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Title: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Teeth on September 01, 2011, 12:34:17 pm
In my opinion ladders, should be removed from battle. Roofcamping is a horror that plagues every round. Maybe archers should be buffed if they are unable to survive the regular battlefield with the dangers of cav, but the camping on the roof is just a too safe position for them. Even worse, rounds often get delayed because of a pack of ranged cowering on the roof.

I'm all for the implementation of deployable stakes to replace ladders in battlefield.

Please discuss this.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: ArysOakheart on September 01, 2011, 06:04:37 pm
Well you have to realize all the positions archers would normally take that are unavailable in game. Would you think it fair to allow them to climb trees? Archers regularly would climb trees if and where they could, for that would be excellent protection against you full plate leaping giant two handed poleaxe swinging beasts. I think giving pull plate giant poleaxe wielding troops the ability to jump from one roof to another, evens it up just enough.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Patoson on September 01, 2011, 07:20:45 pm
I find it really unrealistic to see archers stand on a roof that has a 45º angle slope or more and not slip and fall down. I hate camping on flat roofs too anyway.

Those who claim archers need a roof to kill, just watch Chase nowadays. I played side by side with him a few hours back and he got a score of 20-4 or so, and he killed them all while standing on the ground. End of story.

Edit: I think the devs should also modify the existing maps where roofs can be reached without ladders, and those where there are ladders already built in with the map, so roof camping is erradicated once and for all.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Siiem on September 01, 2011, 08:17:01 pm
Make it happen!
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Nehvar on September 01, 2011, 08:30:52 pm
Even though I often carry a ladder for friendly archers I completely agree.  We don't need access to ladders in battle.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: chadz on September 01, 2011, 08:32:18 pm
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Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Teeth on September 01, 2011, 08:36:45 pm
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Not entirely sure I get what this means
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: chadz on September 01, 2011, 08:41:45 pm
means i see replies under "new replies".
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Glyph on September 01, 2011, 08:44:23 pm
so he's intreged by it.


anyway, it's a good ieda, no more my old friendchers camping unreachable roofs, will increase the amount of battle battle-archers, like Tenne, which is a good thing imo, it is more realsitic too.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Tears of Destiny on September 01, 2011, 08:46:10 pm
Ladders should only be removed if absolutely every single map is heavily regulated where every accessable elevated spot has at least two paths to it, preferably three, and the Master of the Field spawns are placed by the map maker to spawn in sane location on the map and not retarded/random spots. Every place that is not meant to be accessed should have an invisible wall.

Otherwise, keep them.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: partyboy on September 01, 2011, 09:14:50 pm
hey let's see how boring we can make this game, remove horses too
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Teeth on September 01, 2011, 09:21:02 pm
Ladders should only be removed if absolutely every single map is heavily regulated where every accessable elevated spot has at least two paths to it, preferably three, and the Master of the Field spawns are placed by the map maker to spawn in sane location on the map and not retarded/random spots. Every place that is not meant to be accessed should have an invisible wall.

Otherwise, keep them.
Gave this some thought. Ladders are currently mostly used to create accessable elevated spots with only one path to it. Rarely to create a second path to a location with already one path to it. Besides, isn't it better to let map makers decide where good accesable elevated spots are than the kill hungry players?

Map makers will have an easier time making maps when ladders are removed, because they dont have to worry about players getting up everywhere. They have more control on how the map should be played cause they can create the high spots and balance the map out, without artificial high spots throwing off the balance. Invisible walls everywhere will be much less needed than with ladders cause player movement freedom is essentially restricted.

In all my hundreds of hours of cRPG, I haven't seen much retarded flags, can't recall any. Even if they came in retarded unreachable spots, having ladders in battle wouldnt make a difference, cause noone carries around a heavy ladder on his back until the end of the round. If the flag spawns funny, youre doomed anyway.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Dezilagel on September 01, 2011, 09:44:26 pm
Agree with Tears here, archers firing from an elevated position is a natural part of the game, but when you can't get to them... I dunno, but I just find it very frustrating.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Torost on September 01, 2011, 09:59:00 pm
The maps often not built with ranged in mind, flat maps with large open spaces. Ranged needs to get elevation to work efficiently. After the series of nerfs it is very hard to survive and be useful on ground level. It takes so long to draw, release,slow missilespeed.
Low armour + 0slot meleeweapon no 1handwpf makes it extremly hard to do anything in melee.
I have no love for the run,jump,draw,turn kiting,so I do not practice it.
But the kiting and ladders is the only way for archers to still be somewhat effective.
On foot archers get slaughtered.

I voted remove ladders , maybe that will bring to light how gimped archery is.
Or a change in how scenes are made.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Brrrak on September 01, 2011, 10:15:12 pm
Gotta say, I'm a bumbling 2her, and I hate this idea.  Ladders add an entire new level (literally, you put up a ladder and a new level of the map is opened up to be played on) to the battle, and changes the dynamic from being what was solely intended by the map developers into a dynamic which at least gives the illusion of the freedom of choice to players (because we all know that ONE roof on that ONE desert map will be the only one camped).  Maybe sharply angled roofs are a bit iffy, simply because I'm not entirely sure myself if you can apply draw to a bow with enough force and not fall off, flat onto your face, and then get trampled by an elephant...but as it is, ladders are fine, and I say keep them in battle.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Christo on September 02, 2011, 04:16:37 am
Do it, many people won't miss them.

You have my vote on this.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Tot. on September 02, 2011, 04:25:39 am
Remove siege shields aswell, they hide behind them. And swords too. We now moved from "nerf x" to "remove x".

Oh, also - dont fix pikes. Not at all. Focus on removing ladders.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Thomek on September 02, 2011, 04:39:40 am
Ladders not ok, siege shields are.

Roofing makes the whole tactics and cooperation part more stupid. First things that happen is that archers run to some roof and the rest charge. There is no element of protecting archers, archers moving with the group etc.

