05-26-2005, 08:30 PM
Ack, too much to quote anymore :) Thanks for the long and excellent response.
I had seen the map for the battleground before but I had not realized how much of a bottleneck there is towards each base - it is very linear, as you have said.
As for taking the flag down disabling the tower, I think this would be worse for 'wins' than taking the tower over, if the defenders could simply raise their flag again. I am out of ideas here...
The main obstacle to winning seems to be that the final base is just too hard to take. Perhaps it needs to be toned down a bit, but perhaps, as you said in an earlier post, it is just a game mechanic that has not been discovered yet. It'll be at least two months at my current rate before I can even start to experience this battleground, so I guess I'll let you all play it madly 'till it's perfected.
As for the CTF battleground, I haven't had more fun in a long time, even though I was at the bottom of the level range, and our flag got launched up on top of a tree at some point and we couldn't get it back, which broke the round. I have the feeling I'll have more fun at this than Alterac, but who knows.
Keep us updated on how it's going! It looks like the Blizz is going to try get this as 'right' as they can before they launch since they have so much riding on BG's!
I had seen the map for the battleground before but I had not realized how much of a bottleneck there is towards each base - it is very linear, as you have said.
As for taking the flag down disabling the tower, I think this would be worse for 'wins' than taking the tower over, if the defenders could simply raise their flag again. I am out of ideas here...
The main obstacle to winning seems to be that the final base is just too hard to take. Perhaps it needs to be toned down a bit, but perhaps, as you said in an earlier post, it is just a game mechanic that has not been discovered yet. It'll be at least two months at my current rate before I can even start to experience this battleground, so I guess I'll let you all play it madly 'till it's perfected.
As for the CTF battleground, I haven't had more fun in a long time, even though I was at the bottom of the level range, and our flag got launched up on top of a tree at some point and we couldn't get it back, which broke the round. I have the feeling I'll have more fun at this than Alterac, but who knows.
Keep us updated on how it's going! It looks like the Blizz is going to try get this as 'right' as they can before they launch since they have so much riding on BG's!
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