[UI] Spaceball Reloaded.

So, here's my idea, not sure if something similar has been suggested before as I couldn't find anything:

There's 3 balls in the middle of 4-4 obviously 1 for each company, the balls spawn just next to the 3 middle gates, the idea is the same as Spaceball but with a twist.

Any company can shoot any of the balls, so if MMO score a goal with their ball, they score 1 point, however if MMO score a goal with either of the other 2 companies, they score 3 points or maybe 5.

That's not all:

ONLY those who shoot the ball (with any laser of their choice) are eligible to collect the cargo's, those who choose not to shoot the ball will see cargo's but they will show up as "cargo's which are not free" so if they steal them, they lose honor just like stealing all other cargo's.

Finally, the winning company will receive a 15% honor, experience or damage boost for the whole of the following day or some similar rewards, that's up to bigpoint to decide.

 

I could see this working ..but u know it would bug out like other events..but a good idea..

 

Top idea in my opinion, maybe a few tweeks here and there but the overall idea is spot on.

 

Current Spaceball isn't acceptable, this idea would solve the problems.

 

Yeah but what about multicompany clans that have all company players? If they shoot the ball it would slow it down and eventually start going backwards.

 

Brilliant idea. It'll weaken the grasp of MCCs. People will have to shoot it now instead of sitting at port xD

Unfortunate for them, they don't get to play. They need to be in their company specific clan.
Besides, anyone in MMCs tend to be strong enough to where SB isn't going to benefit them as it would newer players.

 

benefits them plenty, all the kills they can get from all sides

 

good idea. I would change just a little. Have the spaceball only to be moved by only the one company that can score the goal. no one else can move the spaceball . 3 balls 3 companies.. perhaps it would be easier. And add that NO mines can be put on the map also.

 

Sounds to me like it's inviting new players to the map to get killed sounds good, problem is DO doesn't have enough players for this i don't think. I have been in SB the last few times and there is clans that don't care about the SB they kill players while the others collect booty. Even if your same company they don't care they will kill you anyways. DO needs to figure out a way to penalize them for this and not loose honor cause they don't care about that if they kill a couple players each of their own company is nothing to them to loose a couple thousand honor to wreck the game so players leave or log out. Hence the reason there is not enough players, i say if a player shoots and kills a company member during SB they should get a 30 min suspension from 4-4 map something like that. DO want's event's to be fair how is SB fair when all company's can't play cause their being hunted. In other event's like CC or Icy's they are on all maps which these bully clans can't control all of them all the time but SB is all factions on same map so the strongest faction that day basically gets all the rewards.

 

I just thought of this, How about they make spaceball like refraction zone no group and no chat that way all players in spaceball are on their own they can't call their company for help to kill all the other players and they can't just click the follow button to help they would be on their own. Then if you want to kill players that's fine but some players would go collect booty and it would come down to who would collect it first. This would make it harder for them to control spaceball so everyone would have the same chance of collecting from it. Enjoy

 

If a company can only shoot a company specific ball then whats the point of spaceball? Spaceball is pretty much soccer and only one team can score on one ball, so what would be the point of spaceball if there is no competition?

And multi company clans are the last frontier for servers to be honest. If you have a multicompany clan you can kill any people who don't have a clan, so that eliminates the negative honor system everyone hates.

So why should people in multi company clans be punished for playing the game? For example, many of my clan members in my server have moved over from VRU to EIC and MMO because VRU is too small of a company to chase rank or pop any no-clan people laying mines on our CBS. So instead of causing conflict over rank and petty issues like cube leechers, they simply switched company.

 

No chat so people can't call for help? most big clans these days are on teamspeak or something of that sorts. If seen people work together in refractions too.

3 balls would create some competition if only the company that scores first gets the point. No there's just one guy shooting the ball, and the rest let him to collect on the rewards.

There was a time that the winning company got something, like 5% more EP for everybody for 24H. Do they still do that?

Collecting rewards only for those who shoot the ball: Count me in

 

Still if there was no chat even if they use ts, no group will surely allow others to slip through and get the rewards. Asking if they still get the 5% xp just tells me either you haven't played the game much or just not SB so you really don't know what is happening on the map lately. Answer to your question is yes all event's have a reward for the winning faction. Enjoy

 

I play enough,
I just stay away from SB, and some other events,
They cost more than they gain.

 

Ammo is too expensive....unfortunately we are not paid for having fun...

 

I say you should just take Spaceball for what it is right now. Back then Spaceball occurred only a few times a year, now it's online every week. So why demand all of these changes when they were already nice enough to let this event become a weekly one?

There's nothing anyone can do about the dominant clan and/or company in your server(unless you beat them of course), if they rule Spaceball then just steal the boxes cloaked up in a spearhead, there is no drone damage anyways.

And if you're in a server such as GA1 or GE1 where the server is populated, and it's impossible to do spaceball, then that sucks for you.

In all honesty, I hate to throw everyone under the bus, but this whole thread seems to be an attempt to curb the main idea of Spaceball. Rather than it being a competition between companies and clans you just want the Spaceball to hand out free stuff because you shot the ball with x1 lasers.

To address multi company clan issues, it still would work the same as it has for years-The VRU/EIC/MMO company in a MCC can just shoot the ball to the port and the rest of the clan can take the cargo, it wouldn't matter how many Spaceballs are on the map.