Rather than buffing archers after removing ladders, I'd like to see a nerf of the no.1 archer killer. Cav. Preferably maneuverability and/or lance damage.

Archers get no second chance once they are 1 shotted, and stand a bad chance in a 1vs1.

Roofcamping are also the no1 most popular delaying method..  and probably represent a large amount of the bans and kicks.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Fatwalrus on September 02, 2011, 07:06:10 am
I would be disappointed if this happens.
On my 2H guy in battle I often use a ladder to flank an enemy or approach an archer spot from an unknown angle. Ladders are fun to use and they make the maps less predictable.

Battle is the -only- server my whole region (oceanic) can play on with <200 ping, which means battle is the only opportunity we have for using ladders or tactics. cRPG already seems very focused on large scale siege battle while forgetting about the <40 player servers. It's a little disappointing when any new gamemode or map is designed for large scale warfare and there is nothing new for the smaller playerbases.. but I am okay with it.

I understand that we aren't a priority but it would be a shame if you started taking things away from this group. On our server you get the occasional roof camper but they get votekicked if they do anything too annoying. If the ladder is destroyed the archer has to get down or be kicked (even if it's destroyed by attackers) It works well.. the archer gets the height advantage and cavalry immunity for a while but can't be a complete idiot.

I do have an archer character but that's not why I want to keep ladders, I shoot from the ground unless I'm being stampeded by cavalry or cant see past my teammates. You don't have the inventory slots to take a ladder as an archer anyway, so ironically the very same melee characters that complain about archers on roofs are the ones putting the ladders up for them.

It wont destroy my game if you remove them, but it removes variety and will make me bored of cRPG faster.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Civilian on September 02, 2011, 08:28:51 am
Ladders are fine. At least they don't ladderpult from the ground anymore.

I vote no.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: SchokoSchaf on September 02, 2011, 08:39:17 am
I've just played a whole generation as an archer and yesterday was the first time I really used some ladders, just before hitting lvl31. :D Guess the problem concentrates on bigger servers. If you remove them from the game, you'll just have more 2h spam zombie builds and less shielders.

I support Tears' suggetion - better build maps with elevated spots with 2 accesses.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: jellis on September 02, 2011, 08:41:26 am
This has probably been suggested before, but would it be possible to make ladders so that instead of destroying they just get knocked down, so they could be raised again? Knocked down ladders couldn't be moved, only re-raised to original position. This would keep roof campers reachable. Also, knocked down ladders shouldn't be obstacles as they would be indestructible (during a round).
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Glyph on September 02, 2011, 04:47:06 pm
This has probably been suggested before, but would it be possible to make ladders so that instead of destroying they just get knocked down, so they could be raised again? Knocked down ladders couldn't be moved, only re-raised to original position. This would keep roof campers reachable. Also, knocked down ladders shouldn't be obstacles as they would be indestructible (during a round).
good idea, only abusable by knocking them down on certain places so cav get stopped by it, but still better than the current ladder system.
and once again, ToD is right... damn you are way to right! :)
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Banok on September 02, 2011, 06:22:27 pm
/signed but...

problem is some maps you need ladders to deal with the campers. its a vicious cycle. if you remove ladders plz edit the maps.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Glyph on September 02, 2011, 06:26:48 pm
/signed but...

problem is some maps you need ladders to deal with the campers. its a vicious cycle. if you remove ladders plz edit the maps.
, but without ladders, there wont be any camping spots, and if you put a ladder on a house which is already accesable via another way, it gets chopped down in a second, so that's not true.
but battle archers were much more commen than those stupid camping mothe......(you get my point).
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Adam_Bomb on September 02, 2011, 07:40:06 pm
Yeah great idea! Lets get rid of ladders! While we are at it, lets get rid of all the new weapons, leveling up, heirlooms, etc that make this mod so fun and different.  We'll have to come up with a new name for it though...Ew, I got it, we'll call it Native! Great ideas guys, can't wait to find a different game to play when all the melee and cav whiners get their way.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: SPQR on September 02, 2011, 07:43:26 pm
Guess what: archers will be using ladders to get on rooftop in strategus battles too.

Its good practice to learn how to deal with it.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Adam_Bomb on September 02, 2011, 07:47:09 pm
Guess what: archers will be using ladders to get on rooftop in strategus battles too.

Its good practice to learn how to deal with it.

No! you should never have to learn how to deal with someone else's tactics, just cry to the devs to get those tactics banned/nerfed/removed.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Tears of Destiny on September 02, 2011, 07:57:10 pm
No! you should never have to learn how to deal with someone else's tactics, just cry to the devs to get those tactics banned/nerfed/removed.

Dis guy... Dis guy right here knows what he is talkin' 'bout. We should listen to dis guy here.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Fartface on September 02, 2011, 11:09:22 pm
hmm i think the ladders are good the way they are.
if u give every roof an ladder which cant be destroyed but has to be deployed that wil lead to even more camping since there not in an unreachable place then.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: jemoeder on September 03, 2011, 12:25:49 am
Damn ladders should be banned in normal battle and siege. Players may need to adjust their rambo running into battle style so they can take advantage of the archers in their team but the ladders as it stands now are just crazy. 10 dudes on a roof shooting from close range at people unhindered and none can though them. In Siege they also suck. Defenders can only win by creating a bottleneck where they can hold the enemy. Now there is just a huge ladder spam and no place is safe for defenders and the walls are actually a disadvantage often because attackers tend to jump on you from places you cant see. 
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Christo on September 03, 2011, 10:59:43 am
Indeed.

Most of the ranged gets to a well protected roof in 30-40 seconds, you have no time to counter because they destroy the damned ladder, and even if they leave it on, it's just a death trap.

Remove them, for sanity's sake.

