Originally posted by hitech:
Karnak:
DING DING DING, Give the man a cigar, Those are the resones we don't give much a death penalty.
Basicly it comes down to, if the primary goal is living, why fight when you have a choice.
Ive experainced playing settups where death was to much a penality. On the extream is was a one life to live per night arena. In the not so extream it was AW's EOL system.
Players tended to always run if there was a small chance they might die by fighting.
HiTech
HiTech
But HT, you do have death penalties...and rewards.
Check the perk system: Highly visible points birds like the F4U4, ME262, AR234. All of these birds will cause a player to throw caution to the wind for a chance at building up points. I've proven it by dragging a dozen dweebs at a time in a 262 or F4U4. They all broke off an attack on a base to try to get me.
Then there are the scores: Ranks for fighters, Bomber, Vehicles, Boats, Over All, Squads...etc.
All of these are incentives and punishments.
Obviously we don't all share the same views on what is important.
Lots of the newer players like the furball, while many of us experienced folk love the strategic base capture.
A good ballance of both is nearly impossible to attain, and seperating the community is an idea that sucks.
I like the idea of penalty for death, but I think that a penalty for EVERY death would stink.
Perhaps a timer applied system?
Say, if you have 4 deaths in an hour, then Death 5 would invoke a 5 minute time out (muting communications on all but Squad chan. should be part of this
). After the time out, the counter would be at 0. (of course it would suck to not be able to kill NHCouger 20 times in a vulch, but I'll live
)
This type of system would induce some sense of consequence and perhaps allow us to have lower perk penalties on the good stuff.
Viper
