CTF Update Ideas (A More Minor Focus)

Alright so, tonight I'm only going to respond to the first page or so because it's really late here. I'll do page 2 tomorrow. Keep in mind these are my opinions, not nessesarily the rest of the committees'. Anyway, on with it we go.

Reply to @TobyZiegler I put my thoughts in italics because I'm too lazy to put quotation marks everywhere, and I wanted to reply to everything.

-Teammates should not be able to instantly break medic webs (this creates so many problems with people accidentally doing just that in team-fights).
How would this really fix it, though? Wouldn't it be better if teammates passed through webs entirely (except if you're making a webbed ground for someone to land on) or have another solution? Ithe was really annoying when teammates trolled with that, too.

-Medic webs should work the same as grass (code-able?) for allies (meaning allies can't get webbed by their own medics).

What do you mean by this? Grass?

-Add a feature so that hitting an ally with a snowball will give them Resistance I for the duration that the web is in place.

Interesting idea, not too bad if I say so myself.

-Restore Medic's sword to Sharpness I.

Medic seems to be less of a capping/killing-defense-for-the-incoming-offense sort of class due to the no sharp on it currently, which is a good thing in general; but now it dis to some things way too quickly due to lacking in damage or the ability get out of tight corners, leaving it to be bounced around and making it an easier target that sometimes can't even get to the enemy flagroom to heal it's allies.

-Scale Medic's regeneration to the health of its allies. For instance, if an ally has 5 hearts or less they receive Regeneration V, 10 to 15 hearts Regeneration III, and above that Regeneration
II.
Not bad, might need some tweaking.
-Slow Medic's current regeneration rate.
Maybe it's just me, but isn't it already pretty slow?

-Eliminate knockback from Mage's damage spell.
This will peobablt nerf it too much.
-Reduce Mage heal spell regeneration to Regeneration IV.
Is it V now?
-Increase flame spell duration to 3 seconds.
Flame spell already does 3 hearts and then fire tick damage, does it really need more?

-Increase Ninja sword sharpness to Sharpness V.
Probably a good thing to try since so many people want it.
-Give Ninjas a 20% damage boost when attacking enemies that are either blinded or nauseated.
20% might be a bit much, and if we raised sharpness AND did this, it would make ninja way too strong. Maybe 5-10%, but we'd have to test it.

-Replace wooden fence on Necro spawner with nether brick fence.
But it takes so long to break the nether one </3 although with how necro is right now it probably would be better.

-Temporarily give much greater buffs (strength, speed, resistance, and regeneration) to Necro's zombies (and other minions) until a rework can be completed and implemented.
I think this is a better idea.

-Remove cave spiders as Necro's tier 2 mob and replace them with Skeletons.
^^^
-Allow Necro to see the health bar of its mobs (just as Medic can see the health of its team-mates).
^^^
-Reduce some of the Necro spawner restrictions on certain maps.
Maybe, might be better to trust the other temp fixes first though.

-Fix the Engineer spots as mentioned in @AdamLovesBarca's thread (and some that weren't mentioned, such as the Engineer spots in the flagroom on Beaver Creek).
Gonna do that hopefully this coming week, if I haven't done it within about a week, please go yell at me on discord.

-Heavies should take 50% reduced knockback from Archer arrows.
That could work, yeah.
-Heavies regenerate 1 steak every 5 kills (stacking to no more than the current no. of steaks, 3).
Not sure how useful that would be.

-Significantly buff resistance from Elf water element.
+1
-Add Regeneration III for 2.5 seconds upon being splashed by the water element.
MAlbert regeneration III if the took a burst (like 7 hearts in 1.5 seconds or something similar) of damage within 5 seconds?
-The range of the water element should be greatly increased.
Yeah I agree with that.
-Increase knockback from the wind element.
Making a person go sideways or th he opposite direction ty hat they were running would be nice, but turning it into a mage lighting spell is a big no-no.

These next 2 should be an either/or situation, might be too strong combined.
-Set all Elf armor to protection II.
-Increase the number of Elf steaks from 5 to 6.


-Soldier crits should deal slightly more damage (25-50% more) than regular crits.
Might turn soldier into more of a bruiser than it is now.

