Anniversary Bash VIII
 

It's about the time in a year when we need to prepare for the upcoming Anniversary Bash event. And so, anyone's got suggestions or volunteers?

i'll volunteer for stuff, iam not quite sure what to volunteer for though.
Also for a bash CTF iam suggesting Electrc Danger By Yaxo

Mainly assembling the packs and hosting the server I... think.

i could host the server lol israelish host unfair ;(

IsraelISH!? :eek:
Silly R3p...

Levels that we certainly should have are already mostly included inthe CTF and battle/TB levels in the JJ2WC3 map pool and then there's Yasco's Electric Danger.

Sure ill volunteer to assemble that packs then :D

If you make an AB pack put in my Summer Dreams level. If you want me to i'll make corrections and stuff.

We should have a treasure server for the Bash.
Maybe that way the gamemode will gain some popularity.

;D good idea n00b

I'll volunteer to help out with the packs. Help out only though, not be the actual person assembling them as I have barely been active lately and don't have time.

Oh yeah, and I support the idea of having more than a battle and ctf gametype during the bash (last time we had a semi-official Ground Force bash server which attracted quite a bit of attention if I recall correctly. FQuist or someone hosted it), although preferably not at the same time (I liked last year's structure where one gametype was hosted for a bit, then another) as that wouldn't work well (from what i've seen before, having two dedicated bash servers at once either 1) Splits up people and makes there be less people in a server which equals less fun and more of a feeling of emptyness or 2) having everyone flock to one server and have the other be empty/near empty).

For anyone participating in the assembly of the packs my email adress is bloobird_0123456789@hotmail.com

I was acting like Thunder, Stiletto and Elmer from the times that I used to host the JDC european events (..I hate to state the obvious)..

:p

I'll volunteer to help with the packs, too.

I think that having groups of people (the community) somehow decide what levels are in the packs would be a good idea.

I don't know why this hasn't been attempted yet.

Make a poll with all alternatives there is, then you get to mark like 15 lvls for each game mode, or something.

Hmm.. I've missed alot in JJ2 last weeks, but I know some levels that could get in the pack(not calling my levels, although I would like a level in of course) but I think some old levels and some new levels is good. Not that levels that you see in every Bash though..
Well, there weren't alot of good MP levels last year.. so there have to be old levels too.

So when was the exact begin-date of bash? ...or just jazz2's "birthday"?

I volunteer to help with the packs as well
As FQuist said in MIRC on the subject of the lack of help from the general public:
"it's like when someone is getting beaten up and everyone waits for someone else to get involved and stop the fight"

What about having two people create a pack suggestion and then posting the pack early on to the public so that others can give feedback? It's inbetween having the pack created totally by voting and doing it without any outside help. People could veto levels, or something.

Useful list of volunteers so far (alphabetical order):
Blackraptor
Birdie
Cooba
N00b

The volunteers for the pack are usually selected by the J2O admins, but really it's just the community's choice - we're not the official bash organisers, we just do it since no-one else does. So... what about some more talk here, since the community is you..

Sounds like a good idea.

I prefer the ice temple ruins.

Summer Dreams is more suited to a large crowd, since it's a huge map. But yeah, I like the temple ruins better myself.

You better not put all those crappy "classics" this time.

Edit: By the way, I'm going to put my list and save the day also this year. :p

:D

:D i hate the "classics" too.

You better not include bad levels in the pack just because they are new.

^^^ Yeah.

*cough* DS' levels *cough*

Too bad your list had no impact on FS/Cell's one. Quaint attempt though ;)

*goes off to make a list suggestion*

Have you already forgot the WINNER's alternative bash server? :p

...the community is currently suffering from a lack of good, moderately underhosted battle levels.

(the level order might or might not change)

1. Virtues ~ Wraith
2. The Lost Battle Game ~ IC
3. Dusky Siegeness ~ P4ul
4. Beneath the XLM Castle ~ Dx
5. Forest War ~ Danyjel
6. Golradir ~ Cmdr Dats
7. Buccaneer Bay ~ Lark
8. The Relics of Minoria's Temple ~ Nick PoL
9. Battle in Treasure C ~ Elliot
10. Forgotten Castle ~ Snooze
11. Galactic Feedback ~ BlurredD
12. Jagged Ectoplasm ~ Lark
13. Gold Rush Mountains ~ White Rabbit
14. Tall Towers ~ EvilMonkey/Akukitsune
15. The Underground ~ FireSworD
16. Shock Station ~ Blackraptor
17. Spider Swamp ~ defalcon
18. Sacred Realms ~ White Rabbit
19. The lava cave ~ Satan/Sacrush
20. Non-Typical Battle ~ FireSworD

Feedback plz :(

What's wrong with non underhosted levels? It's not that people host custom battle levels too often, anyway...

...and:

Forgotten Castle = no, too small
Tall Towers = no, there are tons of better wsf levels
The lava cave = no, not good enough imo

i could live with everything else

Nice list, but Buccaneer Bay was hosted for like a month on the battle server.
Also virtues isn't my favorate but the rest is good.

I need to make some more good battle levels.

Or something.

I think Cooba was gearing more towards stuff unhosted in your regular old-shmoe server, not something like the battle server that is hosted 24/7 for the most part and has a selection of decent battle levels to play.

I don't even think I ever finished a real game in Galactic Feedback. I should probably go make a better level.

I'm fine with just about any list as long as the levels are decent (I would say at the very least a 7.2 if uploaded on J2O), no more than 20 levels are used unless it's really necessary (even with 20, many people won't be able to play in all the levels when they are hosted), and no levels are included from the previous AB pack (this is so levels can't be included pack after pack instead of other decent levels. If people want to play a level from the last AB, they can just play it from that pack, which will probably be hosted anyway). I think everyone else can work out all the other issues.

On a side note, Buccaneer Bay was never hosted regularly on Battle Server. You're probably thinking of The Corsair's Coast, Birdie.

And what if there are just not enough good levels that were not included in the last pack?

your probably right. Could you replace Virtues with Ice Temple Ruins by Odin? I think its probably best not to have so many levels in castle sets.
I'll try to start a CTF list

I personally like Virtues and think it should stay.

"So many"? The only Castle level other than Virtues is Forgotten Castle, which uses the Eclipse tileset modification anyway. And besides, I considered adding Ice Temple Ruins, but I think I lost it somewhere when I made a big rehash on the early version of the list. Sorry Odin ;D

There would still be the levels from the second-to-last AB pack and earlier. Plus people can always make new levels at the last minute.

:\ i don't think there should be any of the levels from the old Ab's