Domination Spot
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A Domination Spot (short: spot) is a map area that can be captured. Initially it belongs to no team, its state is neutral. It will show a white flag. All spots can be only captured by one team at a time. In some gametypes, like Conquest, spots may be locked for a team.
Each Domination Spot is visualized by its flag. The flag is colored accordingly to the owning team, red or blue. If no team owns the spot, then it is neutral. The color for neutral spots is white.
The following screenshot shows an example for a spot. This is the default look and best practice. But it is up to the mapper for each map, and eventually may be different.
Additionally, the broadcast will display a simple text visualization for each spot:
- Opening Parenthesis: Round for neutral, curly for red and square for blue
- Two lines used for the capture animation
- The spot name (single letter, A, B, C, D or E)
- Two more lines
- Closing Parenthesis
Each spots text will be colored accordingly, red, blue or white for neutral.
The following screenshot shows all three variants. Spot A belongs to red, spot B is neutral and team blue owns C.
While capturing a spot, the broadcast will display a neat animation:
- For red, the capture state symbol '>' will move from left to right every few seconds past. The opening parenthesis will change from the neutral symbol to the red symbol '{' (curly bracket).
- For blue, the capture state symbol '<' will move from right to left. The closing parenthesis will change from the neutral symbol to the blue symbol '[' (square bracket).
- The capture state symbol will display a cross ('x'), if both teams have equal strength at the spot.
- The capture state symbol will display a double arrow ('»' for red, or '«' for blue), if the teams strength is higher than 50 % of the teams max strength.
The following picture shows the broadcast animation for neutral to red.
To capture (or neutralize) a Domination Spot, one team needs the superior amount of tees in its area. Then the capturing progress will begin. While the capturing time goes on, the corresponding team flag will move onto the neutral flag. Additionally, the broadcast will display a neat animation for the remaining time.
Some quick facts about the capturing process:
- Capture together: The capturing runs faster for every additional player of the team in the area.
- Dynamic capturing: The required time to capture (or neutralize) a spot depends on the team size. For a single player the required time increases with the team size. That means, capturing solo in a full 8 player team will take awfully long. But of course the needed time may be reduced by capturing together.
- Handicap: If a team is outnumbered, they will have a little speed bonus while capturing.
- Capturing abandoned: If a capture progress is running but no tees are within the spots area, the capture progress will slowly reverse.
- Powerup: Ninjas will capture double as fast. ⚔️
The required time to capture (or neutralize) a spot depends on the team size. The team can capture together to reduce the overall time. Every additional player will speed up the process a bit.
Let us do the quick math for a better understanding.
- For example, let as take a base capture time of 10 s. If all player of a team capture, it will take 10 s.
- The first capturing player has a CaptureStrength of 100.
- Every additional capturing player has a CaptureStrength of 30.
- Special case: For two player teams, the second player has a CaptureStrength of 60.
Now let us have a look at different team sizes and their effect on the capture time for various number of capturing players.
| Team size | Max Cap. Strength | Num. of cap. players | Capture Strength | Capture Time (s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 100 | |||
| 1 | 100 | 10 | ||
| 2 | 160 | |||
| 1 | 100 | 16 | ||
| 2 | 160 | 10 | ||
| 3 | 160 | |||
| 1 | 100 | 16 | ||
| 2 | 130 | 12,3 | ||
| 3 | 160 | 10 | ||
| 4 | 190 | |||
| 1 | 100 | 19 | ||
| 2 | 130 | 14,6 | ||
| 3 | 160 | 11,9 | ||
| 4 | 190 | 10 | ||
| 8 | 310 | |||
| 1 | 100 | 31 | ||
| 2 | 130 | 23,8 | ||
| 3 | 160 | 19,4 | ||
| 4 | 190 | 16,3 | ||
| 5 | 220 | 14,1 | ||
| 6 | 250 | 12,4 | ||
| 7 | 280 | 11,1 | ||
| 8 | 310 | 10 |
At the beginning of each match, all spots are neutral. They belong to no team.
In the broadcast, neutral spots are displayed with round parenthesis '(' and ')'.
If one team is superior in the spots area, it will start capturing it. This process will take up a few seconds. The corresponding team flag will shift above the white flag. In the shown screenshot, red is capturing the spot B.
Meanwhile, the broadcast will display a neat animation.
Once the capturing process is completed, the spot will remain its state and belong to the team. The flag will be colored accordingly.
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For red, the broadcast will display both parenthesis with curly brackets '{' and '}'. It is colored in red.
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For blue, the broadcast will display both parenthesis with square brackets '[' and ']'. It is colored in blue.
If a spot is captured by a team and the opponent team is superior in this area. Then the opponent team will start neutralizing this spot. The colored flag will shift down, and the neutral flag gets visible again.
In the following screenshot, blue is neutralizing spot B, that belongs to the red team.
The broadcast will show the same animation as when capturing, but colored white. The parenthesis will be round '(' or ')'.
In the following picture, team blue is recapturing the red spot B.
