Doesn't matter. People love to vote on polls. Even if we had 2x as many competetive players vote on this as public players, you'd still get compromised results.

Which are better than no results at all. Let the people speak, eh?

Why?

Different version of NS.

And this affects your vote in this poll how?

@tjosan... depot has a point, but look at this thread and speak your mind.

@depot... lets not distract from the point of this thread, and thus leaving questions like this to a PM if it truly concerns you.

On Topic:
I voted for 15 minutes, but only if tournament mode for CO turned off the "alien win if hive lives".

If we're spectating a cheater we wouldn't need 15 minutes, as 10 would suffice.

Thanks for your vote though!

Do I have to quote your post to link my comment to it?

Meh...

Meaning you favor a 10, 12, or 15 minute timelimit?

If you didn't vote then this isn't the thread to debate Combat, as Digz already noted. If you did vote, which timelimt do you prefer, and why?

Which aren't supposed to vote. This vote is aimed at the competative scene, not all combatplayers around.

Which aren't supposed to vote? So 63 players registered on these forums are all that's interested in competitive combat? I think not .... ... .. . Just, vote, now.

When you are a moderator of this forum you will be welcome to decide who can and cannot post here.

Chances are half these votes are from people who have nothing to do with competitive play.

Most probably less than 30 people would be willing to play combat competitively.

edit: these people are probably new to the NS competitive scene in the last few builds and haven't played in any combat games competitively

Just sayin'

That number's terribly conservative, even with combat as it currently exists.

When our plugin is released and the tournament begins, these numbers will surely increase.

Hope that clarifies things.

You know, originally, I was going to ask you how the kharaa were going to go about stopping jp's when it came to me that I'm really out of the loop this morning. Competitive fades and skulks can handle jetpacks given the right upgrades, and to get hive-three weapons so early in the game, when they're mainly used currently to just make the impending alien victory a little easier, is wholly unbalancing. Xeno doesn't belong with a1, w1, shotgun-wielding marines. Nor does web. The kharaa can deal with jp's and anything else the marines can throw at them if they keep up the pressure and continue to gain experience, they don't need a xeno crutch.

Regarding Onii, I'm all for canning them. You rarely see more than one in a competitive match, and that's after the fades, lerks, gorges, and skulks have finished the game already.

Of course, there's probably a flaw in my comparing combat to classic directly. Combat does have some vastly different aspects, what with the most concern for losing a higher lifeform being that it'll take a few seconds to re-fade. Will it be a different entity from classic or find some way to be unique? And if the plugin alters it to be one upgrade per chamber, it'll just be little more than a watered down version of NS, do you suppose that would affect interest?

I've been in touch with I&S and some of the devs and we felt charging 2 points would suffice for 2nd and 3rd hive abilities. As to eliminating onos, the plugin will limit higher lifeforms to 2 of a possible 3 in any given match, 4v4. This, coupled with 1 upgrade per chamber, should significantly balance combat for competitive use.

Thanks for your vote, and keep them coming in!

...are you nuts? You could make third hive abilities and onos cost a full 5 points each and it would still be way alien sided, especially for 4v4.

I suppose.