Capture the flag - An online time waster!

[Heliocon]

Originally Posted by speculum jockey

Had an idea for another miltiplayer mode that I'm sure a lot of people would enjoy. Capture the flag. Go to Unreal tournament, Quake III, lots of other older games that are still being played online after 10 years or more. One of the most popular play modes is capture the flag (CTF).

Two opposing sides on a smaller map. The rules are simple. Fly through the open hangar at the enemy's airfield and cap their flag. You'll have defending AA guns and planes trying to stop you, all the while the other team is trying to do the same thing. To score a point you have to fly through the enemy hangar and cap their flag, make it back to your base a fly through your hangar. If someone takes you flag you have to shoot them down to retake it.

I know it's not a realistic game mode, but no more "immersion killing" than most dogfight servers with their endlessly respawning planes.

We already have the planes, the maps, AA guns, and Hangars. All you need are two hangars with doors open at both sides and people who want a quick action-packed game without having to dedicate 3+ hours of their life to it. Sounds like it wouldn't be hard to implement for one of the many patches I'm sure we're going to see this year.

What say you Banana forums?



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Holy cow, I didnt even look at this thread all week because I thought it would be a flamefest/bad implementation of CTF. You sir (op) are brilliant (until later when I find an opportunity to call you other names )

[mazex]

And then we have the old F29 Retaliator mode where you start on the ground on an air field at opposite sides of a small map. A target coordinate and type scrolls the screen like "E4 - Bridge". Then the first one destroying it gets one point and a new random target appears. First one to 5 (or x) points win...

F29 was my first aerial multi player experience on 386 computers with two computers connected with null modem serial cable in 1989... Those where the days

Mazex

[CrazySchmidt]

I love capture the flag game play and let us not forget that this this is only a game after all.

CTF could easily be an isolated mode of game play so as not to offend the purists.

Bring it on, I'd pay another $50 if it worked well.

Cheers, CS.