2009-12-22, 01:04:21
Well, I am suggeting some major changes, you could try this: Making a more defensive orriented game type like I suggested, and giving it a try. Put something about the discussion in the loading screen, just as an idea. Truth be told, think about, do you really want to go down the "Angel Arena" road? Give it try, see how popular it is, its not like you can lose anything... Oh and by the way, The whole thing about " No open scource map" is a completely boneheaded thing to do. If someone *really* wanted to get in a make a map of BT for themselves, they could hack it just as easliy as me and polychrome did a while back to look at the scripting and see what all the random stuff was about. Trust me, those of us who are interested in the game scripting and changing the game hardly need any "Open Sorce Version" to do so. All your doing is making people who want to try to help you buzz off. There are already mock version of Btanks out there. The reason people don't play them as much as the normal is because it isn't official. People play your version because its the widely selected to play version, not because its Btanks leage or whatever. I promise you, if someone else makes your game + a bunch of popular changes, clans will start popping up again for the new games. You see? Your "Hoarding" isn't accomplishing anything, I would be happy to have the stopping code broken and give a version to someone who is interested in making this defensive Idea... The reason you shouldn't see what I'm saying as a threat is A) The other D-Btanks would be such a different game it wouldn't be competition, and B) its for the better of your game, I'm sure if its popular we would hand it to you to toy with as your own C) everyone who has a little skill with computers could hack the map, its not such a big deal as you think. Look at Bnet in general, patch after patch is released to try to stop bots and other hacks, yet always, ALWAYS, the bots prevail in the end. Let people play the version they want to play, or just stick with my suggested idea, build it, and see if its popular, you don't lose anything by trying