The Energon Pub

News Credits: 7 · Tue Sep 01, 2009 6:16 am

(I've been out of touch for 2 weeks, so if something was declared since it, pardon me...)

(Achievement prizes - maybe on the sum of your characters levels or something (the highest int/rank?), small upgrades - buyable alts, fancy weapons, etc...

Non-Person Enemies - Some canon characters
-I see Psychout allready wrote these)

Mission chains - say, if you beat X, Y, and Z missions a special mission or arena fight could be available against a canon enemy for some special prizes (badge, canon weapons, etc...)

Multi-faction missions (like against the quintessons)

Missions not only giving Energon or Experience, or at least not on a standard ratio - some giving more energon, some a little more Xp...

News Credits: 1 · Tue Sep 01, 2009 4:40 pm

An optional "Chain o command" for your team (Purely Cosmetic). Just something that would let you mark a member of the team to show who's leader, second in command etc. I'd settle for just leader tho. Could be something simple like bold text for that chars name or something like a little badge on the chars icon pic. A kinda something that shows you're fighting my boss and you kicked his ass kinda thing.

Wed Sep 02, 2009 1:53 am

having fan made alts put into the alt rotator, which would increase the uniqueness of a team

Thu Sep 03, 2009 11:13 am

1. The stats doing a variety of things so you can make different effective builds and no one can completely ignore any stat.

2. A difference between melee and ranged weapons beyond stats.

3. Some sort of strategic element to the game (war map)

4. Some of the ideas for tactics that have been given before such as: mini-minions (tapes ect), Target/Head masters, pretenders, triple changers, combiners (even if this is only really useful in plot based battles like in a tourney). On a related idea non-alt mode power/tactics maybe make it so you can't have one if you chose one of the above (they are your special power) canon examples: Mirage's invisibility, Bombshell's ceribro sp? shells, Skywarp's teleportation. This also would help anyone wanting to make a team based on Transformers Animated.

5. Special missions that aren't in the normal circuit but are used in tourneys/war events/strong hold attacks/ect that use environmental effects ,NPCs, turrents/drones,endurance fights, maybe combiners.

6. More ability to set non cosmetic stuff for you character like action/attack preferences maybe unlocked with levels of certain stats: int, skill, rank come to mind but I could see courage as a requirement for ignoring incoming fire to do a special heal on a party member.

7. Maybe play with the current base tactics to balance them more, like maybe characters with heal if they are still up after a fight can heal some # of party members still up (stasis lock too difficult for field repair) getting some extra exp and making endurance fights more viable.

8. More of a difference between certain alt modes other than tactics which would involve some environment stuff.

9. The designated leader of your team being more power than the others base.

Sun Sep 06, 2009 6:37 pm

along with automatic log wipes, maybe implement a character wipe for characters that haven't been in a mission or arena for 3 or 4 months, that should also get rid of old crap and also free up more server space

http://www.youtube.com/user/mitchsantona · Mon Sep 07, 2009 9:15 am

vaporretarder wrote:along with automatic log wipes, maybe implement a character wipe for characters that haven't been in a mission or arena for 3 or 4 months, that should also get rid of old crap and also free up more server space

I second that. 3 Months of non activity could put someone in permanent Stasis Lock or something.

News Credits: 7 · Mon Sep 07, 2009 10:51 am

vaporretarder wrote:along with automatic log wipes, maybe implement a character wipe for characters that haven't been in a mission or arena for 3 or 4 months, that should also get rid of old crap and also free up more server space

Errrrr.... NO! Just look at the countless topics with "Where's my team???" and such, even a year after the Great wipe - people can go to a half-year absence, if somebody wipes their team, they can get very angry.

News Credits: 42 · Mon Sep 07, 2009 11:05 am

In the current game, a team not activated in 3 months is removed from the high score charts and their names are released for other players to use. They are not deleted unless there is a game wipe.

We have never removed a team completely as a result of inactivity, the amount of space taken up by dead accounts in the database in minimal so that isnt an issue, so weve not likely to be doing it now.

