After reading this post (
http://forum.c-rpg.net/index.php/topic,8672.0.html) about why people play battle, and some people saying that it seems "bland", I saw 1 or 2 people suggest something that I found ingenious.
I propose either a change to the current battle mode, or a new game mode, wherein MotF comes up EVERY round at say, the 2 minute mark. Keep the spawn location of the flags at random, so that the "end" battlefield is always a new place in the map. This does a few things
1. It gives Battle a purpose beyond "You.... Go kill Them..". You now have a semi-consistant goal to achieve beyond murdering the other team.
2. It stops those assholes who like to Draw out rounds by either Running or Camping after someone dies, which makes MotF not spawn.
3. Having it spawn consistently at (again a suggested time) 2 minutes allows almost everyone a chance to GET to it, as opposed to it spawning off at a far away place that only someone riding a Horse could possibly get to.
4. It will make it more exciting to have a place to fight over after the initial clash of the teams. Some of my favorite moments in battle is me and one or two other guys fighting the last 2-4 people on the opposing team over the flag, trying to maneuver them away so Our flag goes the tiniest bit above theirs before the timer runs out.
5. Having the flag objective in battle mode may make it seem like the best of Siege and Battle combined (1 life, so it counts, but also having a goal to work towards).
6. ???
7. Profit
In theory, it should be easy to have this done, considering that it's already in the game. I feel that this is at least an option to consider. Again, I suggest it either be a seperate game mode, or implemented on certain battle servers (like melee weekends on tuna town), or on certain days like naked wednesdays used to be, or, if the feed back is overwhelmingly positive, add it to all of the battle servers.
Comments and suggestions are welcomed and appreciated.
-Zylo
Edit - If this needs to be in the "suggestions" area of the forums, Please move it. I tried posting it in both places to get more thoughts on it, but it's counting it as a double post. Hopefully this isn't completely overlooked
. Thanks in advance.