Talk:Suggestions/25th-Oct-2006
Anti-Drone Measure
| Timestamp: | Reaper with no name 18:22, 25 October 2006 (BST) |
| Type: | Improvement, I guess... |
| Scope: | Drones, bots, whatever you want to call them |
| Description: | Drones. I hate them, you hate them, just about everyone who doesn't use them hates them. Well, let's do something about it, shall we?
In general, the problem with drones is that they barricade faster than humans can. This makes it even more difficult for zombies to break through them. Obvious stuff, right? Now, most drones work by continually refreshing the page and searching the text looking for whether or not the building's barricades are extremely heavy. If they aren't, it barricades. Drones can do this at a ridiculously high rate. So, what's the actual suggestion here? Well, I propose that any time a character refreshes a page or barricades more than once per second, they get a flag on them indicating that they are potentially a drone. This will allow potential drones to be easily found and then dealt with (assuming Kevan were to implement this, of course, since we still aren't sure of his opinions towards drones as far as I know). I know what you're thinking. "Well, what if people just program their drones not to refresh the page or barricade as quickly?". Well, yes, it would be simple for people to do that, but the whole reason drones are effective is because they can barricade so much faster than survivors. If their speed at building barricades is dropped to near the level of humans, then the whole measure has still served it's purpose. |
Discussion
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it"? Funt, I know you're smarter than that. If that is a valid reason for a spam vote, then we might as well get rid of the suggestions page altogether, because every suggestion should be auto-spammed since that same logic can apply to any and all suggestions. The fact that nothing is broken currently is not a good reason to say that nothing should change. Otherwise, there is no point to the suggestions page. --Reaper with no name 18:22, 25 October 2006 (BST)
- Something tells me this is going to go around in circles forever and ever unless someone gives in. So, okay, you're right and I'm wrong. My Spam vote is purely due to my insanity. Thankfully, all the Keep votes from other, sane contributers, will render my single, insane Spam vote irrelevant, and this suggestion will get implemented before the two-week voting process is over because Kevan will recognise it for the genius it is. --Funt Solo 19:41, 25 October 2006 (BST)
I've never claimed that all (or even most) of my suggestions are good. You even pointed out that my suggestion fails to account for attack drones. I'm merely pointing out that spamming this on the basis that it may not be completely necessary to the game isn't very good reasoning. If you're gonna vote spam, you should have a good reason. --Reaper with no name 20:38, 25 October 2006 (BST)
