Paintball Anyone?

[Sean]

Ok, This being my first post on the forum I thought i would make it a development idea. I know some people in game who would love to have paintball as an event.

I've searched the forums and noticed a post in the "Finished" section where Morpheus said he had a script written waiting to implement and this was dated in 2006. So I am not too sure if there has been anymore talks on development on this initiative.

So the idea is basically to have a Team PVP Paintball event where there is a red team and a blue team in an arena with each player equipped with bows that have unlimited arrows and the team with the last player standing will be the winner. Players on both teams are awarded with prizes but of course, the winning team will have the better prize at the discretion of staff. When the event is announced, players gather in a room and the admin in charge chooses two leaders at random and the leaders will choose players one at a time in turns. The event of course must have an even number of participants. There are quite a few more details but they can be worked out.

i am sure there are many of you who have played on shards that have PB as an event as I did and I would love to hear any additional suggestions.

Cheers!

[Liam]

PB is the best team event I have ever played. Would love to have it here too!

Liam

[+Zandor]

Paintball is on the back burner right now i haven't found one i like.

[OldManAlewar]

why not just a crossbow pvp event ?

crossbow Capture the flag ?

[+Zandor]

1. we don't have pvp
2. Don't want anyone to die
3. i bet a lot wont play if they them self have to die

i seen other scripts that make the player vanish to the waiting room when hit i tested one and didn't like the set up

[Sean]

Well i am totally unaware of the scripting involved and how it will work to implement a pvp type event to the current setup on excelsior. The shard that i played on was a family type pvm tram only shard with thousands of customs and the PB had the same "when you die (with one successful hit) it teleports to the team's waiting room."

Zandor if you dont mind me asking, what are the considerations in developing a PB type event for Excelsior?

[OldManAlewar]

you'd have to make a crossbow that does only 1 damage and see if you can override an onDamage() function on the bow(if there is one), to teleport someone to a set location. possibly test for team color.

[LordGaav]

i don't see the problem in dying as well. just make everyone take off all their stuff, and provide the needed game gear. they did that on my last shard and it worked fine.

[OldManAlewar]

the BaseRanged.cs class file has onSwing() and onHit()

one could code a crossbow that overrides these, so that on a hit, the target is teleported somewhere.

[Xandorr]

Ok...well as a few know who I am and where from....they also know that the love of the game paintball is strong to me too (and I ABHORE PVP). I have shard wandered a lot, and can tell you this {if +Zandor is the one in charge of events now then kinda directed to him}...there is a script out there where the bows used in the game dont do any damage, they teleport upon a successful hit the opponent back to his/her "ready room" and when there's only one color of players left on the field, then that team is the winner fo that round.

I LOVE this style of Paintball playing....Ive tried many and its a good compromise on the PVP aspect of it. With no real damage being done, it also gives new players (with less hps) a more even footing against veterans (normally with more "naked" hps)...these bows are also somehow not real skill dependant (Ill admit I dont get this part...but my lack of understanding it didnt diminish my enjoyment of it any). It allows ppl to bring OTHER skills into the game to "tip the odds towards them and make them better "Paintballers"---Skills like tracking, hiding, detect hidden, etc.

I might suggest anyone that looks around in scripts look for this script and if you can find it, present it to +Zandor and +Colibri and see if they can make it workable here with our specialized scripts (might and might not take well...but maybe can be "adjusted" to work here)....and bring us LOADS of fun from it

Thats my 2 cents on it.....

Xandorr CTH Forever

[Sean]

Once again I got to say its an absolute great PVP event catered to a PVM shard. The issues of course are the fact that no one wants to die and lose fame etc and the functionality with other scripts the shard is running. But as Xandorr and others have pointed out, there are scripts out there that can avert the dying issue. The shard i used to PB on was just as Xandorr said...when hit, you are teleported to your teams waiting area. Players are just equipped with a robe of their teams colour, a bow and some arrows.

Not sure if the archery skill was in play but it doesnt matter, its a team sport and choosing and using your team members' strengths are key to dominating. It was frustrating when i started out and was going up against vets with 120 detect hidden, archery, hiding and stealth but it made me more wanting to compete and find different strategies not to mention I became crazy with training those skills and looking for powerscrolls all to be a better paintballer.

In the end, its a great event which encourages team work, fosters community building and is an event where players need to be involved. That, i think, will bring and KEEP lots of new players and I will definitely go on the search for scripts that could be of service to the cause.

Keeping my fingers crossed on this one...

[Sean]

bump with the hopes of getting some more input on paintball....

[+Colibri]

Well i already got the bow for paintball made... just needs to be tested and an event needs to be ran.

[Sean]

Wonderful...once again thanks for the hard work Coli! I hope I am online when the test event runs...