Red. wrote: Red. wrote: I wonder what plausible reasoning was used to determine that a velocity restriction of 450 550 would be a better learning curve for new players. To me, it seems like it was the wrong implementation, but made with good intentions;- of balancing a not really balance-oriented gamemode (some maps are short and easy, and a few, are practically impossible).

By putting a velocity restriction on player, you cap the speed-ceiling, (duhh), and yes that brings walkers and hoppers closer to eachother speed-wise, but they are still on two different skill-levels. And one still moves significantly faster than the other.

By capping speed you kill the competitiveness of finding ways to go even faster on these different maps. You make shaving miliseconds off records astronomically more tedious as the varience between a bad and an absolute perfect pathing run, boil down to going 550 in a straight line for as long as possible. (also not all ways of getting speed boosts are game breaking exploits or involves breaking server rules)

What you really want is players; - new or not - who already knows how to BHOP, or you can [indirectly] teach BHOP, in order to be competitive with the other players that do know and use these mechanics availible for them.
If everyone knew how to BHOP, then this velocity restriction would not be on the server for these reasons.


you get idea

You can't advertise a server as new player friendly forever as new players eventually turn into experienced ones.
And if the new players, turned experienced, realize the server has a speed/skill-cap, then they would be more likely to switch to another server that allows the players to experiment and practice their skill?
And if you were to keep players pinned to a reduced skill-level, then you're just breeding bad low-skill players?


Another higher-up suggestion is to remove BHOP from the server, but not everone seems to be onboard on that. Maybe they will also take that away in the future.
At that point it will no longer be deathrun. it will be deathwalk.