-Add some minor resistances to Pyro's armor, such as Protection I (so it does not die as quickly).
Not sure about that one. Might be too annoying for the other classes.

-Chemists should not be able to accidentally poison allies, please fix this.
^^^
-Lower the number of Chemist damage potions to 10.
Eh, 12 seems like a good number.
-Increase the number of poison potions to 10.
How many is it now? 10 seems like a bit much.

-Scale back Archer's headshot range to 32 blocks or more.
I don't think this would be a good solution, the server already has a smaller player render than a lot of servers have.

-Remove Ship Battle map (not a class rework but please, just do it).
I wish the random stuff didn't like if so much or we'd take it out.

I'd rather we try changing punch to power 1 or 2, but I'm an archer main.
I already said yesterday that we aren't planning on nerfing heavy. We just want the crits to be less of a "I'm going to literally 2 shot everything that doesn't have diamond armor" kinda thing.

Do you mean always make it 5 or 6, or do you mean keep the system we have and add more fire ticks to that?

Already addressed in a reply to Munson's post.

I'll have to look more into that assassin idea tomorrow.

No, the defenses are fine. The crits are the problem.

I'll reply to page two tomorrow. It's nearly 3am here, and I fell asleep once already while writing this xD
Hopefully there's not too many typos, I'm way too tired for my own good. Night, CTF <3

 

@Daniellll About your tweak thread, sorry for the delay:

Archer:
Headshot equals 9.5/10 hearts of true damage and a bleeding effect of half a heart per second will be held for 4 seconds.
Punch effect changes upon drawback.
I'm afraid that the headshot change would make the class more ping reliant on the people you're killing. Steaking would be somewhat equivalent to blocking an Assassin, which will already be getting a hopefully less ping reliant rework.
The punch change could work. We'd have to see if that's the better option to changing sword/armor, I personally think it might be.

Medic:
Replace its sword with a sharpness 1 gold sword.
Remove 1 steak.
Change helmet to a yellow leather helmet.
I think that doing all three of these things would make Medic an even easier target than it is now. Perhaps adding sharpness back and removing 1 steak could be combined, but the leather helmet with those two things would probably be too much.

Chemist:
Change fire resistance to be for 70 seconds.
^^^ Already included in original post, although I didn't talk about an exact time.

Dwarf:
Remove potion/fire resistance all together.
Maybe, yeah, but since your post Dwarf has been capped at level 10/11. Do you guys still think that we need this?

Mage:
Add getting knockback and damage for own lightning.
What do you mean by this?

Necro:
Place spawner in ground aka replacing the block in the ground.
Remove fence.
Remove carpet.
Put team respective wool block under spawner.
Replace diamond pickaxe with woodenpickaxe with efficiency 5 and knockback 1.
I'm not sure what the point of having a spawner in the ground would be, can you explain further?

Pyro:
Change fire duration upon drawback.
Make the fire duration longer in general.
Change the 2 click frenzy back to 1 click.
Probably going to change most of the fire duration around, and 1 click frenzy is going to be a thing soon, I hope.

Ninja:
Replace the sword with a sharpness 5 gold sword.
We're likely to try this sometime in the near future because of the amount of requests we're getting for it.

On to the next few posts...

This is what I really meant, I wasn't aware that the crits were the only issue at the time. Heavy is fine except for the crits.

- Elf shield should get fixed, I agree. It's pretty buggy.
- Mage's knockback is really annoying, I'm afraid if we make the knockback on the damage be less it'll be too hard to play properly, but we could potentially try it. Flame spell does knockback and quite a bit of damage AND damage over time, I feel like it shouldn't knock you back at all or it should do less damage. It does like, 2.5 - 3 hearts right now, plus the DOT... ;-; It's too much.

We're working on a new format for map waves, check it out here.
Also our intention is not to nerf Chemist, it's just the crits that are breaking everything right now. I didn't realize this until after I posted.

It seems like a lot of people want Ninja's sword to be buffed. Could very well be worth trying at this point, before the crit nerf perhaps.

I'm hoping this is what we'll try to do in the future.

I'll reply to the next few of you soon (next few hours, perhaps,) sorry for the huge delay in my responses. Been really busy IRL, and had some other things going on too.