Thank you.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: OttomanSniper on September 03, 2011, 12:52:12 pm
OK, delete ladders but add acrobatics. (If u want realism)

We can climb some roofs use our hands. Its realistic. We cant crouch and u talk about realism.

Archery already nerfed 6 time and HORSE ARCHERY end! Archers last option is roofs. U want easy kills.

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ranged cowering on the roof

We dont fear 2 handers, u fear archers. We cant use heavy armor or ironflesh build and now we cant use horse because bows dont good on horseback. If u want sandbox game pls play with dummy bots. I have 8 power draw, +3 horn bow, +3 bodkin BUT cant kill head shots. All like terminator, arrow enter brain from eye but chracter return.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Chagan_Arslan on September 03, 2011, 01:10:28 pm
OK, delete ladders but add acrobatics. (If u want realism)

We can climb some roofs use our hands. Its realistic. We cant crouch and u talk about realism.

and while we talk about realism, add option to set the building on fire to torches, so we can somehow get them off these roofs
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Osiris on September 03, 2011, 03:25:05 pm
I agree. most rounds there are 2 sets of roof camping archers. a melee clusterfuck and cav riding round wondering who they are supposed to attack.
when one side wins the melee its just waiting for the roof campers to get down. it is boring!

keep ladders in siege sure but why do we need them in battle?



and please dont just say get a shield :/ the game isnt shield vs archer :D
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: OttomanSniper on September 03, 2011, 03:43:03 pm
Cavs eat archers at dinner.

Why vote ? I think only archers pick "no". 2 handers and cavs like this poll because no one say "no" for more kill.

Any one see 40-5 ratio archer ? But i see 40-5 ratio 2h and cav. No ladder = 50-5 ratio cav and 2h.

I say again, archery nerfed enoughly, stop crying. Bow and arrow not toy (but now like toy) its weapon.

If u hate archers suggest "no ranged servers" but pls dont suggest nerf.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Teeth on September 03, 2011, 05:17:41 pm
Also, to counter the get a shield argument. When you are a 2h, you can't use your shield and attack simultaneously. A lot of the getting hit by ranged happens while youre in a melee fight. Also using that shield makes you vulnerable to suprises, cause when you holster it you get hit.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Adam_Bomb on September 03, 2011, 05:56:45 pm
U want easy kills.

This is what it comes down to. They hate getting shot and want ranged to be easy prey. Lets not pretend there are nearly as many ladders as there were before the slot patch. Ranged can't bring there own anymore if they still want to shoot. The ability to take the high ground adds another layer of strategy to the game and it will be a sad day when/if these folks get their way.  Sometimes I think some people would rather every map just be a big field where everyone takes a 2 hander and runs at eachother.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Osiris on September 03, 2011, 06:07:52 pm
its nothing to do with easy kills. 4-5 archers in a group on the ground isnt an easy kill. what we want to do is PLAY crpg. not spend the entire round hiding and watching 2 massive groups of ranged players camping on a couple of roofs
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Adam_Bomb on September 03, 2011, 06:11:49 pm
its nothing to do with easy kills. 4-5 archers in a group on the ground isnt an easy kill. what we want to do is PLAY crpg. not spend the entire round hiding and watching 2 massive groups of ranged players camping on a couple of roofs

So you spend the entirety of every round just hiding from ranged?  Either BS or you need some better tactics my friend...
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Tzar on September 03, 2011, 06:17:24 pm
Ladders have nothing to add on battle servers besides turning the game into a mediaval zombie shooter for the legolass wannabe´s

I dont understand why the majority of you archers dont go play left for dead 2 or something..  :arrow: http://www.l4d.com/game.html
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: OttomanSniper on September 03, 2011, 06:29:05 pm
Ladders add strategy. This is not zombie kill game, its strategy game. "roof delaying" already banned in rules and admins kick or ban delayers.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Tzar on September 03, 2011, 06:33:19 pm
Ladders add strategy. This is not zombie kill game, its strategy game. "roof delaying" already banned in rules and admins kick or ban delayers.

Being unable fight back makes it a zombie shooter.

Remove ladders from battle all ready.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Adam_Bomb on September 03, 2011, 06:35:08 pm
Being unable fight back makes it a zombie shooter.

Remove ladders from battle all ready.

You're probably one of those guys who breaks the ladder so you can complain about not being able to get up there
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: OttomanSniper on September 03, 2011, 06:40:04 pm
Being unable fight back makes it a zombie shooter.

Remove ladders from battle all ready.

Ok, if 2 handers dont want ladders my deal is :

- Remove ladders from battle

- Give back archer damage, archer missile speed and horse archery.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Momo on September 03, 2011, 08:21:37 pm
In my opinion, ladders should be removed. I am sick of the 24/7 roofcamping on the servers. The archers are getting well defended positions in seconds, (as Christo pointed out). The rest of the team charges, because of this, most of the people are going solo, and that's it, you have a totally fail team, and your team loses. The other one is that when everyone camps the roof (inf, and cav too)which is the biggest überWTF. There are a lot of maps with reachable roofs, so you don't need ladders for those. Of course, the campers are going to exploit those in the future, but at least they can't camp EVERY roof. So I vote yes.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: OttomanSniper on September 03, 2011, 09:40:12 pm
Dont lose time archery nerfing, archery already nerfed 6 time. Learn block, i even kill u in duel with 0 wpf...
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Glyph on September 03, 2011, 09:44:59 pm
Dont lose time archery nerfing, archery already nerfed 6 time. Learn block, i even kill u in duel with 0 wpf...
my old friend chers don't have a saying in anything, so stfu
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Adam_Bomb on September 03, 2011, 09:46:59 pm
my old friend chers don't have a saying in anything, so stfu

