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Outpost Series Games => Outpost 2 Multiplayer => Topic started by: Sirbomber on October 17, 2007, 06:34:12 AM

Title: Survivor Poll
Post by: Sirbomber on October 17, 2007, 06:34:12 AM: I'm sure you all remember the Survivor maps. I was reading through the very first thread about Survivor. Despite all the initial excitement, it got very little attention once it was actually ready to play...

Of course, even though the majority of people don't play Survivor, the people who made it do, and now we want to popularize it! Again.

So, I'm asking all of you how you think Survivor could be improved!

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Don't just answer the poll question! Tell us what you think!
Title: Survivor Poll
Post by: Hidiot on October 17, 2007, 09:51:57 AM: Make those players cooperate more. Also, adding a 2nd AI on another side of the map from the first one, could add that element of "crossfire" to it :D

Make it 5 players max and ore value depend on the number of players.

I'd go as far as asking if you'll take any new person on the creation team :P
Title: Survivor Poll
Post by: Quantum on December 28, 2007, 05:20:23 PM: Survivor is already boring it needs less surviving and more combat!
Title: Survivor Poll
Post by: Hooman on December 28, 2007, 07:27:46 PM: Error 500 Internal Server Error. :o
Title: Survivor Poll
Post by: Tellaris on December 28, 2007, 11:18:55 PM: The original thread has some ideas that could probably be integrated to some degree. Its also been debated there. Perhaps provide a link to that old thread?
Title: Survivor Poll
Post by: Leviathan on January 02, 2008, 06:35:13 AM: Keep up the good work on these maps!

Thanks :)
Title: Survivor Poll
Post by: Highlander on January 02, 2008, 08:30:15 AM: Well, what would make things harder would be to decrease the general amount of ore on the map. This can be done either by fewer mining locations or lower yields.

Personally I like the evacuations. Getting the right spot for your base should be made more important I think though. Now you can easily settle for a 3 bar and rare is your only concern. But then we end up back the the first point, less ore.

I think a more varied cooperation level could be good. some maps where you are dependant on co-operation, others were you would have to fight some. (Less mining locations would force people to fight for their survival perhaps?)

I like the storyline of OP2 and playing through the campaigns I used to like the reinforcements coming out of nowhere aswell as the post-release demo where you had to collect a spaceship part. So personally I would like to see a more thorough build up maybe, with players recieving additional buildings vecs as reinforcement. Spaceship parts could also be scattered around the maps for free spaceship elements or free research ? Dunno what is possible here though ? ** Got some ideas here which can be discussed, but I am not sure what actually can be implemented **

Generally, I would focus on leaving players with less ore to toy around with. That way everything would be more valuable and survival harder. Just my 2 cents.

EDIT: I also like the enemy to have a base we can attack. Spawning points is just annoying. Something concrete to fight and be wary of is much preferable to loads of units just rolling into the maps.
Title: Survivor Poll
Post by: Sirbomber on January 02, 2008, 06:21:46 PM: Yes, less mines with lower yields is definitely something important, but we also have to make sure people can still survive with less ore. Buildings and starship parts are very expensive, after all.
Title: Survivor Poll
Post by: Mcshay on January 02, 2008, 06:23:29 PM: Another thing to think about is that we want all players to be able to play the game with a reasonable shot at winning. The changes made must be balanced across multiple skill levels (using starting resources list box).
Title: Survivor Poll
Post by: Sirbomber on January 02, 2008, 06:26:29 PM: We've really got to work on making Morale Unsteady a feasible way to play the game...
Title: Survivor Poll
Post by: Arklon on January 02, 2008, 06:28:28 PM: Quote
We've really got to work on making Morale Unsteady a feasible way to play the game...
It is? But evacing residences and other morale structures is annoying.
Title: Survivor Poll
Post by: Highlander on January 02, 2008, 06:52:24 PM: Can the ore cost of spaceship part be made costlier and other stuff cheaper ?
Perhaps even research longer ?

That way, if you can then have a wide range of spaceship parts, research, buildings etc scattered around the map, surveying around for those things would become highly valuable ?

Getting a free research suddenly done, or a free spaceship parts could really save you some time.
If you in addition could get maybe a building or two, or a couple of tigers as reinforment that could be really helpful aswell.. ?