PvP Foundry

zeusom

I would love to see the ability for a foundry to be set up as a PvP format. You make a map, set the number of players on each side (1v1, 2v2, etc), set the win parameters, can add monsters or not, add nodes or have a different goal such than node capping, et cetera. You can coordinate to enter the foundry with friends to play against. Attempting to enter the foundry would queue you.

quspiv

As long as there's no rewards for it (to prevent potential abuse) i dont mind.

crimpatul

I think that this is a great idea and could boost the game population.

There are ways to prevent abuse in the foundry. One of them is the own community. There are a lot of players that cares for the state of the game. Those players could validate a foundry with an upvote/ban system, so if a foundry is made to exploit the system (pve or pvp) the community can take it down fast. And I have no doubt that it would be the case.

Also the foundry could be required to be validated with a x% from the player base before the reward system is up inside that map.

There are a lot of systems that changed the old moderator content validation for the community upvote/discard. And its working.

The possibility of unlimited game content is there.

PS: and If a player get caught cheating the foundry Cryptic can analize the case and ban that account to prevent creating new maps, or just full ban from the game. Also the accounts that validated the cheating foundry would lose the capability of validate more new maps. At least for a period of time (not everybody is an expert checking bugs).

PS2: one of the biggest problems of the foundry is the reward, 0. Who would play a P&P AD&D with their friends if there are no loot after killing a dragon or something else? No loot, no adventure. Actually is more rewarding to play a low level skirmish in +1K RAD time with an alter that playing a foundry.

PS3: to be able to upvote a new foundry map the player must have X days played to evade bot upvote system / new account votes.

PS4: also a weight vote system can help. Players that created maps wich are validated by the community could get more weight on their votes. +X maps validated +X to their vote. So these players with more experience creating valid maps could help a lot to ban foundry cheating systems.

eldarth

Foundry authors have been asking for that for years now.

You can vote here (Foundry PvP map types) if you'd like.

These are PvP map types you can vote for:

• Arena (1v1, 2v2, 3v3, 5v5, 10v10)
• Capture the Flag
• Team Death-match/Team Brawl (no resurrections/timed resurrections)
• Domination
• King of the Hill
• Murder Ball (was called Capture the Relic in Rift)
• Resource Race

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quspiv

Last thing Cryptic needs is more reports of potential abuse from Foundry. Pretty sure they've enough work, so best thing we can expect is a system with no reward or very low reward like random green items lvl70, etc. Rewards is not everything. I've played over 20k hours in CS 1.6 with 0 rewards. It was simply very enjoyable game back then.

zeusom

eldarth wrote: »

Foundry authors have been asking for that for years now.

You can vote here (Foundry PvP map types) if you'd like.

These are PvP map types you can vote for:

• Arena (1v1, 2v2, 3v3, 5v5, 10v10)
• Capture the Flag
• Team Death-match/Team Brawl (no resurrections/timed resurrections)
• Domination
• King of the Hill
• Murder Ball (was called Capture the Relic in Rift)
• Resource Race

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Interesting at the end of that linked pvp map post:

" I left out castle/keep sieges because that would involve WAY more than just maps."

That is exactly what Stongholds is. Of all of the possible pvp types the devs chose to go from having one simple limited pvp format with 2 maps, to launch a whole mod based on the most complex pvp format. That's cool - would like to see more in between though.