Oh a cav player who wants ranged down on the ground, how surprising...stfu yourself
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Glyph on September 03, 2011, 09:49:47 pm
my old friend chers don't have a saying in anything, so stfu
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Oh a cav player wanting ranged down on the ground, how surprising...stfu yourself
i want them off the roof, i don't want them nerfed. i get killed a lot by people like tenne. atleast i can accept getting killed by someone who is vunrable himself. but not by someone who doesn't have any kind of threat against him.

and fail quoting from you, learn to find the quote button.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Adam_Bomb on September 03, 2011, 09:51:55 pm
cav have a major upper hand on the ground, its not an even playing field
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: OttomanSniper on September 03, 2011, 09:54:11 pm
my old friend chers don't have a saying in anything, so stfu

I dont say no, but if no ladder i want horse archery back. What do u think about my idea cavalary ? Do u like horse archers ?
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Glyph on September 03, 2011, 09:56:07 pm
cav have a major upper hand on the ground, its not an even playing field
with reasonable skill you can kill cav with 1handed, 2handed, poles, bows, xbows and throwing weapons. roofcampers can only be killed by other ranged, and than it's still 50-50 win-lose chance. if a guy with an arbalest is shooting at you, when you try to charge, he shoots your horse in the head, you fall on the ground, and he runs away with his 8 ath.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Glyph on September 03, 2011, 09:57:29 pm
I dont say no, but if no ladder i want horse archery back. What do u think about my idea cavalary ? Do u like horse archers ?
horse archery is still good at what they are designed to do, getting cav down from their horses, a HA can still run 3m behind me and slowly shoot 5 arrows at my horse till it's dead, what else do you want?
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: OttomanSniper on September 03, 2011, 10:06:27 pm
horse archery is still good at what they are designed to do, getting cav down from their horses, a HA can still run 3m behind me and slowly shoot 5 arrows at my horse till it's dead, what else do you want?

Horse archery is useless now because bow accuracy, missile speed and archery damage nerfed. Aim is verry large on horse.

Ladders remove from battle ok but i want remove ladders with archery nerfs. Ladder removing is an other nerf for archers but archery enoughly nerfed.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Momo on September 03, 2011, 10:21:49 pm
Let me demonstrate the problem with my epic drawing skillz.

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Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Micah on September 03, 2011, 10:26:29 pm
its not only archers but also crossbowers and even throwers sitting on roofs.
i dont agree with the overinterpretation saying, removing ladders from battle is just another archery nerf, there are enough elevated spots reachable on most (village) maps. persons arguing this way are exactly those that use ladders sololy for the purpose to reach an unaccessable roof and break the ladder afterwards. i believe thats not the way how gamemakers intended the game to be played.

another way to handle the problem would possibly be to make ladders unbreakable. how about that?
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Momo on September 03, 2011, 10:29:35 pm
its not only archers but also crossbowers and even throwers sitting on roofs.
i dont agree with the overinterpretation saying, removing ladders from battle is just another archery nerf, there are enough elevated spots reachable on most (village) maps. persons arguing this way are exactly those that use ladders sololy for the purpose to reach an unaccessable roof and break the ladder afterwards. i believe thats not the way how gamemakers intended the game to be played.

another way to handle the problem would possibly be to make ladders unbreakable. how about that?

I think that's a good idea, but it can be exploited, like blocking doors and entrances which is a pretty negative thing.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Teeth on September 03, 2011, 10:38:19 pm
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That's just epic, I love how you didn't fill the o's with the bucket.

Oh, also, I'm still convinced that ladders should be removed, but archery should have their nemesis nerfed, cav. I can't look at the scoreboard without seeing 8 cav players in the top ten, its just too easy to get kills.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: OttomanSniper on September 03, 2011, 10:40:53 pm
another way to handle the problem would possibly be to make ladders unbreakable. how about that?

Dave can block ways again. :D

Ladders can drop with "f" key. (But ladders must drop only ground, because archers can get on roof this ladders.)
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Momo on September 03, 2011, 11:03:35 pm
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That's just epic, I love how you didn't fill the o's with the bucket.

Oh, also, I'm still convinced that ladders should be removed, but archery should have their nemesis nerfed, cav. I can't look at the scoreboard without seeing 8 cav players in the top ten, its just too easy to get kills.


First, thanks, that really made me happy XD. Imo cavs are ok in terms of dmg (and they got angle nerfed so they need skill for getting kills(aim), BUT hitboxes are really fucked up), the problem is the horse itself. Just look at the arabian rocket, it's hilarious seriously. It reaches 300km/h in a milisecond, wtf, and it can do instant 90° turns. Armored horses have too much body armor. So I think, remove ladders, then rebalance horses, make the unarmored horses  slower(we need only speed and manuveur nerf), give them a small hp increase also make them a little cheaper. Armored horses should be a little cheaper too, but with less body armor because they are already slow. Then I think, the ranged dudes would be able to take them down without getting arabianrocketraped in 5 seconds after round start.

Edit: Also, when teamwork exists, there are always some dudes with long spear who watches over cavs.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Old_Sir_Agor on September 04, 2011, 01:44:54 am
fast every 2h and 1h+shield can take ladder with him, and then come for roofmonkeys, they all just greedy and dont spend money on it))
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Tears of Destiny on September 04, 2011, 03:33:04 am
Only reply #9 seemed reasonable, everything else just seems to be the usual "no u" arguements that everu alance discussion devolves into.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Glyph on September 04, 2011, 07:49:04 am
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That's just epic, I love how you didn't fill the o's with the bucket.

Oh, also, I'm still convinced that ladders should be removed, but archery should have their nemesis nerfed, cav. I can't look at the scoreboard without seeing 8 cav players in the top ten, its just too easy to get kills.
cav isn't really that good, cav just looks very good because we can kill all the peasents with our class. we don't help our team shit by killing peasents, do we? it just makes us look good. if all the archers would be able to kill the peasents and noobs in a round, than everyone would ssay they're OP. but that doesn't mean they are.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Elio on September 04, 2011, 09:46:15 am
I hate the ladders as far as I love them.