News Credits: 3646 · Wed Sep 09, 2009 3:49 pm

Psychout wrote:In the current game, a team not activated in 3 months is removed from the high score charts and their names are released for other players to use. They are not deleted unless there is a game wipe.

We have never removed a team completely as a result of inactivity, the amount of space taken up by dead accounts in the database in minimal so that isnt an issue, so weve not likely to be doing it now.

We need to do away with removing old characters from a user's account. All of mine are gone. That's not fair to the casual players.

News Credits: 226 · Wed Sep 09, 2009 4:04 pm

ah, Ryan, all of yours are gone because of the database loss and game reset back in December.

That's the only time characters have been wiped. There's NEVER been any other character removal like that (unless a player was banned)

News Credits: 42 · Wed Sep 09, 2009 5:03 pm

Seibertron wrote:
Psychout wrote:In the current game, a team not activated in 3 months is removed from the high score charts and their names are released for other players to use. They are not deleted unless there is a game wipe.

We have never removed a team completely as a result of inactivity, the amount of space taken up by dead accounts in the database in minimal so that isnt an issue, so weve not likely to be doing it now.

We need to do away with removing old characters from a user's account. All of mine are gone. That's not fair to the casual players.

I couldnt agree more.
We've never deleted inactive players, (apart from unpreventable total game resets) and Im pretty certain moggy wont let it happen now either. The casual cannon-fod... er, players are what makes this game fun.
All that happens now is that they are removed from the high score charts and any character names they have become available for others to use, then the account is set to inactive.

As for your team, as Burn said, the only reason you're team is gone is 'cos of the big server farm disaster of October 2008 where we lost everyone and OS had to rebuild the game.

News Credits: 3 · Thu Sep 10, 2009 3:32 pm

I would love the ability to install armor and upgrade while in the cr chamber. kind of a reformat while doing repairs type dealy

Fri Sep 11, 2009 6:27 am

I had thought that coincides with the need to have at least two tactics an alt. Why not give all the tactics to all the alts. Have the two tactics that are easiest for that alt have the base 1000, while the others get more and more expensive the harder they are. Maybe institute a multiplier to the tactics base cost for every tactic chosen before it. That multiplier would only multiply the base and the tactics would still be independent of each other after you've taken them.

For example before you buy any tactics a Battle Station alt might have Strafe and Repair at 1000, Ram at 3,500, and Avoid at 4,500. Now if the multiplier comes into play, Say said Battle Station picks up Avoid first. Avoid would go on it's normal course for that base price of 4,500, while the others would be multiplied by 2 (or whatever multiplier that gets decided on) like stats are now. So lets say the player decides that he wants Repair, which would have had it's base hit with a multiplier, would now cost 2,000 to grab it. The remaining two tactics would now have base costs of 4,000 and 14000 for strafe and ram respectively.

While the costs would encourage the use of the "normal" tactics for the alt mode, it would still allow for greater build flexibility and personalization.

Note: All numbers were pulled out of the nearest reclaimer unit as examples of how it would work, and do not constitute a fully thought out set of numbers.

News Credits: 42 · Fri Sep 11, 2009 7:04 am

Ahhh, but you're thinking that we'll still only have 4 tactics

Fri Sep 11, 2009 10:31 am

Wait, What? Is this official yet? Are there going to be more than the original 4?

News Credits: 42 · Fri Sep 11, 2009 10:47 am

I couldn't possibly comment..yes :WHISTLE:

News Credits: 1 · Fri Sep 11, 2009 2:39 pm

I thought the additional tactics where confirmed 2 programmers ago?

News Credits: 3 · Fri Sep 11, 2009 2:53 pm

just a thought

how about we name our weapon(s) and theyjust do damage based of stats. like we get to name a primary and secondary, pick melee or ranged and name it "my gun name here", rather than buy a fusion rifle or null ray.

News Credits: 1 · Fri Sep 11, 2009 2:59 pm

Name_Violation wrote:just a thought

how about we name our weapon(s) and theyjust do damage based of stats. like we get to name a primary and secondary, pick melee or ranged and name it "my gun name here", rather than buy a fusion rifle or null ray.

