Filed under: Warzone

An interesting thread has been started on the Warzone forums by 9-Volt about getting Running Zone and Jackpot back up:

"Adding Running Zone and Jackpot zone sub arenas
with a bot very similiar to warzones bot. Very few features
would have to be changed. Since those SVS zones are no
longer active or have a zone. Maybe we can get more people
interested in the zone in general by providing more.

Ideally just making this a Capture the Flag zone not only warzone.
Combining Running and Jackpot zone arenas may spark some more
interest in all the old flagging zones. But since people are so spoiled
with bots there needs to be a bot! Of course having Warzone the main
zone will make some people just play there instead. Kinda like Chaos being premier's host. Some people still play chaos instead of practicing.
Each week rotate events from each arena to try to drive up the playerbase."

I’ve made a couple of posts on the thread with my own views and suggestions. I’m in favour of reviving the old zones, but then again I’ve always supported the underdog in Subspace. I’ve never had (or never really wanted) powers or to be staff in the main ss zones, except for a brief stint as an event-hosting mod in Alpha along with The Underlord, but I have been:

• An smod in Gladiator League
• A mod, then an smod in two different attempts to get Turf Arizona back up and running
• A ref in RZJPL
• The owner of the tragic Invasion SVS - my own pathetic attempt to get a SVS turf zone off the ground - which never got further than being hosted on my own PC

I think the only way that this will happen, and have any chance of being successful, is if WZ switches to ASSS. During the Premier League merger with DZA and then with Chaos I was deadest against it. The main reason for my opposition was that in a merged zone running on Subgame the public spawn is king. With ASSS that is no longer the case as sub-arenas can appear on the zones list.

Hockey Zone and Powerball are well on their way to doing this. Maybe one of positives to come out of the death of SSCX is the merger of HZ and PB. There’s still a few kinks to be ironed out. The PB bots need to be converted to ASSS modules and for some reason when I enter the zone through PB then go to a HZ arena my zone specific ships don’t show up. They do show up if I enter through HZ though .

So in a couple of months we could see all SVS ball games (HZ, PB, Proball, Basketball, Football) in a single zone and all SVS flag games (WZ, RZ, JP, Turf) in a single zone too.

That just leaves Chaos/League (and maybe Alpha as well) to get their act together and finally have Premier League back where it belongs. On the list of zones.