Map vote change

[Hypernoma]

[quote author=Hypernoma link=topic=22681.msg164701#msg164701 date=1391613114]

My crusade against kiting is due to my belief that NI should be a team game, hence no single player, and one player kiting on a server is boring for others to watch and far too often leads to fights between players with "leave the server n00b I want it for myself". Now I also do not enjoy mass-cading with 2 shielders and slashing macros but we have a few things in the pipes to play around with that...

Out of curiosity, how would you like us to play the game?
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As mentioned above, I much prefer movement! I appreciate it isn't necessarily possible at present and that's why we're making big changes. For a while our response to mass-cading is to make bots harder, so players die/res to bring in more cades so we make bots harder etc etc. Changes are however incoming.

I hosted an official event a long time ago on the old castle map. We split our team into two are manned a barricade in each of the gates by the bridges. Players were assigned a barricade to man and protect while some players ran between the two providing aid where required. At wave 16 we retreated to the tower to defend for the last 4 waves. I like to think that was incredibly good fun and I recall the players on my server having fun (the players on the other server didn't have nearly as much fun obv!)

Another example was Jeldan, even with the dreaded room. Players would start outside the gates before retreating to hold the first hill. As the bots would progress players would fall back up the hill fighting as they went before eventually retreating to the room as a last stand. However it became common practice among new players to just stand in the room from wave 1 and the fun (in my opinion) was lost.

In the old days it was never about kiting the nords, but more about starting at the "front" of the map and then working your way back as the waves got harder until you reached a last 'do or die' holding point. I don't know if I will ever be able to enforce or enact the gameplay I envision but I'm not going to stop trying.