Hello Devs,
I was just talking with a pair of Omni and Clan leaders after a fun Tara...
Why don't we bring about some changes in AO pvp mechanics especially towers? After the usual banter, you got rolled, you multibox.. blah blah, we soon realized we play this game for fun and AO would be more fun with some simple fixes.
#1 tower planting mechanics
First 10 minutes only org that won DD on CT can plant
Second 20 minutes only side that won can plant
After 20 minutes FFA anyone can plant
//This is to fix all the shameless ninjaplanting
#2 tower timers
Towers should be 17 hours 75% 2 hours 25% 1 hour 5%. War hotting 1 hour as is.
//This will enable lower motivation for time shifting towersites and promote pvp at all timezones... not just "prechoosen" timezone. Every day towers will be open 4 hours earlier, so every week everyone from any timezone will have a chance at towers.
#3 fixer hots/gsf nanos level lock on target
Same level locks as team runspeed buffs on GSF nanos .. 185 for GSF
Same level locks for targets as is for fixer for example lvl 195 for Dr Hack 'n Quack
//This will transform lowbie pvp and will make many professions more viable. It also makes low levels more fun and team oriented.
#4 keybinds
1 Key 1 action rule.
//Right now no major game allows such massive key binds as AO. As it is players can now bind correct sequence of perks to one button and win most fights via pressing 1 button(Agents here). This would help make pvp more dynamic and multiboxing less of a problem since more buttons would have to be pressed for optimum gameplay.
We also agreed game is full of 0pportunity for small gameplay changes similar to these, that would make sense and everyone can easily agree on. We could not agree on multiboxing, or who rolled other side more at pvp... but these we could agree on. Remember these were agreed upon by few people at Tara, ingame today, from both sides, veterans with grasp on endgame and gameplay of all levels. People who PAY and PLAY the game rightnow, are not on canceled subs or do forum pevpev.
I feel strongly these 4 would change gameplay for the better in many ways and require almost 0 resources to fix and implement. 1 Day to fix our game, please do it!