Crazy Idea...3-team CTF

I was just imagining this, and I could actually see it being somewhat fun. Essentially, have a map with three bases and three flags. You get a point for capping an enemy flag no matter who it is.

You could have variations of say after two flags capped against you your team is eliminated, or it's simply up to a certain score.

Bottom line though, I think what would be interesting is how alliances would be formed. If someone is winning, the other two teams would probably concentrate on that one team. You could also just cherry pick cappers.

I'm sure this has been thought of before, so has anyone every heard/played something like this? When I think about it, I don't think I've ever played a FPS with multiple teams. Anyhow just a crazy idea I had.

didn't tribes have a multiple team game type nobody played?

Bottom line though, I think what would be interesting is how alliances would be formed.

This is the reason I believe that this was never implemented. One team will inevitably be picked on more than the other two. It's not only not very fair, it unbalanced the game. I think that the better team should always win.

didn't tribes have a multiple team game type nobody played?
yes it did.

I don't even remember that...thats how bad this idea must be...

it was pretty fun

i was going to do something like that before, but like instead of capping out there would be a score thing like the three teams each have 5 caps or something so if you get 5 caps upon one of the teams that team can't win, but they can still help decide who would win the match as a whole by annoying the hell outta the other one or two teams :P

One word: gangbang.

So no.

I played 3 teams a couple of times. The one time I can remember it was just an objective type map, no flags. But it wasn't C&H, just an objective. My team started started off in the grass somewhere west of it. I was like, "Do we have a base or is this a nightmarish mix of Scarabrae and DoD?"

After checking C and looking around a bit, we were the only team that did *not* have a base. So the other two teams were heading to the objective with heavies and mines and other weapons, and all we had was spawn. Basically our team was getting owned for not having anything. However, in the last couple seconds of the match, I somehow managed to clear the heavies from the defending team and tapped that bitch for the win. I was so damn excited because we were owned the whole map but still won. ;)

a 3-team CnH would rock.

we used to have a three team CTF map (basically Broadside with three floating buildings) in Tribes1 in DMM. fun...but not worth a mod.

eventually, one team always sided with another to beat the third.

didn't tribes have a multiple team game type nobody played?
A few months back someone initiated a vote to change to it (on hell??) and it passed. It was crazy and extremely fun on one of the maps. The server emptied on the second map because it sucked.

One word: gangbang.

So no.

Hmm... true gangbang is a killer here. It ain't fun to face double firepower...

SOOOOOO ----> Add a "feature" where if you cap one flag, you can't cap the other until you have capped another teams flag, and so on...

can't rape the same teams gens twice. (after they're repaired, they stay up, unless the "other" team comes in and kills 'em, etc.

Multiple team games would be viable this way, and I think it could make Seige interesting too.

Hmm... true gangbang is a killer here. It ain't fun to face double firepower...

SOOOOOO ----> Add a "feature" where if you cap one flag, you can't cap the other until you have capped another teams flag, and so on...

can't rape the same teams gens twice. (after they're repaired, they stay up, unless the "other" team comes in and kills 'em, etc.

Multiple team games would be viable this way, and I think it could make Seige interesting too.

Multiple teams never work. Always some teams will form some kinda of stupid "truce" and rape the living crap out of the other ones.

I'd prefer to see some new gametypes or revamping of some discarded ones like FnR. It's been proven time and time again that the current list of types we have now are just plain not played except CTF. Sure there are some "small" communities of Arena and Siege, but they really aren't viable.

Multiple teams never work. Always some teams will form some kinda of stupid "truce" and rape the living crap out of the other ones.

I'd prefer to see some new gametypes or revamping of some discarded ones like FnR. It's been proven time and time again that the current list of types we have now are just plain not played except CTF. Sure there are some "small" communities of Arena and Siege, but they really aren't viable.

How about BASE CAPTURE? both sides start with an equal number of bases / assets and must defend their own bases / assets while attempting to capture and hold the enemies --- first team to hold all assets at the same time wins...

............ Siege.

Not quite.

this may sound even worse then 3 teams, but how about more then that? instead of say 2 teams of 16 people each(32 person server) you have like 4 teams of 8 people? or 6 teams of 5 people. i understand that all the other teams could gang up on one, that's why i like that- you can only cap one flag from each team once" thing.


whatever i think it would be fun in theory having 6 teams all going at it.

this may sound even worse then 3 teams, but how about more then that? instead of say 2 teams of 16 people each(32 person server) you have like 4 teams of 8 people? or 6 teams of 5 people. i understand that all the other teams could gang up on one, that's why i like that- you can only cap one flag from each team once" thing.


whatever i think it would be fun in theory having 6 teams all going at it.
Yep, that was actually more along the lines of what I was thinking.

Eventually we'll have games where there are multiple teams, with multiple objectives that all mesh together.