Add cooldowns in CTF - magic wall, teleport.

[wreckognize]

Teleport clearly needs a cooldown anytime it's a mountless environment, otherwise template diversity gets thrown out the window in favor of mages.

Magic wall is also a powerful spell in CTF, given the late addition of those half walls. It's a team event, but as it is now it doesn't need to be a team effort to effectively use walls.

I propose that anytime a player is not mounted, targeting either teleport or wall will cause a cooldown of 6 seconds for both of those spells.

I believe it is a nice flowing cooldown for teleport, and with magic wall you will still be able to cast and target a second one before the first one falls. You just wont be able to single-handedly compete using magic wall versus another player who is using nearly double the mana and cast time to dispel only a portion of the wall.

Making it globally reliant on weather or not you are on a mount will also be great for fixing the same problems in other mountless areas of the map.

 

[Bromista]

Been playing straight dexer in events for the last year or so. Gave up the ability to teleport and cast/dispel walls...so I basically gave up the ability to keep up with those players who also use their template well.

The sacrifice has been well worth it to me though. Maybe it's not to you. Perhaps that's because of poor template choice on your part or poor ability to play those templates. But it's certainly no fault of the game mechanics.

 

[Arch Enemy]

lol this thread again. maybe you should stop playing that shitty mage with full plate/parry flagger template and get good at the game and then you won't have to complain about this stupid shit constantly.

 

[wreckognize]

''One must always be civil when debating game mechanics for best results.''
-Hanes, Best Player Ever


The teleporting issue is widely accepted as imbalanced and I've seen a few complains about it recently for other mountless areas like the orc fort and booty isle. So there's really no need to debate it anyways.

IMO the walling is a no brainer also, given that you can cast like 14-15 walls before running out of mana, which costs over 200 mana to dispel, meaning you need 2 mages to dispel the efforts of one mage. This suggestion would make it so that you would need a friend to help you completely dodge the PvP aspect of a PvP oriented sport. Making walls and dispelling walls is boring.

Magic walls are also more powerful in other mountless zone as well. It takes a while to run around a wall, so if you're chasing someone and their blue healer buddy is walling you, it's pretty much as effective as if he were paralysing you in a mounted zone. Again, it boils down to dodging PvP and so that's why I suggested the global fix rather than a harder to code, CTF specific fix.

 

[Bromista]

Everyone is mountless. Everyone has the same tools available to them. Your points are moot.

Let's talk about scoring. Let's talk about duration and opportunity for scoring from event to event.

This is a suggestion thread but it's largely a cry IMO and not worth giving any further attention to beyond this post.

[/thread]pls

 

[wreckognize]

Everyone is mountless. Everyone has the same tools available to them. Your points are moot.

''Everyone has the same tools available to them'' - meaning you think everyone should have to play the same overpowered template?

That's the opposite of the 'template diversity' that good game balance promotes and makes PvP interesting. Hence the suggestion.

 

[Bromista]

So having only magery, no other skills required to cast the spells mentioned, = OP template.

Right.

What stats do you run on your healer scribe stun parry mage? Are you running 100 STR 100 DEX 25 INT? No wonder you are running out of mana so fast. Maybe you should work meditation into your template? Just a thought.

In case anyone is wondering the OP's 6th and 7th skills are anat and wrestle. He has forgone meditation in his build.

Lol @ OP template talk coming from the guy running a healer scribe stun parry mage.

Just lol.

PM me for advice on [templates if you wanna run with the big dogs.

 

[wreckognize]

I can assure you you're not making any sense at this point. I haven't even played any events since early January, 2 months ago. What's really funny is that it only took 2 months to get almost double the eventscore you've earned by playing the entire time.

Healer scribe stun parry mage is boss, and no, not running 100 dex my man. That would be pretty ridiculous.

But I think you're missing the point here, which is that 100 med and 100 mana isn't enough to make any difference. You still have to dispel walls until you're out of mana, then med, then dispel more walls, during what is supposed to be fast paced PvP action. It's lame.

To the readers: Try to ignore bromo, he's just upset because I pk'd him last night and got a decent amount of loot off the corpse, and trolling me here is literally his only possible recourse.

 

[LoNE WoLF]

I can assure you you're not making any sense at this point. I haven't even played any events since early January, 2 months ago. What's really funny is that it only took 2 months to get almost double the eventscore you've earned by playing the entire time.

