Zone Games

Phalanxe · Post by **Phalanxe** » Wed May 23, 2012 3:53 pm

Spunkmeyer wrote:QUOTE (Spunkmeyer @ May 23 2012, 04:20 AM) Not much except: you are going to put a lot of effort into organizing this - I was suggesting you may consider getting smaller (as in, perhaps not as big a production with custom maps, storylines etc) but more frequent scheduled games going instead since a lot of the effort overlaps.

If not you, someone has to...otherwise we are closing up shop pretty damn soon.

yeah maybe just "alleg wars" where different fronts have diff "generals" and a galaxy map which become conquered and stuff. no real need for a good storyline, you can just add like every now and then a nice "mission" to spice things up.

SgtMajor · Post by **SgtMajor** » Wed May 23, 2012 4:26 pm

Can I be the DJ? Ill be all spamming chat and mumble: "HOLY $#@! GUYS IM ROLLING SO HARD, IM ROLLING BALLS AND DICK"

notjarvis · Post by **notjarvis** » Wed May 23, 2012 6:25 pm

Phalanxe wrote:QUOTE (Phalanxe @ May 23 2012, 04:53 PM) yeah maybe just "alleg wars" where different fronts have diff "generals" and a galaxy map which become conquered and stuff. no real need for a good storyline, you can just add like every now and then a nice "mission" to spice things up.

to be honest I think that may be over confusing and hard work to organise and sort out, and difficult to arrange.

Can we not just start by keeping it simple?

Simple scheduled "Zone Games", basically regular games with arranged decent commanders and factions and maybe hidden maps if you are feeling fancy.

Do that every week or two to try and get a bit of momentum in. then start doing fancy stuff.

Phalanxe · Post by **Phalanxe** » Wed May 23, 2012 8:34 pm

not THAT complicated, just a few numbers. besides this way u can keep certain storyline and not just a schedules pug.

add something to catch the masses.

AND

arrange good proper ZG every now and then with new maps and or core and w/e u want

Andon · Post by **Andon** » Wed May 23, 2012 9:12 pm

It's still highly complext. Best keep it simple to start - I DO think it's a good idea for a more long-term thing, but getting them going will be the hardest part, and the simpler we can do that, the better.

Phalanxe · Post by **Phalanxe** » Wed May 23, 2012 9:48 pm

so basically u're all saying schedule a glorified pug who nobody will come x times a week

Spunkmeyer · Post by **Spunkmeyer** » Wed May 23, 2012 10:33 pm

Phalanxe wrote:QUOTE (Phalanxe @ May 23 2012, 04:48 PM) so basically u're all saying schedule a glorified pug who nobody will come x times a week

Well, the trick is striking a balance obviously. But just the mere fact that it is scheduled will entice people to show up because there is the promise of *shock* *gasp* actually finding players online and if commanders are predetermined, so much the better.

One of the barriers to organizing this is these forums. The number of people reading these is actually fairly low so trying to market it through the forums only is bound to fail.

Andon · Post by **Andon** » Wed May 23, 2012 11:05 pm

Phal - At first? Yes. That's exactly what I'm saying. As Spunky said, people knowing there's a game will make them more likely to come on.

I'm not against special cores, custom maps, custom whatever. What I don't want to see at first is anything persistent. If we're not doing anything persistent, then we can change what we want to get into a nice groove without having issues of things being vastly different from one game to the next that should be the same in a persistent game.

To be entirely fair, I'd love to see a persistent zone game type deal - Perhaps not as in-depth as the Alleg Wars were since that can be a behind-the-scenes nightmare, but certainly stuff like "whoever controlls this area of the game map gets +x starting money" or having the game settings determined by where the battle takes place, and having players choose which direction things go in. (A nice system is actually falling into place as I write this). My thing is I just don't want to start big and fail miserably because it will ruin a lot of people's thoughts on the zone games. If we start small and work our way up, then we won't be setting the bar too high.

Phalanxe · Post by **Phalanxe** » Wed May 23, 2012 11:10 pm

fair enough. where do i sign in

SgtMajor · Post by **SgtMajor** » Thu May 24, 2012 12:45 am

Think about it Phal, ill only play Skrillex and Deadmau5 just for you