[Idea] Minigame Idea: Hydra Dogfights!

[Fry]

Now, I'm sure most of us remember the 'Vertical Bird' Single-player mission. If not; let me recap. You basically steal a Hydra and dogfight with 3 other NPC hydras while destroying spy ships. So, I was standing there, and I thought; hey, that would be kickass as an LVP minigame!
So, here's my idea of it:
In the ideal dogfight, the players would be spread around the map on a different world; so the minimap would only show where the opposition was. Since the Hydras are jump-jets, the players would spawn at different helipads or large, flat areas around the map.
Each player has 10 seconds to get into their Hydra, and the action starts there. If a Hydra hits the land and explodes, it is disqualified. If a Hydra sinks in the water, the player is disqualified. If a Hydra is blown up by another Hydra, they're disqualified. The winner is whoever can last the longest during intense air combat. Note that the minigame start screen should include a
[move]"Press Numpad 2 or 8 to toggle hover or jet engines"[/move]
in case some idiot is wondering why he's going up and not forward.
I've tested it before, and yes, the Hydras CAN lock on to heat sources on the server; aka vehicles that are being piloted. I have yet to find out if the flares will be a lock-on target, too. Also, as long as every player has a reasonable ping; the air lag won't be any more than normal derbies/deathmatches/races. This would probably require a lot of coding, but it would definitely be worth it. I'd love to see this in the future, and it would be great fun for when the server's at full load. Now, is there anything I may have missed or was wrong about?

[Deaken]

Point 1: nice Topicstart, my compliments.

Point 2: I like the idea, I hope more will

Point 3: As I am member of the management approved

point 4: I always have lag flying these machines, I shoot several heat seaking rockets to other hydras (adminfight ) I see the rockets hitting him but nothing happens, then he turns around, I hear a beeeep-sound and see a rocket incomming. BOOM /me dead
Maybe this is fixable by putting it in another world (It sertainly has to be in another world I quess )

Point 5: HF discussing

Deaken

[Fry]

Thank you. As you said, putting it in another world would probably reduce the lag. It would also improve the reality of the radar. I have tested, and no, the flares do not show up as targets. However, they aren't important anyway.

[Dennis]

I like the idea. Had it myself some time ago, but never mentioned it. 

The problem with this would be players not doing what they should do, going after the other hydra's, but just flying around a bit or even killing other players with it.
But now with the new virtual worlds coming up, this problem can be simply overcome by starting that minigame in a seperate, private world without other players. We might also put a timer on to prevent people from flying around for hours, blocking the minigame for others.

Should not be that hard to create I think, so you also have my vote on this.

[Fry]

Sweet, thanks. Also Dennis, thanks for letting me and KS test some things out.

[tomozj]

Yeah, the minigame would be in it's own virtual world so you can't fuck with regular players.

Also, maybe another handler could be written for this, so it could be extended to tanks and hunters ?

FYI, they do lockon. I thought they didn't, so I started shooting rockets over this helicopter to scare it, and they locked on ._.

Oops. Anyway good idea!

[Stone_Cold]

Elaborating on what tomozj said, maybe you could have a whole minigame setup involving a kind of gang base scenario, but on a bigger scale, eg like the are 51 for example. You could then have all the military weapons, and 2 teams of people. Then one team storms the base with 2 hunters, 2 tanks and 2 hydras, while the other teams get like 1 tank, 1 hunter and rocket launchers, heat seerker's and maybe even use the ground-to-air cruise missle defence systems that are around the area, if you can do that im not sure??

I think that would be a great minigame, sorry if this shud have been a whole new topic, but it still revolves around the use of military vehicles, as did fry's, so  i thought i might as well put it in here as a suggestion.

[Fry]

No.

[Peter]

Point 3: As I am member of the management approved

I could not agree more. [trac=85]

[Jay]

yey

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