But it's the most effective tool to balance the teams, a map, even more than autobalance+banner balance.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Teeth on September 04, 2011, 12:27:52 pm
Only reply #9 seemed reasonable, everything else just seems to be the usual "no u" arguements that everu alance discussion devolves into.
Did you just talk about yourself as the most reasonable here? Reply #9 isnt that reasonable.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Momo on September 04, 2011, 01:52:38 pm
fast every 2h and 1h+shield can take ladder with him, and then come for roofmonkeys, they all just greedy and dont spend money on it))

BS, if an inf buys a ladder, then tries to go up to the ranged bundle of stickss, they just destroy the ladder + spam over 9000 arrows/bolts/throwing shit, and the inf is dead. So he can put his ladder up into his ass.

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Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Christo on September 04, 2011, 01:55:09 pm
Kewl mspaint skillz there mate.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Old_Sir_Agor on September 04, 2011, 02:12:00 pm
then just update maps with more static ladders and make more ranged spots, because now this new blank maps have nothing , just houses without inside or ladders, and maybe some towers.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Tomas on September 04, 2011, 03:54:55 pm
This has probably been suggested before, but would it be possible to make ladders so that instead of destroying they just get knocked down, so they could be raised again? Knocked down ladders couldn't be moved, only re-raised to original position. This would keep roof campers reachable. Also, knocked down ladders shouldn't be obstacles as they would be indestructible (during a round).

I like this suggestion, although coding could be hard.

The only alternative is ToD's suggestion of reworking all maps to make everywhere accessible.

EDIT: Another alternative.  Remove all Ladders from the game for individual characters and refund people their gold.  Then on every map place a ladder spawn site at each team's starting position (just like the construction material thingy in Strat Sieges) and possibly at other locations.  That way, whenever someone wants a ladder they just get one from the ladder spawn site (dropping their equip if neccessary).  Once placed they can then go back and pick up their dropped equipment whilst if that Ladder then gets destroyed you just get a new one.  I do think a medium Ladder HP buff might be needed as well though.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Tomas on September 04, 2011, 04:08:13 pm
edit: mistaken post
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: OttomanSniper on September 04, 2011, 04:12:06 pm
This poll not fair. Only archers or strategist commanders check "no" option. Archers are really bad on ground all know this. Last man roof camping already banned in rules. (Some 2 handers cant kill other 2 handers and want easy kill. )

WHY DONT play "no ranged" servers ? Learn game pls, cant win game with nerfs, its only persuade urself.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Glyph on September 04, 2011, 04:37:08 pm
This poll not fair. Only archers or strategist commanders check "no" option. Archers are really bad on ground all know this. Last man roof camping already banned in rules. (Some 2 handers cant kill other 2 handers and want easy kill. )

WHY DONT play "no ranged" servers ? Learn game pls, cant win game with nerfs, its only persuade urself.
no ranged servers aren't fun to play in, ranged belongs in the game, but not on roofs, that's just what we are trying to say, if ladders get deleted, than there will be a new patch anyway, which means there is an oppertunity to buff archers. don't worry, if ladders will be removed, there will still be balance.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: OttomanSniper on September 04, 2011, 04:52:24 pm
no ranged servers aren't fun to play in, ranged belongs in the game, but not on roofs, that's just what we are trying to say, if ladders get deleted, than there will be a new patch anyway, which means there is an oppertunity to buff archers. don't worry, if ladders will be removed, there will still be balance.

When im ground and any cavalary come for kill, always can kill me. Ground archer vs cavalary impossible for archers. U turn and hit, turn and hit... What can rus bow users do ? They are use only "Hammer"... How can kill you with shitty hammer ? Every one know archers are already dead on ground. Best archers max score average 20-5 but best cavs average score 40-5 and i see LEED can take 50-60 kill him best rounds. I see 50-0 cav but dont see archer.

I know why want this, every one boring shotting games and hate archers in this game. My suggestion is "no ranged" server.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Christo on September 04, 2011, 05:01:52 pm
When im ground and any cavalary come for kill, always can kill me. Ground archer vs cavalary impossible for archers. U turn and hit, turn and hit... What can rus bow users do ? They are use only "Hammer"... How can kill you with shitty hammer ? Every one know archers are already dead on ground. Best archers max score average 20-5 but best cavs average score 40-5 and i see LEED can take 50-60 kill him best rounds. I see 50-0 cav but dont see archer.

I know why want this, every one boring shotting games and hate archers in this game. My suggestion is "no ranged" server.

Headshot the god damn horse.

If you can't pull that off, don't play an archer. I can't, so I don't do it either.

Scores mean nothing. Yeah, cavalry can take out most of the fodder, but those are mostly the players who are just.. there.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: OttomanSniper on September 04, 2011, 05:08:45 pm
Headshot the god damn horse.

If you can't pull that off, don't play an archer. I can't, so I don't do it either.

Scores mean nothing. Yeah, cavalry can take out most of the fodder, but those are mostly the players who are just.. there.

Archers have one chance for shot cav. and head shot dont work (damage nerfed.). Bow draw time is too long for horse, cav come back time short than bow draw time. Only can block horse attacks.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Overdriven on September 04, 2011, 05:48:19 pm
Archers have one chance for shot cav. and head shot dont work (damage nerfed.). Bow draw time is too long for horse, cav come back time short than bow draw time. Only can block horse attacks.

Headshot works...depends on the horse/direction of attack. If a horse (anything below destrier) is charging you down, most horses will go down to 1 shot to the head because the speed bonus works in favour of the archer. Even with a horse charging side ways on you'll take down a significant amount of health.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Old_Sir_Agor on September 04, 2011, 06:03:46 pm
it is so easy to shoot horse in head)) much easier then kill with lance on horse lol)) you all speak about archer, why you forget about xbows? people with rbalest just dont have next chance vs cav, if they dont kill horse with 1 shoot,  right now inf is just pissed off that ppl kill they from roof, kill other enemys, then roofmonkeys go down, like all time, but nope you all want just more free kills.

