Siegers
How many of you like siege? Or are at least willing to give it a shot? This is by far my favorite gametype, and I know quite a few others who love it. All I want to do is play a big game of siege again, its been too long. Red Shifter told me that fishie was gonna bring back the pond... but we shall see. I'm curious who's interested in it though.
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To do Siege effectively with live people, I think there would need to be some good practice beforehand. There was one night on the Goon server that we surprisingly voted to run a Siege map, Alcatraz, but there is a apparently a "secret" trick on that map that enabled the capturing team to win in just under a minute, before the rest of us had even made it through the invo stations for the initial loadout. Since I know most/all the Siege maps have multiple, sometimes less-known, entries into the base, effective defense would mean knowing where they all are and how they could be exploited, and I think that would take numerous sessions of Siege to get right.
Most siege maps really are not too difficult, but it does focus a lot on speed and teamwork. Alcatraz does have a "backcap" along with Gauntlet and others. Most maps really are not that hard to figure out as long as you know how to read because I would be spamming what to do haha. But there are A LOT of shitty siege maps, beware.
If enough people were interested perhaps we could have siege pickup games where those who turn up 'must' be familiar with the maps ie. where the gens are, what gens do what, and where the switches are. That way a team captain could efficiently set roles and I think it would work really well.
Some of my best memories of Tribes 2 were the various siege ladders I took part in with some T2 buddies both in the USA and Australia. It was always a shame that more people did not seem to get into the Siege gametype.
Any Siege server would need unbalanced maps like Masada removed from the rotation.
Ahhh.. masada (nuff said). I tried to get a siege PU a few weeks before tribesnext happened. 4 people showed up. But this is also back when rebels was the most popular server *cringe*
I would help pay for a new pond server but I'm moving soon and unsure if I will have enough cash flow to afford that. But I'm more than willing to help organize a siege pu, as well as teach siege noobs the maps
I'd be up for that, let me know!
DO IT
How many people can you host/me or red shifter will give you a great list of maps we should play.
[23:22:24] just have to config/tweak it
[23:22:30] FUCK YEA
[23:22:37] thats what i was hoping you wer egonna say
[23:23:53] cant wait man
[23:24:02] are you gonna put classic on it?
[23:25:04] already done
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Can you feel the excitement?
But yes I love siege more than ctf so I'm really excited about this.
I agree! also a link to TS/Vent for noobs who don't yet have it.
http://www.the-pond.net/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&p=58583#58583
Sweet!
Should be able to make it. I'll see who else I can dig up too.
I am moving this weekend and my computer will be in a box.
VGS