Nord Invasion about to fizzle out.

[Ziggy]

Hello all

I have created a map and would love to keep creating maps for the NI community as i have loads of ideas. My current and first map has been designed to embody what i think NI needs which is... I made my current map with comments from Assasine in mind such as kiting and want to know what the devs think about the map, if they dont like it then i will change it.

1. Large maps for players to have space to run around and fight the AI without it being a big mess like we are finding with most maps.
2. Kitable to give few players e.g. 2-5 the ability to not depend on a large amount of people to loot goods (boosting the economy by lowering base material prices such as HM from 7k).
3. A large range of places to work as a team and camp.

Im reading all these comments (pretty much all i agree with) and i simply think that a few good maps would be the solution to everything. People are getting bored of waiting for 15/16 player slot and sitting behind people with shields praying for loots that will be shared between 16 people. Ive played a lot the past few weeks and havent got a single drop over 7k, that being HM. The more experianced players need more, i know i do. Kiting would reward people more than camping in more than one way (something to do when no one is online). Myself and Assasine love kiting together but as soon as we get to wave 16 people start to join (which is fine) but the maps arnt big enough or catered to kiting or setting up intime for wave 16, so the game is over. Maybe introducing smaller servers e.g. 5 to kite after wave 15 so others cant join and ruin a run for the kiters. Probably suggested before but again doesnt hurt.

The more craftable loot drops the more the prices of items drop. This has a lot of advantages such as the poorer players will get the chance to enjoy the game and feel they are advancing and furthermore feel great as they are killing loads of AI in normal mode and hard as they can access the higher tier gear sooner. Legendaires are a lost now, too many people have them. They are in every game and by the time wave 12 comes, even the poorest person has picked one up so there is literally no need for them to buy one. Personally i dont know what could be done about this but maybe others do.....

Do i think Normal should be kitable? Yes, able to do this with medium to higher end Tier 4 gear.
Do i think Hard should be kitable? Yes, only with high end gear such as legendaries by high skilled people.
Do i think Rag should be kitable? No, rag is meant to be too hard for a few to do and needs an organised team.

What do people think about what i have said?

I love what Fisherman said, and agree with what everyone has said so far. We need to get more new players by
1. Updating the Mod DB page. (Please update it when the next update comes along.)
2. Reaching out to steam friends letting them know about the new update. (tell them to join so they will be ready for the new update. And yes I know its a grassroots approach, but sometimes those work best.)
3. Keeping the new ones we have by making these changes to the maps, and introducing new ones that make it a possibility to kite, and help all of us including the redshirts.

All in all I'm just really looking forward to the next update, and I REALLY hope that kiting is introduced back into the mix. I like how Fisherman set up the kiting rules/ideas. I just really like this mod, but it does need improvements. The only way we can fix this mod is by getting more people involved.