02-28-2014, 09:04 PM
All that for : People that are happy don't often complain? I get that.. 
However, I see even the active flaggers suggesting the game
rewards too well for what it is, and allows one to basically avoid the rest of the actual zone play.
I think even within the scope of the current game it would be easy to make some changes to bring it more in line with the CZ game play.
Some ideas...
Lower the drop timer:
More like 60 or 80 seconds - it should be low enough that in order to collect ALL the flags, you can't just :
1: get them all within the time limit
or
2: just hide around the outside of the map waiting for timers to expire..
....you're going to need to fight and keep the timer refreshed to hold them all to win the game.
2: Raise the kill bty needed to refresh the timer .. I don't know what it is right now, but with the fact that the flag game craps greens for a win, it should be a lot higher, say, 120 or over - they should have to fight ships roughly on par with their own to keep up the timer.
3: In line with #2, increase bty share on regular teams to match whatever the Kill bty for reset is. If it's 120, team greens to 120 or whatever... Flagging should not supplant greening as a way to get a powerful ship, at the very least, it should be on par. If people that in no way shape or form are flagging, on a freq with a flagger gets ridiculous bonus greens for it, then we need to up the green share for teams that do not flag to keep them competitive with the flag rewards...beside, with all the whining and crying I see about low bounty 'recyclers' rocketing across the zone - it would seem that most people rather get some reward for that risk and have good competitive fights... Maybe if those F3 heros have 120+ bty people will be more likely to engage them instead of run away and waiting for them to green, which they never do.
4: Lower the prize rewards.
Pretty much self explainatory..
We could do any one of these, or some combination of all of them..
I just think there is better balance to be had, and based on the current populations, the flag game hasn't really kept up balance wise, IMHO..
However, I see even the active flaggers suggesting the game
rewards too well for what it is, and allows one to basically avoid the rest of the actual zone play.
I think even within the scope of the current game it would be easy to make some changes to bring it more in line with the CZ game play.
Some ideas...
Lower the drop timer:
More like 60 or 80 seconds - it should be low enough that in order to collect ALL the flags, you can't just :
1: get them all within the time limit
or
2: just hide around the outside of the map waiting for timers to expire..
....you're going to need to fight and keep the timer refreshed to hold them all to win the game.
2: Raise the kill bty needed to refresh the timer .. I don't know what it is right now, but with the fact that the flag game craps greens for a win, it should be a lot higher, say, 120 or over - they should have to fight ships roughly on par with their own to keep up the timer.
3: In line with #2, increase bty share on regular teams to match whatever the Kill bty for reset is. If it's 120, team greens to 120 or whatever... Flagging should not supplant greening as a way to get a powerful ship, at the very least, it should be on par. If people that in no way shape or form are flagging, on a freq with a flagger gets ridiculous bonus greens for it, then we need to up the green share for teams that do not flag to keep them competitive with the flag rewards...beside, with all the whining and crying I see about low bounty 'recyclers' rocketing across the zone - it would seem that most people rather get some reward for that risk and have good competitive fights... Maybe if those F3 heros have 120+ bty people will be more likely to engage them instead of run away and waiting for them to green, which they never do.
4: Lower the prize rewards.
Pretty much self explainatory..
We could do any one of these, or some combination of all of them..
I just think there is better balance to be had, and based on the current populations, the flag game hasn't really kept up balance wise, IMHO..