Then we could buy upgrades for the weapons! How awesome would that be!

News Credits: 3 · Fri Sep 11, 2009 3:17 pm

Absolute Zero wrote:
Name_Violation wrote:just a thought

how about we name our weapon(s) and theyjust do damage based of stats. like we get to name a primary and secondary, pick melee or ranged and name it "my gun name here", rather than buy a fusion rifle or null ray.

Then we could buy upgrades for the weapons! How awesome would that be!

exactly

News Credits: 7 · Fri Sep 11, 2009 3:25 pm

Name_Violation wrote:
Absolute Zero wrote:
Name_Violation wrote:just a thought

how about we name our weapon(s) and theyjust do damage based of stats. like we get to name a primary and secondary, pick melee or ranged and name it "my gun name here", rather than buy a fusion rifle or null ray.

Then we could buy upgrades for the weapons! How awesome would that be!

exactly

Or having fixed weapon upgrades? (like in KotOR or Diablo, X different slots in every weapon for upgrades?)

News Credits: 226 · Fri Sep 11, 2009 3:39 pm

ahem, wishlist only, save the discussion if we do decide to discuss anything later.

I will say this though, naming your own weapons has been brought up repeatedly in the past and pretty much decided against as you're bound to get some moron calling their gun "Big Dildo Jizz Bang" or some other stupid or profanity filled name.

And it's bad enough keeping an eye on character names, mottos and bios ...

News Credits: 3 · Fri Sep 11, 2009 4:09 pm

Burn wrote:ahem, wishlist only, save the discussion if we do decide to discuss anything later.

I will say this though, naming your own weapons has been brought up repeatedly in the past and pretty much decided against as you're bound to get some moron calling their gun "Big Dildo Jizz Bang" or some other stupid or profanity filled name.

And it's bad enough keeping an eye on character names, mottos and bios ...

do a better job

i still get a "Pretty gay" with motto of f*** you (uncensored, duh) almost once a day. and like 20 more.

i just don't wanna see 1 weapon that gets used while a bunch others don't get love cuz they aren't as good.

alternitively weapon templates. make all weapons the same, with stats and upgrades the mitigating factor. make a fusion cannon and a sword the same. but firepower and str and thermal upgrade (or some nonsense) make the weapon more powerful. no more every low level char with a null ray

News Credits: 1 · Fri Sep 11, 2009 4:35 pm

Name_Violation wrote:
Burn wrote:ahem, wishlist only, save the discussion if we do decide to discuss anything later.

I will say this though, naming your own weapons has been brought up repeatedly in the past and pretty much decided against as you're bound to get some moron calling their gun "Big Dildo Jizz Bang" or some other stupid or profanity filled name.

And it's bad enough keeping an eye on character names, mottos and bios ...

do a better job

i still get a "Pretty gay" with motto of f*** you (uncensored, duh) almost once a day. and like 20 more.

i just don't wanna see 1 weapon that gets used while a bunch others don't get love cuz they aren't as good.

alternitively weapon templates. make all weapons the same, with stats and upgrades the mitigating factor. make a fusion cannon and a sword the same. but firepower and str and thermal upgrade (or some nonsense) make the weapon more powerful. no more every low level char with a null ray

I was gonna say promote mods who's specific job is to police character names and mottos.

I'd like to see weapons start off as pretty basic, and then we can add on/change parts to the weapon. Some wouldn't really be a big deal, like putting a silencer/flash muffler on the barrel would more or less just be cosmetic, but would be cool for characters who are supposed to be sneaky assassins/infiltrators. Adjusting ammo capacity (not really a big deal in the current game) would be cool too. Changing barrel types for accuracy over damage, changing ammo type for specific damage types. There's a whole lot of stuff you could do just to the guns. Melee weapons you could do the same thing with, different blade types, different materials, different hand guards, different grips.

KoToR is a good starting example, so is Rainbow Six Vegas and Army of Two. If you add 4-5 variables, and a maybe a hundred tops to each variable, you have more possibilities then characters in the game. I'd really really like to see that.