So if no roof , i want this- I shoot infntry in the leg , he run 2 times slower, next leg and he cant walk ok?
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Buffalo on September 08, 2011, 01:52:12 pm
No more roofs for archers = even more cavalry. So unless we get deployable stakes at our disposal, I'm all agianst it.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Puppybull on September 08, 2011, 08:22:51 pm
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Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Cheap_Shot on September 09, 2011, 01:57:10 am
Don't know if this is possible but I'll repost this suggestion from another thread.

How about making ladders break if they stop moving before the 90 degree mark? Any legit ladder will have it traveling further then 90 degrees to form a path to walk up. Using ladders to block doors usually makes them stop before going further then 90 degrees. If they fell back down and broke in that case I think it might make sense and solve the door blocking issue. I'd have to test it to know though.

Then you could have it so you cant break your own ladders as well as teammates, and anyone using them in tight spaces to grief their team would have their ladders break.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: OttomanSniper on September 09, 2011, 08:55:21 am
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Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: bagge on September 09, 2011, 09:07:13 am
But the roof is our protection against cav.

Nerf cav
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: SixThumbs on September 10, 2011, 07:02:29 am
For a temporary solution why don't people with spare slots just drop ladders at the spawn?
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Glyph on September 10, 2011, 07:47:17 am
But the roof is our protection against cav.

Nerf cav
if ladders are removed, stakes will get in. so cav won't hit your asses as much
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Kafein on September 10, 2011, 11:35:05 am
But the roof is our protection against cav.

Nerf cav

So for you a balanced "protection" against cav means you are completly immune to that class and can attack it ? Do you know ranged are the only class that can do that ? Afaik, infantry can't hide in the ground and attack archers and cav through dirt.

True archers don't have any problems being on the ground and dealing with cav. They can headshot the horse, dodge it... The cav is disadvantaged if he doesn't catch the archer off-guard, which is impossible if the archer is well positioned (not too close from buildings where cav can hide behind).
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Kophka on September 10, 2011, 08:54:06 pm
But the roof is our protection against cav.

Nerf cav

You do realize that not only is roof your protection against cav, it's also protection from infantry. What protection do infantry and cav have from ranged?

Aware cav rapes unaware archers and unaware infantry.

Aware infantry rapes unaware/aware cav and unaware ranged

Aware ranged rapes unaware/aware cav and unaware/aware infantry.

See the pattern?
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: MaHuD on September 11, 2011, 01:38:37 am
As an archer I fully support this motion.
And would also like to point out that standing next to a building is the worst place to be for an archer, you have little warning time for enemy cav and no place to dodge.
Open spaces aren't that bad.

However, please buff the intelligence of the 2-handers. At the moment they seem to be unable to block down for a friendly archer to save him from being lanced. Instead they just let them die. They can learn a lot from those nice chaps that try to protect their entire team with the pikes/spears that they are carrying.

Teamplay is the way to go, not this "I want to duel for FAME AND GLORY". :/
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Teeth on September 11, 2011, 01:46:19 pm
Surprised at these results, guess its mostly eu 1 were its a huge plague. Every desert map, every round!
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Furax on September 11, 2011, 02:04:51 pm
Whats with all theese archers that cant deal with cav..your the cavs natural enemy!!

Just wait until hes up in your face then release arrow..you (almost) cant miss and hel take shitloads of damage because of his speed bonus charging towards you.

Most non retarded cavalry will never charge straight towards any ranged aiming him down.

And am I also the only one who thinks going up on a roof just makes thoose people up there easier targets for more stealthy posistioned ranged?

Nothing like firing my crossbow into a cluster of archers on a roof...*thump....thump....thump...thump* music to my ears.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Bulzur on September 11, 2011, 04:10:01 pm
Foot archer, on the ground, is the real badass way.
Say no to the lame archers on horse roofs.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Slamz on September 13, 2011, 09:07:01 am
That archers resort to roof camping is a good sign of how poorly balanced they are.  It's a ridiculous and desperate solution for a ridiculous and desperate situation.

Let me count the ways archers suffer:
* Must wear light armor or your accuracy suffers
* Once you shoot someone the first time, they start dodging.  Given arrow velocities, your odds of a second hit are no better than 1 in 3, regardless of your aim (is he going to dodge left, right or not at all?)
* Heavy armor has little impact on people's speed so that guy in 110 pounds of steel with the giant sword is going to be able to chase you down well enough that any attempt to shoot at him is risking your life
* Very limited ammo means most archers take up 2 slots for arrows.  The rus and long bow are 2 slot weapons so you end up with no space left for a decent weapon.  If you use the horn bow you can have 1 slot free for a good 1-hander but still no shield.  So basically you are always fodderous
* Calculating arrow falloff and proper leading of the target is a lot harder than just swinging your sword
* Even if you're a master at these calculations, the bows themselves are not pinpoint accurate anyway so it's always a crap shoot
* Your only defense against cavalry is to get somewhere they can't reach
* Anyone with decent shield is essentially immune to your weapon
* If you have high power draw, your accuracy suffers
* If you have low power draw, you don't do enough damage to kill that guy running at you full speed in, again, his 110 pounds of armor

So, you want to remove ladders too?  On top of all that?  Maybe we should give archers a 20% chance of shooting themselves in the head every time they fire, too?

How about we fix a few things and remove ladders at the same time, rather than just destroy archers completely.

