[Septimius Severus]

Originally Posted by Gandalf Parker

heehee. I think about half of those are more "impression" than fact.
As for the rest, Im majorly in favor of unusual games and feel there is even more territory to cover. The only reason to seek a standard in the games is for ranking purposes

Yes, one certainly gets the "impression" of that from looking at a sampling of the game theads on the Dom3 Shrapnel MP forum, which is what I was generally referring to. This is especially true for noobs who may not be aware of Gandalf's server or other games and options available. I bet if we were to look at the first page only, of the MP games thread here, we would find what I have said above to be true in 95% of the cases.

Originally Posted by rdonj

Personally I do like games that do something a little different to keep things interesting every once in a while. It's like when I played starcraft. You can only play so many ffa games before you start to feel like you're just doing the same thing over and over. That's not really fun to me. It also doesn't help that I'm not really a competitive player. So I tended to gravitate more towards custom maps.

Yes, cooperative games are so important but so rare (on Llamaserver anyway), and more unusual settings and pretender builds need to be utilized. Players should have choices among modded, unmodded Dom3, hosting platform, hosting interval, team or FFA, etc.

Our emphasis on team themes in the next game will hopefully bring something different without everyone trying to cover all the bases so to speak. This would leave interesting weaknesses and strengths. Everyone seems to go with variation of E and N blesses on their pretenders. I'd like to see some D9 or B9 blesses for once. Especially in a team who's theme is death or blood.