The flag system

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What's everyones take on flags?

 

I personally hate them. The stat buff is fun but it forces you to play areas. If you are getting dominated and lean into towers. You are losing war rank. And eventually they will drop giants on you.  I don;t see them as stat bonuses to be honest I see them more as a stat loss if you don;t have them. And once you start getting pushed back the flags widen the gap between you and the oppsoing team. I would suggest making a mode without flags and have war rank based on demi god kills.

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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

Flags are fine to me, they give you something to strive for, mini-goals that can be accomplished by people who don't like just march up, get gold and exp slowly and then destroy towers. A kind of build up to the citadel if your on Conquest Mode. The new mode would be useful, as sometiems you just want blood and none of the hopping about on flags. In anycase, you have a rather valid point that they do cause a distraction from killing other DGs.

Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

What's everyones take on flags?
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they are better when playing larger games like 4v4s

example of why they are bad:

crucible, 2v2, 1 lane, 3 flags located away from where creeps run

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Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

Flags and the bonuses they provide are the incentive to control territory. It creates goals to strive for, it forces teamwork and creates hotspot territory wars.

Play a few games of Fortress: Notice how the dearth of flags tends to center action in one spot for the most part... the main creep lanes. In every other mode, the large variety of flags give you a reason to walk around and do stuff, and a bigger incentive to stay in your lane... or at least invest in a flag lock if you intend to leave it.

Crucible is, yet again, odd man out. All its flags are off by themselves, and especially the lower two flags are a death sentence to send demigods to, sometimes.

Reply #4 from Demigod Forums Top

Moot point, Stacked, since Crucible is a piece of stink map anyway.

Reply #5 from Demigod Forums Top

Crucible needs to be taken out behind the shed and put out of its misery. 

Reply #6 from Demigod Forums Top

Any real good game I've played (IE:Both teams were very good), there were maybe 1 or 2 kills for most of the game. If the rank were based on DG kills, it wouldnt of moved much.