Idea What I Think Brawl Can Do to Revive CTF

So firstly, before people who have no clue about what they're talking about come in and say that CTF isn't a lot smaller than before, it used to get 3,000 players at peak times and now its lucky to get over 120 players. It may not be dead, but its certainly seen better times. Also, these are just my opinions on what Brawl should do, so if they're not the same as yours then don't flame at me.

Anyways, I'm gonna begin with maps because I've already explained most of it in another post. With Brawl getting a build team, there's more time for staff (if you include the members of the build team as staff) to improve the maps small flaws. I listed all the flaws I think exist in the current maps, and I'll add to that list once Wave X has been released.

Next, about map waves. I've never really liked how the only way CTF gets maps is in waves, mostly because all maps get old no matter how many you add. I like big updates and I like map waves, but CTF should be able to get maps at times apart from map waves. Perhaps every month or so, depending on how many good submissions there are, a map or 2 is added on its own to make gameplay a bit more interesting. Every 3 months or so, more good maps are added in a map wave. The times shouldn't be set, in case there's not enough, or too many, maps to be added.

Finally with maps, I'm gonna paraphrase a CTF mod here when he said that maps are always removed with each map wave (in the Wave X announcement post). I'm guessing this means that with every map wave, mods look for maps to be removed just for the sake of removing them, whether they need to be removed or not. If that's true, it shouldn't work like this because a lot of maps are easily fixed (for example, Castle Wars could be fixed just by moving around the flagroom and spawn a bit then adding trees around the map). Of course, if its unfixable (Slums, for example), it should be removed, but if it'd take 1 or 2 hours to fix it then it should be fixed and kept.

Moving onto banners, and since mods and admins seem to hate it when people dislike it, I'm gonna be brief and not make a big deal about it - banners generally weren't liked, and although its great that you guys tried to improve how things looked, after it was added it was kinda obvious people didn't think it improved much. When updates like this happen, the easiest way to fix it is just by reverting the change and accepting that not everything works perfectly, instead of sticking with it and forcing the community to adapt.

Onto classes - so many small changes could be added to classes can help balance them. Truth is, the community only hates OP classes when they're very OP and annoying. Heavy's a powerful class, but its not drastically, game-breakingly powerful and its not an annoyance most of the time. Just a small nerf to Pyro that doesn't make it completely balanced but prevents it from being game-breakingly powerful would be great, and would take a lot less effort than thinking of a whole rework to try and make it perfectly balanced, especially considering its extremely hard to make it work out properly.

Here are some of the small changes that I think could be added to classes I think are OP (not all of them with each class, but a couple would do in my opinion):

Pyro

• Half the time you're on fire
• Slightly nerf the explosion radius
• Make fire from flint and steel last less
• Give it less steak (definitely no less than 3)
• Nerf its armour

Archer

• Nerf its armour
• Reduce the knockback from bows
• Increase the amount of blocks you need to snipe someone at to headshot them

Soldier

• This idea
• Nerf wall-climbing so soldier goes up higher (more time near the ground)

Dwarf

• Put a cap on the levels Dwarf can get to
• Make it harder to get up levels

Chemist

• Add a 1 second cooldown on attack potions (damage, poison .ect)
• Reduce the amount of healing potions

And finally, how Brawl should add updates. When the mods want to add a new feature - Scout class, for example - ask the community what they'd like to see in it. Ask the community for their ideas for a free recovery class (which Scout is supposed to be), and base the class on these ideas. If an idea is constantly coming up, for example if many ideas have double jumping in it, try to include it in the class. Pleasing entire communities is very tricky, especially CTF's, and the best way to give them what they want is by knowing exactly what they want.

Bai