2009-01-23, 15:41:15
Oh please don't make make normal mode faster. It's fine, and we don't need another high bounty mode.
As for high bounty games being quicker than short bounty games, I completely disagree. Actually, usually my high bounty games last longer than my normal games. My hb games generally last for like 50 minutes or more while my normal games last for 30 minutes or more. Why is this? Well in high bounty, you will quickly outgrow early-game and mid-game items (such as orbital command, seige pack, etc.) and eventually after an hour or so, you will all have titans with frost lasers and after that noone can improve themselves anymore (so often you will quickly reach some sort of a stalemate). You cant really use midgame strategies as effectively, and are all giant robots with huge dps there are less strategies to use. In normal mode I can get a heavy tank, a seige pack and an orbital command and their buildings die pretty fast, especially as they wont have a bazillion dps to blow me apart when I get near a base. Furthermore, in normal mode, you can actually use factories to heal as the enemy wont all teleport instantly to it and blow it up in 2 seconds. Also, creeps are stronger relative to tanks in normal mode (as tanks are weaker), which gives a much bigger advantage to the attacker when sieging. In hb there are much less viable tactics; tinkering or mining isn't worth it, because there isn't enough time to build towers or create mines, so in hb I always go a scout with 1 or 2 bombard cannons to start to get fed.
Anyway, I voted #7, because it is a noob mode and I'm so sick of it being the only thing hosted.
peace
As for high bounty games being quicker than short bounty games, I completely disagree. Actually, usually my high bounty games last longer than my normal games. My hb games generally last for like 50 minutes or more while my normal games last for 30 minutes or more. Why is this? Well in high bounty, you will quickly outgrow early-game and mid-game items (such as orbital command, seige pack, etc.) and eventually after an hour or so, you will all have titans with frost lasers and after that noone can improve themselves anymore (so often you will quickly reach some sort of a stalemate). You cant really use midgame strategies as effectively, and are all giant robots with huge dps there are less strategies to use. In normal mode I can get a heavy tank, a seige pack and an orbital command and their buildings die pretty fast, especially as they wont have a bazillion dps to blow me apart when I get near a base. Furthermore, in normal mode, you can actually use factories to heal as the enemy wont all teleport instantly to it and blow it up in 2 seconds. Also, creeps are stronger relative to tanks in normal mode (as tanks are weaker), which gives a much bigger advantage to the attacker when sieging. In hb there are much less viable tactics; tinkering or mining isn't worth it, because there isn't enough time to build towers or create mines, so in hb I always go a scout with 1 or 2 bombard cannons to start to get fed.
Anyway, I voted #7, because it is a noob mode and I'm so sick of it being the only thing hosted.
peace
