In Discussion Castle siege with less players needed

In theory, I think this could be a good idea. Castle Siege is also one of the few games I haven't got all achievements for. I have a few concerns though. Firstly, would games fill up, even with the decreased number of players needed? Castle Siege was never the most popular game mode, and a lot of the day I doubt there'd be enough people wanting to play to fill up a server. This raises the question of would it be worth it for Mineplex to invest so much time into the game if it's barely ever going to fill up. Secondly, with only half as many players, I worry that the game could become quite unbalanced. The maps are quite large, and with only half as many defenders, it may be difficult to properly defend each access point. Even though there are equally less undead, it would be easier for them to sneak through into the castle as it's less defended, potentially making the game unbalanced and boring.

These issues could be dealt with though, in which case I would completely agree to these changes if the game mode were to be brought back.

 

Ah yes. I was going to suggest that but I evidently forgot to. My bad.

 

I love the idea of Castle Siege coming back. I don't know if it could happen, but as it was one of my favorite Mineplex games I would love to see it. Plus your idea on smaller maps and less players would help keep a few servers running.

 

These are fair points. My issue with it though was that I worry that by adding many games back, the playerbase will be too thinly stretched. Even now, only 5 arcade games ever get any games going and so by adding back a big game such as Castle Siege, even with the halved player max, could make even fewer arcade games have consistent games. If Mineplex were to add a game back/add a new game, they would want it to bring in a substantial number of players so that it doesn't cripple the player count of their other games. Following on from this, your second point was that many Castle Siege players didn't leave when it was removed. So by adding Castle Siege back, they would all move away from the games they currently play and return to Castle Siege, creating a deficit of players in the other game modes.

At this point, whether you think this is a good idea or not is entirely dependant on your opinion on Castle Siege. If you enjoy it, then you wouldn't mind this but if you didn't, you'd be upset that your favourite games may not fill up as much anymore. Now, I don't know which option is better but I can definitely see both sides of the argument. This was the area of discussion I was trying to create.

 

While I agree that not having a separate NPC would lower the number of people in arcade games, what you said about getting people from the lobbies to play Castle Siege does not work in reality. Yes, there are many people that are in lobbies, but they are all either waiting for games, AFK or talking to people. If they're doing one of those three things, they're not going to be able to be playing Castle Siege. That is assuming, of course, that all of these people would even want to play Castle Siege. In reality, the number of people who would want to play Castle Siege that are sat in lobbies would on average be quite small, and if they were the people who wanted to play Castle Siege, that wouldn't help solve the issue of spreading the playerbase too thinly, would it?