07-10-2014, 07:34 PM
Preparation time certainly is a nice feature and it has already enhanced NI a lot in my opinion, but I somehow feel like its not at its full potential yet.
The two biggest flaws of preparation time:
- Sometimes it feels unnecessary (e.g. when playing alone or in a small team on early normal mode).
- For late waves it simply is not long enough to take care of all the toming, cade placement etc. in time.
My suggestion would be adding polls to either extend or skip the current preparation time. You can submit those via the Esc menu as usual, and if more than ~70% of the players currently on the server vote in favor of it, the preparation time will be extended by another 30 seconds (repeatable as often as necessary, or with a certain hard capped amount to avoid abuse), or simply skipped respectively.
Shouldnt be too difficult to code into the mod, and I personally feel like it would be a nice addition.
If anyone finds flaws in the concept or simply wants to add his opinion please post it here.
The two biggest flaws of preparation time:
- Sometimes it feels unnecessary (e.g. when playing alone or in a small team on early normal mode).
- For late waves it simply is not long enough to take care of all the toming, cade placement etc. in time.
My suggestion would be adding polls to either extend or skip the current preparation time. You can submit those via the Esc menu as usual, and if more than ~70% of the players currently on the server vote in favor of it, the preparation time will be extended by another 30 seconds (repeatable as often as necessary, or with a certain hard capped amount to avoid abuse), or simply skipped respectively.
Shouldnt be too difficult to code into the mod, and I personally feel like it would be a nice addition.
If anyone finds flaws in the concept or simply wants to add his opinion please post it here.