Hello Mod developer,
You said the following:
"Re: The round system.
I toyed with the idea of a round based system, but I couldn't get it to work the way I wanted.
What would happen when someone enslaved everyone else? Would he score, say, 10 bonus frags? 1 frag for each slave he owns? Or would frags be completely gone and the only way to score points is to enslave everyone else? (like CTF, where frags don't matter) That last one doesn't work because then you couldn't specify a fraglimit.
I'll play around with it some more, but no promisses."
And I would like to say IMHO that something other than the current way the mod works is needed. I just played it and I like it but it ends within a few minutes if a player is any good at all. I mean you have to put like 15 bots on a map to make it last for awhile (unless you play in Inhuman or Godlike mode). Jailbreak seems similar to this game in the respect that once you "clear" a map you've won but then JB continues so you don't have a big break in the action and have to load another map ... your mod stops and you have to restart a game and this just interrupts the flow of the game. Now this is a cool game and if you don't want to go with the round based approach what about this:
Each map represents a "level"; Let's say you can have a 15 level Enslavement "camp", as it where ... each level would be represented by a map so that you can specify how many levels (maps) you want a game/campaign of Slave Master to have. Then once you enslave everyone on one level you automatically load the next map and the action continues. No having to start over and break the action.
Perhaps you can make an option for the maps (levels) to load in either a random fashion, repeat, or sequentially ... much like a CD playlist. Also maybe you can have an option to put several random new bots in who are free and start out with lots of health and weapons/ammo on each next level as you progress so your slaves and you have bigger challenges as the game goes along ... this might be too much in the short run but could add a nice "Chaotic and Unreal" environment as the mod matures. Just think how cool it would be to have enslaved four Skaarj on Antalus and then have to face two juggernauts and two Gen Mokai who have boosted weapons and health on the next map and so on.
So that no map get's overly crowed you could make a "soft-coded" requirement for the game like the maps chosen for any session should be 6-10 or greater but no less than 4-6. Then as the player moves up in the levels and the random free players are being added to the maps you can have an option of how many current slaves you want to "take wih you" as you begin the next enslavement campaign. So that if the next level adds two free enemies you can take 2 out 4 of your slaves with you onto the next map ... for example ... thus keeping a map from getting overloaded and lagging all over the place. I'm sure you get the idea.
Anyway I do like your mod and hope that you can find an answer to the interruption problem so that I can play a long 45 minute match and end up with like 50 slaves when it's all said and done. Peace and feel free to let me know how you like my suggestions. Keep up the good work and keep the orginal ideas flowing. Peace.
- UT200x Addict
