Gather is back!

my 2 cents
I'd try to avoid or veto too flattish maps, what I've seen sometimes that sucked was
baseTower______Towerbase
the mid part is noman's land and any pushing without tunneling means losing more tickets.

And perhaps a bit less of stone underground, or more located, as it provokes builders tunneling, getting a shitload of stone and spaming stone doors down there. I know it'sa valid tactic, but I think it's a bit lame and does not recquire much teamwork.

 

An easy fix for that surly would be to keep builders and just disallow building/repairs after the timer expires. Sure you can mine, etc. but only for cata ammo, tramps, and the like.

 

Also, you won't be able to get past a well-built tower with people camping in it unless you have money or a battle builder. You can't get money if the people are camping because you can't do damage, so you'd have to build to get money. So without builders, I think stalemates would last even longer because the majority of the time, there aren't enough coins to go around, so people would just camp in their towers.

 

Mmm. Just thinking about battle building, if builders can't place anything then they're actually a lot less useful. :/ Perhaps, in that case, having a slow sweep coming from either side forcing people into the middle (as per @Geti's idea) would actually be the best solution.

It would certainly make "claiming the middle ground" (which everyone talks about but often never happens) a much, much higher priority-- bc, as the sweep forces people to abandon their bases on the map sides, those who fought to claim + fortify the middle will retain a massive advantage over those who were lazy buggers and let the other side take the offensive.

Which, tbh, sounds good. If your side has played well and managed to claim the middle then it seems only fair that you should have the advantage during sudden death.

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So, @Skinney, I hope you're paying attention. I'm going to be a terrible person and speak for everyone, without their permission, and say what we want: on expiration of a timer we want sudden death with slow red-zones sweeping in from either end of the map to force a conclusion in the middle. Okay? Good. We'll expect it next week.

 

I will then disagree, timers are at worst the lesser evil to tickets. personally i dont mind them much.

 

i.e. if you allow the other guy to build some colossal phallic-replacement in the middle of the map then you damn well deserve to lose. Generally it's kinda hard to build anything "impenetrable" in the middle of the map unless the enemy decides to sit back and allow it to happen.

That said:

I have to agree that sometimes trying to hold out on 0 tickets until the timer runs out can be pretty exciting-- but then sometimes the other team also runs out of tickets with minutes to go on the clock and its a fracking snooze-fest.

 

I know.

Just felt the need to address the "all we need is tickets+timer" before someone actually took it seriously.