savage: battle for newearth at td?

[Daedalus]

we should play savage at td. its awesome, it combines rts and fps. one person is the commander and the others control in 1st and third person view to battle the other team

what makes it so good is that its simple, so ppl who havnt played the game b4 will pick it up in 10min. even teh commander mode is simple, for anyone familiar with aoe2

[Yoda]

Yeah been following savage for a while. Alot of people have said it's alot of fun and an improvement on other attempts at this sort of game...

[Daedalus]

yeah i reckon its success is mostly due to its simplicity and ease of learning. most other types of this game ends up being too complex, so not many ppl would play them.

looking forward to playing this at lans though, it would be awesome

i especially like the money and buying idea, to give ppl inccentive to work as a team.

[Yoda]

most other types of this game ends up being too complex, so not many ppl would play them.

No, that's stupid.

But yeah i've heard alot of good things about it.

[azog]

i believe complexity of a multiplayer game is important :o

theres like a sweet spot for complexity, osp ctf is about it i think ;oo

[RogueAgent]

Sounds good. :o
I was a big fan of Battlezone 2 as were a couple others I know of who I think would be interested in this, but we could never really get enough people interested who were prepared to take on the learning curve.

I agree that there is a sweet spot for complexity....but it differs for each person. One of my favourite games is Tribes 2 - that hits my sweet spot, but far too complex for most and very dependant on team co-ordination.
Many LANers have a sweet spot which sits barely above team deathmatch ;)

Anyway, seek me out next TD and I'll be very keen to check it out. Maybe even an option for playing this game at SlumberLAN night before TD if enough people have it / can get it ?

Keen for that ?

[Daedalus]

yeah im in for slumberlan

but b4 td...woudlnt that make the participants too tired for td?

also, how bout putting savage into teamplay?

[RogueAgent]

SlumberLAN goes :-

Turn up at 4pm Saturday to help setup TD. 6pm LANning starts.
We go through until about midnite or maybe 1am. Sleep over, or go home to sleep. Still plenty of time to get 8 hours sleep and be pumped up for TD at 10am.
If you're keen Private Message me.

Lets try Savage at SlumberLAN first and if it looks like it might have the goods then we'll take it from there....
I cant comment on its possible inclusion in Teamplay since I havent yet seen it.