Zapstreaks/Lifestreaks

[Lone Wolf]

Ok so its like this:

5 ZAP Streak/1:30 alive without dying streak= 2x energy for 30 secs.

10 ZAP Streak/3:00 alive without dying streak= 2 loadouts without loadout zone

15 ZAP Streak/5:30 alive without dying streak= "Death Lazer" (Has a huge laser fire, but you cannot move and it lasts about 5 seconds, but vaporizes all ships, mines, forcefields, turrets and Spy Bugs it touches.

And you can activate these whenever.

Just a thought. What do you think?

[karamazovapy]

https://code.google.com/p/bitfighter/is ... ail?id=137

'nuff said.

[ZoombeR]

love it.
whatever it is, just the idea.
I find myself alive alot. i want a bonus.

[Skybax]

How will this work in regards to idle or afk players?

[ZoombeR]

How will this work in regards to idle or afk players?

What's the advantage of a power up if you aren't around to use it?

[karamazovapy]

The issue I added to the google code list came up because the implementation of
"ChumpChange killed Playa, Playa, Playa, Playa, Playa"
looked pretty bad in context. They wanted to revert to the current single-name system, but I thought it would still be neat to recognize bad assery. But you might need a quick update before I explain anymore.

The current team selection system rates players in a way that may not reflect ability very well. As a trial, we're going to start using Kill/Death ratio (without suicides) as the new team sorting metric. Getting one of the new kill achievements will (hypothetically, since it hasn't been coded), add a tiny boost to your K/D ratio and increase your ranking. As another option to consider, I suggested including performance-based bonuses that pay you back for being awesome. I believe I suggested automatically having your health restored for a lesser accomplishment, having your energy burn 25% slower for a bigger one (until you're killed), or something like having one particular module have a lower energy cost than usual (until you're killed) for a special case accomplishment.

I think the accomplishment titles are good, and even the K/D boost. Doing something useful or impressive is an indicator of skill and should make you more favorable for team selection. I'm not sure whether the additional boons or buffs or whatever you want to call them are a good idea. If we go that route though, I'm not sure we should choose benefits that directly impact other players, like stronger or faster weapons. Even an energy increase is a little sketchy, unless you're just talking about a single restoration or general regeneration time. At most, we should test with things that will have a small impact on gameplay and see how often accomplishments come up in the first place.

You expect me to read all of that?

[karamazovapy]

No.

[Skybax]

How will this work in regards to idle or afk players?

What's the advantage of a power up if you aren't around to use it?

I'm not talking about afk or idle players getting speed boosts, I'm talking about people killing afk or idle players to rack up kills without dying to get speed boosts.

[karamazovapy]

I believe there is some form of push-button-to-respawn in the works. Possibly only for idle players. Not clear on the details.

[ZoombeR]

No.

I read the whole thing. I can't agree more. Nor, is there probably anything else I can add, but I just want to express my gratitude for the idea.

[sam686]

I kind of not like this idea that affects game play. Problem, it makes strong players get stronger, and weak players get weaker. Strong players could run away from other strong players and go after weak players for easy kill streak. Weak players includes players that are new to Bitfighter.

[karamazovapy]

I kind of not like this idea that affects game play. Problem, it makes strong players get stronger, and weak players get weaker. Strong players could run away from other strong players and go after weak players for easy kill streak. Weak players includes players that are new to Bitfighter.

Any buffs would dissipate as soon as you were killed, so they'd only be as useful as you made them.

Whether the achievement boons happen or not, I think the special text descriptions are fun, and I think they should impact your future team sorting.

[bobdaduck]

What if we just had a visual effect for such bonuses, and not anything that affects gameplay?

Yes it should affect matchmaking.

[ZoombeR]

What if we just had a visual effect for such bonuses, and not anything that affects gameplay?

explain...seems kind of pointless, but maybe i'm wrong, unless you mean visual effects others can see. that might be kind of cool

[watusimoto]

I think his idea was to provide some recognition without affecting game play.

No affecting gameplay. That makes the game unbalanced, because those who are doing good get even more powerful.

[ZoombeR]

So, something the others can see, like a crown on their ship or something, as an example?

[Little_Apple]

How about a colorful orb orbiting the player's ship?

[Lone Wolf]

Or a nyan tail?