Alternate Scoring. (OR: Make Players Move...)

[SlartyBartFast]

18.02 A game will end by (i) a successful flag hang, (ii) the elimination of all opposing players on the game field, or (iii) 7 minutes after the start of the game.

[Enemy]

if the flag hang is comitted bye a dead carrier then the pull obviously doesnt count and the game ends on elimination points only!! thats why it is better to check before you pull the flag not after or atleast thats what i understood from my last tourney.


also an interesting idea but too complex to understand for anyone that doesnt really know the rules yet scoring is hard enough to comprehend and you want to add to it!!

[SlartyBartFast]

also an interesting idea but too complex to understand for anyone that doesnt really know the rules yet scoring is hard enough to comprehend and you want to add to it!!

I'm not sure anyone understands all the rules or how to apply them.

I would like to have comments on whether the time based scoring would make for a more interesting game or not.

[Lohman446]

I have been trying to convince my team that, win or loose, all games should be over in two minutes.. push hard, you will succeed more often than not. It seems to me, in paintball, there is a natural advantage to being the aggressor and defensive teams seldom do exceptionally well.

[SlartyBartFast]

I have been trying to convince my team that, win or loose, all games should be over in two minutes.. push hard, you will succeed more often than not. It seems to me, in paintball, there is a natural advantage to being the aggressor and defensive teams seldom do exceptionally well.

But, do you think a scoring system like the one I proposed would increase the aggresiveness of the games and have a positive effect?

Would it encourage more movement past initial positions? Or would strategy remain static.

[TheTramp]

I REALLY like the idea of the game ending when either the flag is hung or one side is completely eliminated.

That would mix things up I'm sure.

[OmniM]

We use a time scoring system here in Sweden in the Northen European Series.

The faster you end the game, more points you get. But we dont use flags, we use a stop button in the "flag"-zone instead.

Scoring as follows:
Time Stoppage: 50 pts
Within 2 min: 20 pts
Within 3 min: 15 pts
Within 4 min: 10 pts

... sth like that you mean?

[trains are bad]

Games would improve if field got rid of the freaking back bunkers!

Most fields have at least two nice tall wide standups on the back and nothing but little cans and doritos up front. Wonder why teams play it safe?

I swear they structure it that way so they sell lots of paint.

There is no variety in painball fields.

I like to see crazy setups. As long as the field is symetrical it's still fair.


AND another thing that pisses me off is when fields are structured such that you are very unlikely to pull the flag without eliminating the whole other team. If that's the case, why have the flag? Why not just give the flag hang points to the winning team?

[trains are bad]

Here's a field for ya. rough but you get the idea. The circles are 7' cans and the squares are little blocks, triagles doritos.

You want movement? Ha. This field makes laning down the center OTB about useless, with no advantage to staying in the back. Angles change fast and communication very important as you can't see across the whole friggen field. Plus it is concevable that a team could run the flag with the other team still in. But alas paintball is devoid of feilds with the capital and balls to take any risks or innovation whatsoever.

It's like there's this unofficial 'format' for a paintball field that fields are afraid to deviat from.

[SlartyBartFast]

I REALLY like the idea of the game ending when either the flag is hung or one side is completely eliminated.

That would mix things up I'm sure.

And it would be easy to add without any technology required.

[SlartyBartFast]

We use a time scoring system here in Sweden in the Northen European Series.

The faster you end the game, more points you get. But we dont use flags, we use a stop button in the "flag"-zone instead.

Scoring as follows:
Time Stoppage: 50 pts
Within 2 min: 20 pts
Within 3 min: 15 pts
Within 4 min: 10 pts

... sth like that you mean?

Now THAT sounds really cool.

Are the rules for that series available on the web? (and in English? )

But that approach does eliminate a "middle" target and points related to the flag pull.

[NukeGoose]

Ending the game when all the players from one side are eliminated (before the flag hang) would be completely ludicrous. The last player could just stand out in the open and mow down anyone who tried to hang the flag without worry of getting shot... not my idea of a good game. Remember that the last player for a team has a gun too. You'd have to freight train 2 or 3 players to the flag station and hope that the flag carrier can make it unmauled, while his buddies take a pelting.

I do agree with the increasing points for quick flag hangs though. That'd make it more interesting.

[SlartyBartFast]

Ending the game when all the players from one side are eliminated (before the flag hang) would be completely ludicrous.

Hilarious, perhaps. Ludicrous, well that's a matter of opinion.

Perhaps bonus points for total eliminations based on time as well to balance the equation.

[jamescell]

Awsome idea, I LOVE it!

[SlartyBartFast]

Complicating scoring further:

Eliminations are worth more the quicker in the game they're made.