My suggestions:
+ Make heavy armor count for a larger reduction in running speed
+ Any cavalry who hits any polearm user head on will take damage to the horse equal to if the polearm user had hit the horse.  This will hopefully make cavalry more risky and let infantry better protect archers (as well as themselves)
+ If you get damaged by an arrow you get a "limp" effect for 4 seconds that makes you run 50% normal speed
+ Double the capacity of all quivers.  This will give archers a little more option in how they kit themselves.  (bow, quiver, shield, hammer would be viable without totally gimping yourself due to insufficient ammo)

This will leave archers vulnerable against cavalry if they have no infantry with them, and will leave shield users as the primary archer murderers but will make archers more effective and survivable against the omnipresent full armor steel horde that largely dominates the game.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Tzar on September 13, 2011, 10:01:41 am
Jambi seams to do just fine without resorting to gay roof camp but then again he aint a noob archer like the rest of you whiners who wants ladders to stay ingame so u can be immortal for 5 min during each map.....  :rolleyes:

And the archer vs cav is lol good archers take down cav like no tommorow..

Jambi reach the top score board all the time without resorting to climbing a roof and staying there for 5 min.. maybe if you guys didnt roof camp 24/7 you would learn how to play with the rest of the mortal´s
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Bobthehero on September 13, 2011, 10:05:20 am
Big fucking deal you're able to fire at will at people with no means to fight back
And you can totally out run someone in armor
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Ujin on September 13, 2011, 10:49:11 am
That archers resort to roof camping is a good sign of how poorly balanced they are.  It's a ridiculous and desperate solution for a ridiculous and desperate situation.

Let me count the ways archers suffer:
* Must wear light armor or your accuracy suffers
* Once you shoot someone the first time, they start dodging.  Given arrow velocities, your odds of a second hit are no better than 1 in 3, regardless of your aim (is he going to dodge left, right or not at all?)
* Heavy armor has little impact on people's speed so that guy in 110 pounds of steel with the giant sword is going to be able to chase you down well enough that any attempt to shoot at him is risking your life
* Very limited ammo means most archers take up 2 slots for arrows.  The rus and long bow are 2 slot weapons so you end up with no space left for a decent weapon.  If you use the horn bow you can have 1 slot free for a good 1-hander but still no shield.  So basically you are always fodderous
* Calculating arrow falloff and proper leading of the target is a lot harder than just swinging your sword
* Even if you're a master at these calculations, the bows themselves are not pinpoint accurate anyway so it's always a crap shoot
* Your only defense against cavalry is to get somewhere they can't reach
* Anyone with decent shield is essentially immune to your weapon
* If you have high power draw, your accuracy suffers
* If you have low power draw, you don't do enough damage to kill that guy running at you full speed in, again, his 110 pounds of armor

So, you want to remove ladders too?  On top of all that?  Maybe we should give archers a 20% chance of shooting themselves in the head every time they fire, too?

How about we fix a few things and remove ladders at the same time, rather than just destroy archers completely.

My suggestions:
+ Make heavy armor count for a larger reduction in running speed
+ Any cavalry who hits any polearm user head on will take damage to the horse equal to if the polearm user had hit the horse.  This will hopefully make cavalry more risky and let infantry better protect archers (as well as themselves)
+ If you get damaged by an arrow you get a "limp" effect for 4 seconds that makes you run 50% normal speed
+ Double the capacity of all quivers.  This will give archers a little more option in how they kit themselves.  (bow, quiver, shield, hammer would be viable without totally gimping yourself due to insufficient ammo)

This will leave archers vulnerable against cavalry if they have no infantry with them, and will leave shield users as the primary archer murderers but will make archers more effective and survivable against the omnipresent full armor steel horde that largely dominates the game.
You're a genuinely funny person, you know .
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Leshma on September 13, 2011, 11:16:34 am
That archers resort to roof camping is a good sign of how poorly balanced they are.  It's a ridiculous and desperate solution for a ridiculous and desperate situation.

Nah, it just shows how crappy players most of them are. I was an archer for a gen, NEVER stayed on roof until the end and a lot of times I was the best performing archer in both teams. Actually every time except when some of the big names like Nelo, Jambi, Zelisia, Nebun, Chase and players like that were on the server.

Had no problem with 2h players, could kill 3 or 4 of them chasing me, noob shielders weren't an issue as well, only guys that annoyed me were super fast cav and skilled xbowmen (who hide in bushes which makes them hard to see since I use MovieWB mod...)

Really, most of you archer guys must admit that you suck and try to get better at this game.

Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: MaHuD on September 13, 2011, 01:14:06 pm
Green = good point
Orange = Thats how it is supposed to be, every class needs weaknesses
Red = Bullshit

That archers resort to roof camping is a good sign of how poorly balanced they are.  It's a ridiculous and desperate solution for a ridiculous and desperate situation.

Let me count the ways archers suffer:
* Must wear light armor or your accuracy suffers
* Once you shoot someone the first time, they start dodging.  Given arrow velocities, your odds of a second hit are no better than 1 in 3, regardless of your aim (is he going to dodge left, right or not at all?)
* Heavy armor has little impact on people's speed so that guy in 110 pounds of steel with the giant sword is going to be able to chase you down well enough that any attempt to shoot at him is risking your life
* Very limited ammo means most archers take up 2 slots for arrows.  The rus and long bow are 2 slot weapons so you end up with no space left for a decent weapon.  If you use the horn bow you can have 1 slot free for a good 1-hander but still no shield.  So basically you are always fodderous
* Calculating arrow falloff and proper leading of the target is a lot harder than just swinging your sword
* Even if you're a master at these calculations, the bows themselves are not pinpoint accurate anyway so it's always a crap shoot
* Your only defense against cavalry is to get somewhere they can't reach
* Anyone with decent shield is essentially immune to your weapon
* If you have high power draw, your accuracy suffers
* If you have low power draw, you don't do enough damage to kill that guy running at you full speed in, again, his 110 pounds of armor


Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Leshma on September 13, 2011, 01:43:30 pm
Quote
1) Once you shoot someone the first time, they start dodging.  Given arrow velocities, your odds of a second hit are no better than 1 in 3, regardless of your aim (is he going to dodge left, right or not at all?)
2) Calculating arrow falloff and proper leading of the target is a lot harder than just swinging your sword

