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What is the ideal team size? Is there a minimum that is considered playable? A maximum?

My own opinion is that "normal" gameplay should not incorporate mechanisms for forcing a match to end, but that there should be a form of sudden death with the express purpose of bringing a quick conclusion to a match that can already be considered a stalemate. Meaning: sudden death is str...

Viech wrote:
Sudden death shouldn't be the normal way a match ends, so I think with SD at the usual 30 minutes, 20-25 minutes should be a good average duration.

Don't presuppose the existence of sudden death. That should be a separate question.

Corollary to "How long should matches last?":

How, if at all, should matches forcibly end?

This is a corollary to How long should matches last? : if matches should not last indefinitely, how should they forcibly end? Is an abrupt timelimit okay? Should there be "sudden death" of some kind, and if so, how should it function? Or should the game naturally force an ending over time ...

I think it's important that Unvanquished have a clearly defined and (most importantly) agreed-upon outline of what kind of game it is intended to be. This would help to focus development and avoid personality blowouts that come from people laboring under divergent beliefs about what, exactly, they'r...

EDIT: Note this post was made in 2012. Skip below for the github repository, which I finally got around to uploading. About two and half years ago I started coding a mod of Tremulous. It began as more or less a clone of Gloom, but I soon realized there was just as much about Tremulous I wanted to ke...

I think one of Tremulous's biggest missed opportunities was how thoroughly the helmet destroys the applicability of stealth for aliens. It's especially unfortunate because the helmet would be highly valuable for it's defensive buff alone, so players miss out on what would be an interesting decision ...

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A "Vision Statement" for Unvanquished

Design for an unfinished Tremulous mod

Helmet & Radar