Please take your time to read, this is just an idea, I’m not going to bother replying to people coming to attack this post on the fact they think its ‘Complaining’ or ‘Whinging’ over a social game type and think that everyone should get over it. This game always has room for improvement, so just hear me out.
So, there is big debate on the whole Warzone farming problem. If you don’t already know about it nor have experienced it, it’s practically one side caps all bases, then refuses to destroy the core, and just farm’s the enemy team until 1000 points.
Some are saying that it is part of the game, cannot be removed, and to just get over it.
Some wan’t a mercy rule where they are able to quit and not be stuck in a spawn trap.
BUT, I did have an alternate idea that does work for both sides, to both prevent or at least reduce quitting or the urge to quit, and farming/spawn trapping. what if;
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A**fter all 3 bases are capped, after 10 minutes of these bases being captured, the enemies core automatically self destructs. Causing the game to end at that. And if a base is recaptured before the 10 minutes runs out, the timer resets and the game continues.
Note: If you are standing on a base while the 10 minutes has run out, the timer will stay dormant until the enemy either pushes all Spartans off that base, or they capture it. There are a lot of pro’s and con’s to this but in some sense this does balance out the game to an extent, actually push for teams to run for objectives instead of just dying and prevent a team (Not completely) but some what prevent a team from just farming the enemy team for 30+ minutes straight.
Pros
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Prevents Farming the enemy team (I use the term farming, because yes, there will still be a spawn trap, but it wont be for the whole game at least.) - Pushes for team to actually attempt to go for objectives instead of just repeating the cycle of killing someone, dying, repeat. - Takes away the ‘Mercy’ rule or even the thought of someone quitting since there is now a time that it will end instead of it dragging on for the rest of the game. - Typically, it does take at least 5 or so minutes to cap all 3 bases if you push back the enemy team from the first base (someone will probably challenge my word and say that there team has done it faster, but this is just imo/estimate) so a game would go no more then 15 minutes, which everyone still gets there REQ bonus, and doesn’t waste there time stuck between not wanting to quit and not wanting to die every 10 seconds. - Gives variety to the game mode, and a goal in mind where as your team does not want too loose your last base and will actually understand that bases are important, making the whole assaulting the base/Defending the base a big priority of the game. You could choose to go attack the AI for extra points, or push for the enemies bases while they are distracted starting the self destruct timer.Cons
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People will always find a way to exploit this, where as most likely teams will just allow the enemy to capture a base so they can just push them back and repeat the cycle. BUT in doing so it does actually potentially give the enemy/friendly team a chance to make a come back, since anything can happen once a bit of pressure is taken off. - It is a social playlist. So having a lot more pressure being put into the game where you feel as if you ‘Have to take this objective or loose’ does take the whole stance of ‘Social’ away where you want to play to relax. But then again, it is some what better then sitting getting farmed for a good 30 minutes and does take away the stress of ‘If i quit, I get banned’ - Games will run shorter, and for some people this isn’t a good thing, for some it is. It does prevent you from saving up REQ’s to use in late game, but taking into consideration you are already pushed into the back of your base, stuck on lets say 5 REQ’s, being trapped, there really is no point for ‘late game’, your ‘Late game’ is another 20 deaths by 30 minutes.There are probably a ton more of Pros and Cons to the list, and if you have any, please, be my guest and add a few of what will or won’t work. Even your thoughts on the pro’s and con’s themselves.
Any questions, Thoughts or even Idea’s to run of this please comment down below.
I will make a side not, to please, as I already stated, don’t bash on this post. This is just an idea, but if you have nothing positive to contribute apart from ‘Get over it or get better’ then just don’t bother. I get it, you’re a Halo Warzone Hardened Veteran that any complaint to your beloved warzone triggers you and instantly causes you to attack the post by talking about how everyone is lesser then you and should get better. Understandable, your doing this community a great deed, good work sir. But just try refrain yourself from commenting something tedious this one time.