Yes, I know I am spending TWI's money here, but I think it has to come from them to work. I'd be happy to paypal money to help support it.
What I was thinking was a weekly poll and a mod to test "what if" scenarios. It would not be white-listed.
Here's how it would work.
1) TWI runs a poll of maybe 20 or so suggestions. One change per suggestion.
2) The top suggestion would be run for a week or two at the most.
3) Everyone posts their opinions and experiences on that server.
4) Profit!! Ok, maybe not.
5) New poll
The point is to test all of the things people suggest so they are possibly integrated into the game at some point or completely ruled out. I'm not talking major changes. Just a little tweak of the code to see how things would really work.
For example.
Lower zerker carrying capacity to 7 or some other really low number to really make them only melee.
Add another canister or two to firebug's capacity
Completely remove FP's rage timer
Kick up the max number of spanwed zeds to 80
Have melee run the same speed as everyone else
Remove all headshot damage from all zeds
Make scrakes unstunnable
Double the speed of crawlers
Take away all smoke from the launched grenades
Take away player's self healing capacity
Take the axe out
Take out all alt-attacks
Take away faster running with the knife
Level 6 players can't carry 9mm ammo
and so on...
Of course some of the suggestions would make for a completely suicidal game. Some of the suggestions would never make it into the game. But the point would be to try different things to see how they would work and how it affects gameplay. Maybe some suggestions sound completely off the wall but playing them would spark other ideas. It would be a way to actually try suggestions to see how they would work and provide real experience so people can say "That worked." or "We've tried that and it was way unbalanced."
Opinions?
What I was thinking was a weekly poll and a mod to test "what if" scenarios. It would not be white-listed.
Here's how it would work.
1) TWI runs a poll of maybe 20 or so suggestions. One change per suggestion.
2) The top suggestion would be run for a week or two at the most.
3) Everyone posts their opinions and experiences on that server.
4) Profit!! Ok, maybe not.
5) New poll
The point is to test all of the things people suggest so they are possibly integrated into the game at some point or completely ruled out. I'm not talking major changes. Just a little tweak of the code to see how things would really work.
For example.
Lower zerker carrying capacity to 7 or some other really low number to really make them only melee.
Add another canister or two to firebug's capacity
Completely remove FP's rage timer
Kick up the max number of spanwed zeds to 80
Have melee run the same speed as everyone else
Remove all headshot damage from all zeds
Make scrakes unstunnable
Double the speed of crawlers
Take away all smoke from the launched grenades
Take away player's self healing capacity
Take the axe out
Take out all alt-attacks
Take away faster running with the knife
Level 6 players can't carry 9mm ammo
and so on...
Of course some of the suggestions would make for a completely suicidal game. Some of the suggestions would never make it into the game. But the point would be to try different things to see how they would work and how it affects gameplay. Maybe some suggestions sound completely off the wall but playing them would spark other ideas. It would be a way to actually try suggestions to see how they would work and provide real experience so people can say "That worked." or "We've tried that and it was way unbalanced."
Opinions?
