10-10-2007, 08:27 AM
A simple time limit on the matches would solve most everything. The bonus honor gained per winning game should not change; if you earn, say, 125 honor for a winning game, you should still get the same 125. But instead of in three equal increments, make each successive capture worth more honor, with the third and final being worth the most.
With a hard-coded time limit in place (I'd say thirty minutes, which is about the same duration of a quality AB or EOTS match with evenly skilled and situated teams), teams would be encouraged to take the offensive and try to win before the time limit is up; obviously, if you only have two successful captures, you get that amount of honor at the end of the game. Whether or not you're the winner is irrelevant beyond marks of honor. After thirty minutes, both teams are awarded honor based on the number of captures they have and each receives a single mark of honor. In order to get the full three, you have to win by the standard three-capture rule. If you had no captures at the end of the match, you get no honor at all; capture the flag should never be free honor. You should have to fight for your honor every match, otherwise there's no point to do Warsong over AV unless you need the marks.
Yeah, sometimes you'll end up in a match with no healers and go the full thirty minutes with no caps to your opponent's single cap and come out with nothing, but that's the luck of the draw. Between engineering items, free action potions, swiftness potions, and a whole buttload of other dirty tricks, it's really not hard to get a single cap if you exploit the enemy team's weakness. Hell, Rocket Boots Extreme combined with a Parachute Cloak is a guaranteed cap as long as the enemies aren't on your side of the field and you have your flag.
With a hard-coded time limit in place (I'd say thirty minutes, which is about the same duration of a quality AB or EOTS match with evenly skilled and situated teams), teams would be encouraged to take the offensive and try to win before the time limit is up; obviously, if you only have two successful captures, you get that amount of honor at the end of the game. Whether or not you're the winner is irrelevant beyond marks of honor. After thirty minutes, both teams are awarded honor based on the number of captures they have and each receives a single mark of honor. In order to get the full three, you have to win by the standard three-capture rule. If you had no captures at the end of the match, you get no honor at all; capture the flag should never be free honor. You should have to fight for your honor every match, otherwise there's no point to do Warsong over AV unless you need the marks.
Yeah, sometimes you'll end up in a match with no healers and go the full thirty minutes with no caps to your opponent's single cap and come out with nothing, but that's the luck of the draw. Between engineering items, free action potions, swiftness potions, and a whole buttload of other dirty tricks, it's really not hard to get a single cap if you exploit the enemy team's weakness. Hell, Rocket Boots Extreme combined with a Parachute Cloak is a guaranteed cap as long as the enemies aren't on your side of the field and you have your flag.
ArrayPaladins were not meant to sit in the back of the raid staring at health bars all day, spamming heals and listening to eight different classes whine about buffs.[/quote]
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