posted 05-29-2001 09:02 PM         

You haven't yet ? Do so.

Notice : You are currently loosing precious time that you could use reading post that actually bring something new.

Too bad for the ones that are still reading.

Of course there is the fact that there is usually more people centerkilling on freq 1 compared to freq 0 but everyone already knows that. But that has nothing to do with my post.

My post is about something especially important with the map we have been using for quite a while now. Something that makes almost no difference for the people who are centerkilling. But makes a huge difference for the people that are flagging.

It is called "Wall Bombing". A great aspect of the game that allow bomber from outside a base to attack people inside a base by bombing wall. And because of the bomb explosion it damages ships that are near, near the wall that is getting bombed.

What i'd like to point out is the fact that the Rebel freq (AKA freq 1) is nearly unable to efficiently wall bomb. Many of you have seen advanced players wall bomb as they could in Levi (ship 4) doing the best they can and hardly killing anything. On the opposite it is awfully easy to wall bomb in Javelin (ship 2).

On the very well known map with G2 and R2 bases Wall bombing was present but not especially effective or used. Cloud city, G2, R2, and other were bases where wall bombing was almost absent.

On the new map, almost every base is "wall bombable". Droid, Main reactor, T20, Barking frog, Manufacturing plant. All the bases that are used the most. Other bases includes "machine-" base, as anyone tried to defend this one ? seems impossible. There is also ladies, some parts are wall bombable but nothing really important.

Wall bombing helps Empire (freq 0) a lot. And im asking everything but to remove wall bombing. I love wall bombing, whenever i can, i wall bomb. But i feel there is something unbalanced about this.

I have no good ideas.

And i am sorry for all the people still reading this idiotic post.

posted 05-29-2001 11:19 PM         

Yeah... I'd rather see wallbombing stop altogether. Why do you want twice as many people choking up droid and other such bases?

On another note, freq 1 ships are already powerful enough in flagging situaions. Why give them any more advantage? Besides, bouncing bombs are a great boon to those who use them properly.

If you really want to wallbomb, play a jav. I would suggest using other tactics to win a flagging game, though. Wallbombing is a nuisance.

------------------
BloodDrinker
{Eminence}

posted 05-30-2001 01:23 AM            

Lame? perhaps. Nuisance? Far beyond it. At some places it's as effective as flooding bullets down a hallway ... Where the latter measures on the lameness scale might depend on which you like flying more, fighters or bombers. hint hint. : P

Balance? IMO it's the base/map maker's job, not the sysop in charge of the settings. Just as you can make bases that favor non-bounce bombs, you can also make bases that favor bouncing bombs. That's all.

posted 05-30-2001 08:57 AM         

As for doing it in a Levi, it should be no harder than in a Javelin..but given the skill level of a typical wallbombing faggot, I can understand why they whine.

posted 05-30-2001 02:25 PM            

and about taking it out...that's just impossible. there's no way that can be enforced. if you want to ban people who wall bomb, you might as well just ban people who fire bullets.

posted 05-30-2001 05:20 PM            

i can be solved. just amke the bases an extra wall thicker than normal. have all the hallways have two walls instead of just one.

or to the extreme of having the sysop take out the setting that says explosions on walls take damage.