Gamemode Stronghold - beta this evening?(CET)

[Panoply]

WHOA! THIS LOOKS AWESOME!

I mean, I see a ton of potential for griefing, and I don't know how well pubbies could play this... but holy crap!

Haha, when you said gmod + stronghold + tribes, I thought you were trolling...

[rustyspoon]

Ok, what we know/decided so far:

The gamemode is called Stronghold.
It's played on a large, random plains map
Your objective is to kill the enemy dummy (+1 multi)
Your objective is to protect your own dummy (multi = down to 1)
One round should take between 60 and 90 minutes.
There are 8 Resource spots scattered over the map(=Mines).
You have to hold those spots to gain resources.
With those resources, you can build Wall Parts, Towers, Gatehouses, Stairs, etc.
With those resources, you can upgrade your Mines so they give resources faster.
With those resources, you can build and upgrade buildings:
Fletcher, Weaponsmith, Armorsmith, Stables, Engineer(+Siege Camp), Church(+Chapel)
Building and upgrading those buildings allows your team to spawn with better equipment
Siege camps allow production of Siege equipment away from your base,
Chapel allows spawning away from your base.

All of this can be changed, nothing is set in stone. This is what makes sense for us right now by brainstorming, not by testing.

My god...you must finish this. NOW!

[ManOfWar]

Im assuming the xp gain would be much larger than on battle servers, because of the long time that the game mode will take

[Torp]

the only problem i see is that a strong team might get an advantage very fast, and then it will be quite boring

edit: sounds very nice though

[MrShine]

Looks awesome.

With such long rounds to gain multi I hope we don't see a lot of 'teams aren't balanced to get a multi' situations.  Dammit, I'd want my x2!

Exploitable but I could see clans trying to take control and try to keep a x5 going.  Seems like a bunch of fun if pulled off right

[Nick_Trano]

This is basically persistent world in the sense of castles and crafting, but miles better because you can make custom castles.

I wholeheartedly approve and support this.

[Socrates]

Sounds huge. How will the repairs work? Will they be scaled to balance a little more with the gamemode? I think a round of 60-90 minutes could really hurt the bank for people wearing decent-good equipment.

[Vibe]

Ok, what we know/decided so far:

The gamemode is called Stronghold.
It's played on a large, random plains map
Your objective is to kill the enemy dummy (+1 multi)
Your objective is to protect your own dummy (multi = down to 1)
One round should take between 60 and 90 minutes.
There are 8 Resource spots scattered over the map(=Mines).
You have to hold those spots to gain resources.
With those resources, you can build Wall Parts, Towers, Gatehouses, Stairs, etc.
With those resources, you can upgrade your Mines so they give resources faster.
With those resources, you can build and upgrade buildings:
Fletcher, Weaponsmith, Armorsmith, Stables, Engineer(+Siege Camp), Church(+Chapel)
Building and upgrading those buildings allows your team to spawn with better equipment
Siege camps allow production of Siege equipment away from your base,
Chapel allows spawning away from your base.

All of this can be changed, nothing is set in stone. This is what makes sense for us right now by brainstorming, not by testing.

Jesus holy fuck. Now make it a persistent world and you win

But somehow I have a feeling this is a troll post. If it's not, then this is better than Strat (atleast for me). Also, how much of it is already done?

[Camaris]

Ok didnt expect something like that.
I hope we will be able to play it soon ;).

We dont use our Heirloom in this mod then?

[chadz]

You're using all equipment you have in cRPG directly, except hammers, ladders and construction things.

Dunno how much is done. I only started coding it the day before yesterday.
I'd say a rough estimate is 50%, give or take. But Paretos Principle will strike again, I'm afraid.

[Camaris]

You're using all equipment you have in cRPG directly, except hammers, ladders and construction things.

Dunno how much is done. I only started coding it the day before yesterday.
I'd say a rough estimate is 50%, give or take. But Paretos Principle will strike again, I'm afraid.

So how does the weaponsmith work then? Does it increase the money-limitation on your equipment?

for example start with 20000 Gold limit // lvl1 Smith +2k lvl2 +2k lvl3 +2k?
Something like that.
Would be cool cause then it would make sense to have more then good equipment without upkeep as only reason.

It will be a really reallly strategic game on big maps ;)

PS: Thank you very much spending time on this awesome new gamemode.
I cant wait to play it.

[Vibe]

You're using all equipment you have in cRPG directly, except hammers, ladders and construction things.

Dunno how much is done. I only started coding it the day before yesterday.
I'd say a rough estimate is 50%, give or take. But Paretos Principle will strike again, I'm afraid.

Well the idea is brilliant. It's going in the way of sandbox, which I love. Add few more stuff and it'll be like Haven & Hearth

You also said that we're using all equipment we have in cRPG directly, so what are you actually talking about here:

Building and upgrading those buildings allows your team to spawn with better equipment

[Cepeshi]

no hammers no fun

[chadz]

So how does the weaponsmith work then? Does it increase the money-limitation on your equipment?

for example start with 20000 Gold limit // lvl1 Smith +2k lvl2 +2k lvl3 +2k?

This.

[Camaris]

Awesome. Low tier equipment revival i guess ;))