I've been thinking about Masjin all day, and a few new things came in mind:
List of new ideas/requests:
-Possible new item:
Black Hole Generator. More or less the opposite of the Gravity Bomb. What it does is suck all players/objects/vehicles into one tiny spot in the middle for a few seconds. Can be used to prevent planes from entering your base, for instance.
-Possible new item:
Digger Bomb. More or less the opposite of the dirt bomb. Destroys a few ground/builder blocks around itself when it explodes, along with giving minor damage to anybody who is near. Could be another countermeasure against people building walls everywhere with builders. Of course we already have the miner, but this is a little different(for instance, destroy stuff from above by dropping it from a plane).
-Possible new vehicle:
Tank. I know, this has been requested a lot of times in the past, mostly been rejected because it can be blocked easily by building someting in front of it. But what if we would make it an vehicle with incredible shooting power(like the turret), armor(or make it so that the bullets of the tank deflect other bullets) and make it move slow, but have the option to drill blocks and use a jetpack(wich lasts long, but takes a long time to rise as well). This might overcome the limitations of the earlier tank-ideas and be a fun addition to the game.
-Possible new game option:
League play. This would be an option available when hosting a new game. This means that whenever anybody joins, he is not automatically put in a team, but he can see who the people in both colors are, and he can always decide which color to pick. This would mainly be helpful when trying to play games with pre-chosen teams, for instance, a competition. :D.
-Possible new upgrade: 'Leeching'. I don't know if this is a good name, but anyway
. What this does is add a few(20?) HP to you whenever you manage to kill somebody. Works for all your teammembers of course. Could come in handy in risky situations.
-Idea for more
music. I really like the music Masjin has got, and I think sojin did a great job. However, what do you think about adding another song that starts playing when one team has nearly won? (i.e., only needs to capture the last two flags/ only needs to stay in the room for twenty or less seconds, only needs to kill two more persons, etc).
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Day/Night change: The day is like Masjin is right now, but maybe with a sun in the sky. When it gets night, everything gets somewhat darker(so its harder to see stuff). However, a small light-circle around people(only the ones in your team can see it?) and a bigger one around vehicles(locked vehicle lights are only visible for the team that locked it) makes it possible to still see stuff.
The follwing is quite ambitious. You don't have to read it, if you don't want to
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-Wheater. I also really like the idea of a snowy-landscape. What if randomly the wheater changes in Masjin:
-Sunshine. Normal. Nothing happens, exept that water and snow that is exposed to the surface slowly disappears over time.
-Rain. raindrops falling everywhere. On tiles that are exposed to the surface there might form water. This water can partly or fully cover tiles. Water will flow down until there is a solid block below it(or another block filled with water). Water will distribute its filled-percentage equally to the blocks on the side of it, if there is nothing there. When people are too long inside water that fully covers their head, they will suffocate. However, water also makes it possible to swim upwards distances you would've normally not be able to jump. Swimming handling is like the jetpack, but a bit slower.
-Snow. Snowflakes falling everywhere. On tiles that are exposed to the surface there might form snow. This snow is 'slippery' and players will slide further when they stop moving.
List of Bugs/weird things:-Health packs still activate if you have full health, rendering them useless since when you have walked all the way to the enemies base, it will already be used up.
-Somehow, I managed to 'place' a mine inside an ore block, but it did not get its special placed sprite, it simply looked as if the mine was suspended in mid-air in the ore block. It did make its 'Boomgh' sound it makes when it gets placed. However, it did not explode while you walked over it. This happened a couple of times. I was able to pick up the mines again as well O_o.
-Sometimes when saying chat messages, my name isn't there anymore. It seems this has to do something with timeouts maybe? Happens both in the lobby as in-game. It seems only to happen after Masjin loses focus
. Maybe this has to do something with my internet-connection or with the new server. I don't know.
Masjin CompetitionI first want to hear Hempuli's opinion on this. At least it is great to hear that there are people still frequently visiting Masjin
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If Hempuli will try to add the League function, that will be perfect. Otherwise, we'll just have to find another way to organize things.
Other things I want to say:I really like the way the Level Editor looks. I totally agree with nahkranoth. A question about that: Is it possible to make the level bigger than it normally is? Like, more space between the bases?
Besides of that, keep up the good work. I really like the new Eingeneers, and all the other cool added features. If I ever can help you with something, tell me
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~Accident