.

 

Look what i found (After a few hours of folder foolishness)!

Code:

    {  // ladder
        BuildBlock b( 0, "ladder", "$ladder$",
                        "Ladder\nAnyone can climb it" );
        AddRequirement( b.reqs, "blob", "mat_wood", "Wood", 10 );
        blocks.push_back( b );
    }

I found this in CommonBuilderBlocks.as (Among all other blocks). I may either increase the cost or remove it completely. How would you like it configured?
Also here's what I've been working on recently.


Edit:

New map added. Also ladders now cost 50 (five times more) wood.

 

Increase the cost. The ladder is still a valuable tool we want to reduce spam. If this doesn't work then probably should get rid of it completely.

 

well the ladder is the only thing that let's you get into the flag room if you didn't build your tower directly underneath it.

 

I really like that idea of a map with no resources because you could make the map super tiny and based on how many resources builders get at the tent basically controls how slow or fast a game can progress. This idea in itself could easily half the time a game would take purely because you don't have to take time to harvest resources (with proper tunnel transit). It would also make it much faster paced it would be interesting to see how or if this would work.

 

To how much? 80 wood? What other items/building/blocks should be balanced?
@Shambls what's your username (not to be confused with nickname)? We need more admins on the server to prevent tower grief. I already found someone by the name @tobz789 to help me out, but he's in the exact same timezone as myself.

Edit: Well the server is down due to a new KAG update. Will fix later when i get the time (In roughly 6-7 hours, not the best timing.)

 

May I be admin? If you want I'll write an application