GOP - Revamp this minigame.

[sees_all1]

The Great Orb Project is my favorite minigame, but as much as I love it, its flawed.

I don't need to list all the errors in game logic, ideally these would be fixed with the revamp.

Here's a list of my suggestions to make this minigame better:

 

 

-Tutorial:

Almost every minigame has an associated tutorial or manual in game. GOP does not, and it is very very vague. There shouldn't be players saying "wut do i do" when they first play, they should know how to play.

 

-Sand box mode:

Allows a player to practice or experiment with different spawns, strategies, etc. Different from a tutorial in that its interactive. Each player gets a different color hat and orbs to spawn (wherever they designate). Orbs are only responsive to their owners, unless the owner elects to "enable defense" and allow others to practice defense on them. The sand box mode gives no experience.

 

-Personal rating:

Keeps track of Wins, Losses, Ties. This information is NOT publicly or privately available, and is only used in game mechanics (see next idea).

 

-Orb Priority:

Orbs of your team respond more to players with a higher personal rating. This prevents inexperienced players from sinking teams, and makes it difficult to be a career saboteur.

 

-Orb Inactivity:

If an orb does not move from its spot for 5 seconds and is in a "nerfed" area, it will respawn. If an orb is being "hugged" for more than 4 seconds (not moving even though someone is attracting or repelling it), it will be relinquished.

This makes defense still viable, but not to the point of cheating. It also prevents saboteurs from nerfing orbs, and laggy high ranked players from sinking teams.

 

-Clan or Solo games:

Pretty much self explanatory. These games will not give tokens if they are not competitive - i.e. someone wins every round by more than double the opponent's score. This stops 50-50s and multi-loggers from gaining an advantage.

 

-Queue to Join:

Allows players to get in line when they arrive in the guild. Also allows friends to get in the same game before the countdown starts. Only available through blue wizards.

 

-Faster countdown when teams are full:

Pretty self explanatory, prevents the guild from getting filled up.

 

-Watch a game:

Feature from clan wars that would make GOP more interesting. This is available to non-guild members to get them excited for 50 runecrafting, with an orb of viewing outside the portal of the RC guild.

 

-Auto craft:

Optional toggle that gives experience and runes at the end of each round automatically, without being right next to the altar. Also stops ess from falling to the ground when your inventory is full, can allow for quicker transitioning from one round to the next.

 

-Essence for Orbs:

Makes it worthwhile to compete in a lost-cause game. 1.25 orbs = 1 essence, rounding up. Makes it pointless to play defense in blowouts, also will stop the saboteur from trying to get a "quick" 60 tokens from getting their teammates to quit.

 

-Varying number of orbs:

Number of orbs on the field is equal to the number of people you're playing against, times a coefficient for altar size (Also clipped to a min and a max).

I.E. 6v6 spawns 6 orbs of each color at the water altar. 6v6 spawns 4 orbs of each color at the air altar. 6v6 spawns 8 orbs of each color at the earth altar.

6v2 spawns 3 orbs for the team with 6, and max orbs for the team of 2.

This makes it more competitive no matter how many people are playing.

 

-More tokens when the other team quits:

When everyone on the other team quits, the round is finished out. Also, the next round will result in a win, and the remaining rounds will result in a tie (token-wise, records will be unaffected for un-played games)

 

 

 

That's all I have for now, feedback appreciated.

[Dax]

I think we need a sticky here in this forum. 'Great Orb Project Problems'

[Youmu]

Ok, so far there are the following glitches (not fixed):

 

- invisible barrier glitch (this is by far the MOST annoying)

- mind altar 6 orb glitch

- score glitch

- barrier "pass through obstacles" glitch

- barrier "remove objects" glitch

- barrier "make you disappear" glitch

- barrier "make essence spawn on top of you" glitch

- token glitch

- 1 person only glitch

- timer glitch

- activity bar glitch

- penalty glitch

- wand glitch

- teleport glitch

 

And I'm sure there are far more glitches than these ones.

[sees_all1]

add another - Earth altar 6 orb glitch.

 

[Youmu]

You know, I actually think GOP should consist of 6 orbs per round.

 

Think about it. There can be a max of 6 players playing on a team. Having 6 orbs would reduce the amount of hugging, and will actually favor offensive play much greatly than defensive play. After all, the perfect offense is the perfect defense, right? ;)

 

Though, with this, the time per round should go down. Let's say, 1 min 30 sec, or even 1 min. That way, matches finish faster, and you will be able to get more tokens per hour. And more tokens = more $$$.

 

If Jagex did this, I'll definitely be playing GOP more.

[Youmu]

Oops double post.

[sees_all1]

You know, I actually think GOP should consist of 6 orbs per round.

 

Think about it. There can be a max of 6 players playing on a team. Having 6 orbs would reduce the amount of hugging, and will actually favor offensive play much greatly than defensive play. After all, the perfect offense is the perfect defense, right? ;)

 

Though, with this, the time per round should go down. Let's say, 1 min 30 sec, or even 1 min. That way, matches finish faster, and you will be able to get more tokens per hour. And more tokens = more $$$.

 

If Jagex did this, I'll definitely be playing GOP more.

 

I think I'm going to compile a list of suggestions for GOP, and then post them in this forum, and on the RSOF.

Anyhow, its ridiculous how buggy this content STILL is, even after being more than a year old.

[sees_all1]

I think Jagex is updating GOP right now -

the last few games I've played, any extra ess that was not picked up spawns at the portal. Maybe they're fixing it!?!!?

[Youmu]

How about penalties? What should you do about them?

 

I'm sure if they remove of the 10-min penalty, a lot more people - including me, myself - will play GOP a lot more often.

 

Also, make it so that you can only get 1 orb at a time (no double-orbing). That way, it's safe to have all games 6 orbs per team, without soloers gaining an advantage.

 

Speaking of which, there should be an option for 1v1 GOP.

[Youmu]

There's a deposit box in GOP now.

 

Yes, finally they are starting to notice the minigame's many problems.

[Ren]

I've never tried to play GOP myself, so I can't say much. I've heard it needs some revamping already, though, and I know for sure that NOTHING on RuneScape should have a 50/50 sort of situation, so that needs to be fixed. Some of your post (what I could understand) sounds ok and would probably definitely make the game better. Now to get JaFeX to read it...Lol.

[D. V. Devnull]

I'll support as well! Too dang many bugs needing fixing! :blink:

 

BTW, the activity bar should be considered a bug as well! It only precipitates problems! :angry:

 

~Mr. D. V. "We need a non-[bleep]-ed game already!" Devnull

 

 

(p.s.: I can't believe I saw your RSOF version and missed this! BTW, could you maintain a TIF-based support list containing those of us that use these forums and have posted support here?)