JohnnyDime
07-06-2006, 07:27 PM
Not sure how much I like this idea, but it came to me so I thought I would throw it out there. :)
Count the total number of people playing the game and figure out what 1/3rd is. The ref takes this many vests out onto the field and scatters them around more or less evenly across the whole field. They can be placed as a single vest or 2-3 together.
The game starts in the staging area. When the ref says go, everyone has 60 seconds to get onto the field and spread out. When you find a vest, you have to put it on and stay where you are. When the time limit is up, the ref yells "Game on" and away we go.
Everyone who found a vest get's 3 hits, everyone else gets 2. Or maybe you could do 2 and 1, but you get the idea.
In it's simplest form, this would just play out as a deathmatch, but you could add this element to other games. The one problem I can't figure out how to overcome is having the non-vests just standing around the vest people and destroying them as soon as the game starts. Of course, since the vests have more hits anyway, and given the normal disengage rules, maybe this wouldn't be so bad. Not sure.
The other way you could do it would be, once you find a vest, you go to one side of the field to start. When the time runs out, the non-vests just gather on the other side.
Obviously, the idea here is to help makes the teams more interesting from time to time, and to give some motivation to actually finding a vest by increasing the number of hits you have. Otherwise, people like me would just hang around with my Acme crew and wait for the other schleps to find the vests. :)
Count the total number of people playing the game and figure out what 1/3rd is. The ref takes this many vests out onto the field and scatters them around more or less evenly across the whole field. They can be placed as a single vest or 2-3 together.
The game starts in the staging area. When the ref says go, everyone has 60 seconds to get onto the field and spread out. When you find a vest, you have to put it on and stay where you are. When the time limit is up, the ref yells "Game on" and away we go.
Everyone who found a vest get's 3 hits, everyone else gets 2. Or maybe you could do 2 and 1, but you get the idea.
In it's simplest form, this would just play out as a deathmatch, but you could add this element to other games. The one problem I can't figure out how to overcome is having the non-vests just standing around the vest people and destroying them as soon as the game starts. Of course, since the vests have more hits anyway, and given the normal disengage rules, maybe this wouldn't be so bad. Not sure.
The other way you could do it would be, once you find a vest, you go to one side of the field to start. When the time runs out, the non-vests just gather on the other side.
Obviously, the idea here is to help makes the teams more interesting from time to time, and to give some motivation to actually finding a vest by increasing the number of hits you have. Otherwise, people like me would just hang around with my Acme crew and wait for the other schleps to find the vests. :)