1) Some archers don't care about players dancing in circles, they hit you regardless of that, how you explain that? I say you suck :)
2) Swinging your sword is just one smaller portion of playing twohander, bigger and a lot harder are footwork and blocking/feinting, so no 2h isn't easier at all. Calculating arrow fall and reading people's moves isn't that hard at all. Again, you suck :)
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Kafein on September 13, 2011, 01:54:46 pm
1) Some archers don't care about players dancing in circles, they hit you regardless of that, how you explain that? I say you suck :)

This.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Kophka on September 13, 2011, 03:49:11 pm
I posted this in another thread, but it works here too. (Isn't funny how so many threads are related?)  :mrgreen:

The arguments for Pro-Roof-Camping (or 1) are : a) Archer is hard! ; b) I'm not a melee fighter! ; c) Cavalry kills me while I shoot at other people! ; d) People fought on roofs in medieval times!

Ok, acknowledged.

The arguments for Anti-Roof-Camping (or 2) are : a) We can't fight back! ; b) It delays rounds! ; c) People leech! ; d) People fought in fields/forests/mountains in medieval times!

That's about it, yeah?

So ,
1a) Yes, archer is hard. It got nerfed pretty badly. Sorry guys.

1b) Melee fighters aren't ranged fighters. You have the advantage anywhere but face to face. Imagine a battle where you archers had absolutely no one to shoot. It would suck, right? That's how melee ppl feel right now.

1c) Try paying attention to cavalry, they really really don't want to fight an aware ANYTHING. Horses die like dodo birds when people are watching them.

1d) Yeah they did. Doesn't mean it's fun for anyone but the people in the nests.

Ok, now,

2a) This is exactly why people hate it so much. On the ground, a ranged fighter can kill just like any other member of his team. When he's on a roof, it becomes a ranged vs ranged fight, making the rest of the team useless. Not cool guys.

2b) It has delayed rounds in the past, but that doesn't mean it always will. But when a round IS delayed, in my experience, it has usually been 3-4 archers up on a roof/tower, refusing to move until all melee is dead.

2c) Same argument as 2b really. People that aren't even ranged get up on the roof/tower with their ranged buddies, and sit there being useless. Not the archers fault, but definitely an argument for getting rid of ladders in battle.

2d) This is what people think of when they think of medieval battle, maybe because that's how the media told us it was done. The reason I prefer to think like this is because EVERYONE can be useful and participate in the battle from beginning to end. Good argument for sticking to field battles, rather than villages/towns OVER AND OVER AND OVER.

I think the Anti-Roof-Camping arguments hold a lot more water than the pro's, and I can't wait until they figure out some way to make this crap go away. Please get rid of ladders in battle devs!
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Teeth on September 13, 2011, 05:24:19 pm
That's 63.5 percent that voted yes when not counting the 'I like the view votes'.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Tears of Destiny on September 13, 2011, 05:32:12 pm
I am starting to feel like people are not really responding to this thread anymore, and just copy and pasting old responses from the other threads.  :?
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: rustyspoon on September 13, 2011, 07:18:12 pm
I am starting to feel like not really responding to this thread anymore, and people are just copy and pasting old responses from the other threads.  :?
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Teeth on September 13, 2011, 07:50:31 pm
I am starting to feel like people are not really responding to this thread anymore, and just copy and pasting old responses from the other threads.  :?
That's why devs need to either say yes or no on this, cause this discussion isn't going to get any new information.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Kafein on September 13, 2011, 08:33:21 pm
That's why devs need to either say yes or no on this, cause this discussion isn't going to get any new information.

This.

Ho wait, I'm quoting myself...
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Tzar on September 13, 2011, 09:35:56 pm
Remove ladders from battle.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Glyph on September 14, 2011, 04:00:40 pm
Remove ladders from battle.
tzar, remind yourself of the quote from paul you have in your signature. waisted time :P
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Sultan Eren on September 14, 2011, 04:18:46 pm
Or make ladders unbreakable in battle.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Overdriven on September 14, 2011, 04:25:19 pm
I'd say remove them.

There are archers that will own you and I've never seen them on a roof. Just stroll onto pecores for a couple of hours and test yourself against blackbow and bambi. When those two are on together...wow I'm shot off my horse in seconds.

Archers have little reason to be on roofs. It won't make them more killable by cav because most roofs are in village areas and village areas are often suicide for cav until most of the enemy team is dead. By which time an archer is probably screwed anyway. Yes it gives them a better view to shoot from. But I hate camping on high points as a foot archer. I only do it if my team collapses and going on the ground would be suicide and there's a convenient ladder near by. But I would have no issue in not being able to do it.
Title: Re: Remove ladders from battle
Post by: Tears of Destiny on September 14, 2011, 06:03:09 pm
I honestly rarely go on roofs when I am an archer, and when I do it is usually because the map is terrible and my team brought only two pikes and all the cav were stacked on the other team and everyone is splitting up.

I noticed that I have an easier time shooting other archers when they are on the roofs as compared to the ground. Last night, almost everytime I shot and killed an archer it was because they were in a cramped spot which made their weaving predictable (a narrow street or on top of a roof). I also notice that more often then not, roof camping gets me shot faster then staying on the ground. The main advantage in my eyes when I roof camp (besides the 96% immunity to cav, ignoring those that somehow fly their cav into the sky which always makes me chuckle) is that I don't have wanna-be bodyguard teammates weaving in front of me to tk...

I would not mind too much if the devs disabled ladders on battle for a couple of weeks just to test things out. It need not be permanent, just a small test, then put the ladders back in while they contemplate how it has changed things. While I am not totally comfortable with removing ladders, it does sound intriguing. Of course, you could argue that I am biased since I rarely roof camp and spend most of my time on the ground...