Game Modes

posted on June 16th, 2011, 4:06 pm

Since I haven't seen anyone talking to much about this I felt I should bring it up

Work  should be put into improving the game modes available for this game. All that is available right now for game modes is Alliance, and  Team.  Both of these are pretty nice within themselves, but it would be nice to see another style of game play added to FO. 

These are some of my ideas:
1.) Mission based game; i.e. eliminate a certain player, make 40 bases…. Etc etc
2.) Percentage win; i.e. allow players to win if map is 60% controlled by them, instead of always 100%
3.) Resource control; gain a certain amount of resources to win, also could be a mission within mission based game.
4.) Time limit; Gain as much resources/ kill as many ships and bases before timer runs out

This would significantly enhance the game  IMO.  I hope that someday FO has a mass of game modes that will enhance the PvP experience. 

posted on June 16th, 2011, 4:30 pm

And this is your opinion that this game is not fun if you dont have a ton of game mods. I think this game is just fine , if you add more game modes its going to be real pain in the A*S to start the game. I think this game need a real single player with armada 1 and 2 misions , and some more... But game mods are good as they are now.

posted on June 16th, 2011, 4:55 pm

They are not...we could use more game modes. But I will wait for the editor improvements so I can do it for maps on my own.

posted on June 16th, 2011, 5:03 pm

Zeremot, please don't be rude. It is not about an opinion here but a feature request which is perfectly right to post on the "Ideas and Feature Request" section (just to remind you where we are).

In fact the matter of game modes has been stressed a lot of times. Armada II has several modes such as assault maps, capture the flag and others. Especially assault maps very stong in use during the times when i used to play AII online. I don't know if there are any plans for such an implementation you suggested but I certainly know that your ideas will be read and considered by the devs. Personally I hope there will be missions available in the near future - even such that can be scipted by others with a bundle of tools. Imagine mini stories you could play through made by Boggz!

posted on June 16th, 2011, 5:07 pm

And this is your opinion that this game is not fun if you dont have a ton of game mods. I think this game is just fine , if you add more game modes its going to be real pain in the A*S to start the game. I think this game need a real single player with armada 1 and 2 misions , and some more... But game mods are good as they are now.

No. I like this game as is, but I would think adding more would be great.  The game makers have done a great job making this game, and I hope by giving my opinion it is implicit I mean no disrespect.

Plus it's not like after they make more modes you have to play them. Don't play them if you don't like them.

posted on June 16th, 2011, 5:17 pm

I didnt want to be rude if i was i am sorry

posted on June 16th, 2011, 6:14 pm

I would love for other games modes, especially the old A2 ones. Capture the flag would be fun I bet.

posted on June 17th, 2011, 12:43 am

Just the motivation I need to work on my Borg Space "Assault" map.  And I do agree, there should be more game modes available.

posted on June 17th, 2011, 1:40 am

I would like to see a single player mod, which I know is on the to-do list, perhaps a re-creation of the A1 campaign would be a nice fill in.

Personally as far as game mods go, perhaps some of the favourite tech-tree favourites like no special weapons etc.

posted on June 17th, 2011, 9:05 am

I'd love to see community made/ fan made multiplayer missions
Also an assault/defense mode would be cool

posted on June 17th, 2011, 10:19 am

Once the race redos are done, we will dive deeper into the environment redo (which we are just working on a bit in the background). We want to give every map a unique feel including "single-player-like" content

posted on June 17th, 2011, 3:48 pm

Sounds nice  .
I could also imagine a "kill the king mode" - every race starts additionally with a Veteran that has to survive the game, if he dies - you lose. Problem: Borg, they could however start with a Diamond

posted on June 17th, 2011, 4:35 pm

Also an assault/defense mode would be cool

Totally yes!

Another idea: Domination (like in Dawn of War 40k)
Point is to hold a strategic point for an amount of time (like 10 minutes). You can do this by either activate an ability, or build something in a specific area. Once completed (or construct started?) a timer is running for everyone else. Could be fun, depending on the map, with one or even more strategic points.

posted on June 17th, 2011, 5:00 pm

We should really revert the resources back to stock, and put trading stations and colonizable planets back in.  That way, we can utilize all game modes provided by the Armada 2 engine.  Like colonize planets, defend planets, and collect Latinum.  Well, we would need a flag object for capture the flag.  Even if crew isn't put back in, colony ships and colonizable planets should be just to be able to play those two features.  And for the sole purpose that we can play "Collect Latinum," resources should be reverted to stock.  Trading stations would be optional though, but highly beneficial.  Capture the flag only requires a single map object to be added that everyone tries to capture to win the game.

PS:
Because the Borg use collective connections, I was thinking of using sort of a cap in place of the collective connections.  I've got it all figured out on how to utilize the Fleet Cap system to simulate collective connections.  Because if we revert the resources to stock, then every faction will use all of the resources with the exception of the Borg not using Latinum.

posted on June 17th, 2011, 6:21 pm

Sounds nice  .
I could also imagine a "kill the king mode" - every race starts additionally with a Veteran that has to survive the game, if he dies - you lose. Problem: Borg, they could however start with a Diamond

^^^^^
I think this is the best idea yet! Problem how do you resolve cloaking? I say simplest fix = removing all cloak from king ships.