Random Events

[IlPalazzo]

Most of the people who play the game (or at least the people that come around these forums) pride themselves with having skill. If you throw in an element of randomness, you take away control from the individual player. A random game is less about having good mechanics/skill/strategy and more about getting dumb-luck, which is what I think most people are a bit wary of... Figure out a way to give good players a chance to calculate, manipulate, or strategize with these "random" events and maybe it'll be an appealing feature for the game.

Ex.
-Having map control or force upgrades may determine whether the event will impact a team positively or negatively.
-Make the random events more predictable or selectable. Maybe certain tanks/weapons can affect the weather (Frost Bots increase the likelihood of a snow affect, Titans and Earth Bots can create and earthquake. That way players can make builds the complement these events). Perhaps a player can invest some form of "upgrades" to increase or choose the chances of some event happening.
-Make the events either avoidable or affects to all players simultaneously, that way certain players aren't shafted or unfairly buffed (imagine getting a 10% heal or a having your team get hit by an air strike before a major team battle).

(1) If you add an extra mode with random event, I am afraid it could become another "hb" mode. Btanks already have too many modes, and I think it is good to have as less modes as possible. And it is hard to make the random event as default mode, because it takes quite some time to evaluate and adjust the game balance.

Rest assured, the only mode that would become as popular as HB would be a mode that increases the rate at which gold enters the game... Personally I think they modes help ease up on the feeling of monotony that tends to creep up after playing for a while.