How about:

Whats the difference between this and the gameplay of domination?

what would happen when one team takes three zones then camps?

this just occured to me...

Big downside of Domination...You know where your enemy spawns.  that takes away a lot of surprise.  But this is an assumption.  I haven't tried it.

Domination is used for some big PC ladders.  but as an option, where the challenged team gets to pick the game type.  

Ah, but loth, are you forgeting that the smoke stays in your control when you leave, so you can move as a team. I guess upon giving it thought I do remember why I chose to propose a modified version domination in this thread. Dom calls for getting as much smoke as fast as possible. My idea only calls for taking it as a way to win if you are getting spawn camped, and you don't get points for how long you hold it but by whether you finish and still hold it. That makes sense doesn't it? Too much java homework...can not see...


I ran a bunch of no spawn dom games after my last post, and they all ended in elimination. One of the matches, however, had the 5 smoke locations controlled by one team and would have resulted (by my proposed mod's conditions) in a map control victory. I stopped the game in hysterics- much to the annoyance of my players- until I managed to explain why. On the whole it was a good experience, and the fact that you know where the enemy starts only adds to the need for good strategy that you can execute quickly.

He meant what he typed, but in different terms.  As like one team camps near their own spawn waiting for opposition to come to them (spawn camping).  And creating the domination like smoke areas was to keep players on their toes.

Here is where everyone loses sight/focus.  Once you mention smoke and bases, the first thing most of us see are players capturing smoke areas and winning a game.  BUT smart teams would realize that crafty coordinated team play that moves and controls the map as a whole and in unison, would be the more dominating factor in the overall game while capturing the bases as they go (dominating the map is dominating the bases).  Capturing only the bases is just a patch job, and would be easily taken apart by a well coordinated team.

     Ah, yes. My mistake; I always associate the term "spawn camping" with the offensive maneuver.

     It's a damn shame this is a Red Storm engine, or an actual mod would be possible instead of these silly half-assed attempts to force the engine to do something different. Aramarth has a great idea, but the engine's limitations will force it to be less than it could be. Optimally, it would still be about controlling territory, but it would actually keep track of how much territory (expressed as a percentage of the map, most likely) lies within your line, preferably with fog of war on the in-game score/stats display to encourage scouting. 'Course, this IS a Red Storm engine, which means Aramarth has to resort to bases to represent control of territory. Bleh.

Seeing as Mauti has made his ruling, and hasn't posted here even to tell me I am a terrible person who shouldn't post for humanity's sake,</sarcasm> I am putting my mod on the back burner. Do not distress you few fans the of the idea, the mod will still be made. I just don't have a sense of urgency anymore.

Yeah, that first sentence is off-color for me, but one tries to believe that it isn't personal when no one in authority chooses to offer an appearance in any of one's several threads. Simply to hear from people even if they breathe fire at me is better than total lack of concern.</soapbox>

I have got to stop that. See you on gameranger people.

ok, surely theres a way to keep the smoke colour the same. Like in SOLO HH, the smoke stays the same but the game gives you the indication of who is in possesion (Gold Team have secured control point 3).

this would mean you wouldnt be able to see where your enemy spawns since all the smoke is the same color...

From my experience  not many clans rush to the wz - they advance carefully to the zone and try to get the other team out of their defense position.

I think several zones are more inviting for a rush gamestyle because  the clan with the most conquered(reached) zones is almost for sure the winner contary to WZ where the central area is difficult to defend and all in all the kills mostly decide about winning or not.

However the wz creators are working on some additions/improvements.(visible timer and may I can persuade them to create a special BL version where the colours are correct).

Bye,

Mauti