Healer scribe stun parry mage is boss, and no, not running 100 dex my man. That would be pretty ridiculous.

But I think you're missing the point here, which is that 100 med and 100 mana isn't enough to make any difference. You still have to dispel walls until you're out of mana, then med, then dispel more walls, during what is supposed to be fast paced PvP action. It's lame.

To the readers: Try to ignore bromo, he's just upset because I pk'd him last night and got a decent amount of loot off the corpse, and trolling me here is literally his only possible recourse.

Anybody that's anybody ignores you when you post. Just saying. Bromo has a good point, something you are far from..a good point.

 

[wreckognize]

blah blah blah blah.

 

[LoNE WoLF]

I see you're still macroing that shitty attitude since our last altercation. Almost a legendary douchebag. Just need that 120 PS. I'm sure your lover, bobby has a boat load for you.

 

[Peav]

bad idea bad player. i dont even play ctf because of how easy me and @Arch Enemy got rank #1/2 within few weeks. Compare any other player on top 20 with (number of CTF's played / points earned) you will see that every time shane resets the eventscore i am #1 in terms of most average points per event. i dont even play half the events are other players and still manage to get rank 1. lol


try some skill full template and run a mage flagger instead of parry platemail rightclicker @wreckognize

 

[wreckognize]

I submit that the above poster only desired to brag about his average points per CTF (lol) and not debate game mechanics at all.

(you probably wouldn't be so bored with UO if your client didn't do all the work for you btw)

Average score is also meaningless during regular season matches because you can join with only minutes left, which many players do, including myself, and my average score is not far under yours anyways even with a few 0 point matches.

I also played more than half of those matches using a scribe fencer and not parry at all.

 

[wreckognize]

I'm sure your lover, bobby has a boat load for you.

@Bobby123 buddy you really gotta stop griefing these poor newbies so hard.

I know it's hilarious but honestly I've never seen butthurt this bad before!!

You're really causing them some serious stress, and they're forgetting where they rank among the true veterans of the shard!! @LoNE WoLF @The Gandin @Winstonian @Salsa

 

[Bromista]

I'd still be taking a shit on this suggestion whether or not you townkilled me while I was afk.

I'll give you credit where credit is due though, reg bag 1500 GP and a tinker SS is one of your biggest hauls yet. Or was it Blacksmith?

If it was BS your net would be will into the tens of thousands of gold pieces.

P.s. thanks for letting me know that you know you've lost insted of leaving me to guess

 

[wreckognize]

P.s. thanks for letting me know that you know you've lost insted of leaving me to guess

lol by the way, speaking of 'Big Dog's, how is the old fat whale doing??

 

[Salsa]

@Bobby123 buddy you really gotta stop griefing these poor newbies so hard.

I know it's hilarious but honestly I've never seen butthurt this bad before!!

You're really causing them some serious stress, and they're forgetting where they rank among the true veterans of the shard!! @LoNE WoLF @The Gandin @Winstonian @Salsa

Why did you tag me?

Oh I know... I gated half the shard into your castle CY and hours later you stopped it, thinking you had won. LOL

 

[wreckognize]

I guess my 'thinking' I've won is paramount with the facts that I still have safe recall and nobody can enter my castle, as it was before you traded your nutsack for a moist dripping vag.

It's also kind of nice being reminded how I'm simply the best UO player in the history of the game, pretty much without question at this point. I mean anyone else really would have been screwed by the lame shit you pulled right? Not the great Hanes though.

I mean let's face it, you've never beaten me at anything. I've always had way more gold, assets and nicer properties than you and everyone else here. The only time we ever PvP'd I literally wiped the field with you, without even moving 1 tile. So it doesn't make much sense when you say I'm the one who's bad.

That's alright though, to be honest it's probably better if I pretend like you've somehow bested me, at least then you won't go and do something sleazy to someone else to make you feel better about your mediocre skills in this game.

You won't say why you turned around and bit the hand that fed you, and made you, but we all know it's because you're butthurt over the $ guild. In the end you should know that I've made over 10 million gold now utilizing the tricks I used to put you in your place, once and for all.

git gud bud

 

[halygon]

And on that note, I think this thread is done.

Suggestion has been noted by staff - Thank you for providing suggestions to better the shard.

/threadlocked