Why I gave up on CTF

@PumpkinTerrorist
I farmed on my laptop back when I had 5 fps.

@Xelasi
I only quit 2 before and that was due to these problems:
Time #1: My house changed to Xfinity, and with Netflix, 3 PCs, and 7 phones it was a pain in the ass to play. I came back after I got my own network.
Time #2: I wanted to play Evolve because it was a "more updated" version of CTF. While it has it's own flaws, I loved it. However, it was a resource intensive game and I only got 5 fps on it with my laptop.

As for if MCPVP completely died, it did in a way. I'm not just living in nostalgia. Since the transfer, nothing performance has improved. I still get connection issues on CTF, whereas other servers and on Evolve, I don't.

It's a matter of finding the updates. You'd think that Brawl would post them in update logs, but it seems like THEY don't even want to accept CTF as a new Brawl game. IMO, they keep it updated with other games, but why is CTF the exception? https://www.brawl.com/forums/65/

That was only a point. I could give a **** about BBH. People knew and hated him. And I don't know anyone outside of CTF other than a few build mods with spot-on logic and reasoning.

I get data movement and transfer. Not all companies label their data or store it the same way. But theres "soon" and an eta. But having stats on here feels different from it being on MCPVP.

I get the map limit, but frankly more maps isn't a reason to donate for me, since I have no return investment. As for the rank, unlikely that I'll get it.

I understand how you feel (since this post blew up) and I do have a problem communicating my thoughts. Then, on top of that is my short term memory loss where I forget why I posted this. My intent wasn't to rant, but explain myself.

@Admiral_Munson
If you want to spread religion, please go to christian mingle.

@MrWaffleman
It's not the quantity of updates, it's the quality of the updates. I don't have a problem with Nom either. IF you actually read my post you would have saw that I did notice it's easier to dictate a coder, but it's hard not to when they keep it on the hush-hush. There is no hype when an update doesn't have an eta or any leaks.

@ReubenS
This is my last post. I'm done worrying about what happens to ctf, mainly because I don't care anymore. If you though this was a quitting post, re-read the post because you've missed the point then.

@AdamLovesBarca
I don't look at it like I'm leaving. Evolve isn't far from CTF. TBH, they just released tier 5 Trapper and the tier 5 assault came a month before. I have yet to see anything added to CTF that is class related. And before Evolve releases a class, they test it making the game different, yet not unbalanced like CTF is.

@Sir_Inge
While I don't stalk the Evolve forums, they run into the same ordeal. People give ideas, they look at the ideas, but don't add the ideas. IF they did, then people would brag about how it was their idea, taking lawsuits, but that is on a whole new tier of a game. There is 0 reason for Brawl or even MCPVP to disban people's ideas.
1. But I heard they added the anti-hack. How's that turn out(it was a joke, however many months for a simple anti-hack)?
2. Like I said, "soon" and an eta are different Evolve AT LEAST gives an ETA on updates. Jack(new class) was said to be released on the 12. IT was.
3. Banners was an example of de jure and de facto. While it was good in theory, it was horriple in practice. Assassin was useless when I played as it because you'd have to wait for the flag to land. Well, after using assassinate you were vulnerable.

Evolve is the perfect example of an a-symmetrical game, while it is all balanced out. They tested the game for 4+ months before releasing it. A++ for them.

@iAMBridgeDweller
HAHAHAHAHA wow. I have been waiting since 2012 to get any sort of major update that creates someting that adds onto the game, not takes it away like the banner for the flag. This was a reason why I left in the first place. **** doesn't look like it's being done, when that hypotheses is proved wrong and an update is turned over, it's half-assed and/or unnecessary.

@wintergreen3 and I'm happy that people will stay on CTF. It was a great community and like every community, it has bumps like the Paladin issue. Evolve is CTF on a higher-skilled level. If you love ranged combat then you'd like Evolve. Everyone has a role, and that affects the outcome of the game. Then they keep it updated and add new classes. Recently they released tier 5 trapper. CTF was my base, now Evolve is my skyscraper.

@Lord_Roke
WHAT?!?!? You held a poll for removing instakills? Now that is by far the only time something of that magnitude was held.

As for ETAs, Evolve does it just fine. Matter of fact, it comes down to leveling the class, aka, weaken and strengthen it's areas. It's like how Assassin was edited to have 2 sugar and 1 redstone. I forgot if they added another redstone or not during the transfer.

"the removed helmet just makes it a bit more challenging to capture a flag, it is not a game breaking problem." WHAT v2?!?!?!?!? When you are leaving the flagroom and you are outnumbered, you mean to tell me that it's not a problem? Or even that ninjas do more damage to these classes, making it's recover rate even higher?

 

@Lord_Roke @Sir_Inge

To settle this debacle, here is a snip-it of a page about armor:



"The player's current protection level is represented visually by the armor bar. Each defense point (1 ()) represent 4% damage reduction. With all 20 shown full, the player has a total of 80% damage reduction. The armor meter is affected by the particular pieces that are worn, as well as the tier of the armor. Different combinations of armor provide different levels of defense.

The following table shows the amount of defense points added by each individual piece of armor, as well as the total points added by a full set of armor for each material."

Now using simple math, a diamond helmet is 3 points (1.5 bars). Since the reduction rate is 4%, you are giving up a total of 12% (3*4) just to have a cosmetic change. And that is just for heavy alone. Leather is weaker making it non as important as Diamond, but when they have a heavy-hitting defense with a hellava damage output, when you pick up that flag you are giving up 12% of your damage reduction. As said above, 80% (all 20 filled) is the max at non-enchant level. Leaving you with 68% damage reduction. That is the difference between life and death. With Ninja already being a heavy hitter, you take more damage from them. The least damaged classes would be Pyro and Chemist (leather caps) but you are still giving up 4% reduction. If you want to carry this discussion out any longer, if you have a job, start asking for 4%-12% less than what you already make.