STRATEGUS IS GREAT AND SUPERB! Just wanted to say that, but I was sitting here thinking, and stumbled upon this, someone who has posted before something similar to my thoughts. Read and think about it:
"AFAIK the flags were made to save people's time by preventing the situations when one team has over9000 accepted players online and the other team has 1-5, and the battle turnes to a spawnrape. But the flag system ruins the gameplay when the teams are pretty equal.
We prepare for the battle, make plans, discuss tactics, but all ends in 3-5 minutes, for someone have put the flag down and protected it. Even if the forces were equal. The flags make autowins for battles.
So the battles (you know, the Strategus Battles) have become really boring, the main goal is to put down the fkn flag. It is really not interesting to wait a half of a day to waste 2 minutes on that. I'd rather play one battle a day if it was interesting rather than waste my time on two-minute flagwin every hour.
In short, it would be better to change this flag system a bit in order to work when teams are not balanced and not to work when the they are.
The system will work in two steps:
1. After the "THE GAME HAS STARTED" line appears on screens the server compares the number of players in team 1 to the team 2
2. After that we have options:
- if the teams are fair, the server disables the flag (or the flag disappears or sth) and poeple enjoy the battle
- if the teams are not fair, flags appear (or work or sth) and people down waste time on the silly spawnrape
Roughly, the flags will appear if greater_team/smaller_team ratio equals or greater than.. let's take 4 (just for example).
For example, the greater team has 60 playes, the smaller team has 15 players. The ratio equals 4, the flags work. If the smaller team had 20 players (this ratio is smaller than 4) the flags would not work, but people would enjoy the game.
Forgive my English
the terms in our language differ from yours and it is not that easy to find the right word."
What do you think? I think it's a very nice option, although, I guess you'd have to mess with spawn mechanics, but would that be so hard?
