Restricting area effect heals and buffs to the mission team

**Rarebit**

It looks like we may be able to restrict area effect heals and buffs to the mission team in the not too distant future (although please note that this has not yet been scheduled or implemented, much yet tested, and is at this point merely theoretical, and may not end up working out for all we know).

This would mean that when you used an ability like Group Repairs, it would only affect people on your mission team--not all friendlies within the vicinity, as it does now.

The two main reasons we consider this change important are:

1) Gives small groups an increased chance for survival against large groups, since under this scheme, the large groups could no longer keep themselves fully healed/buffed with just one healer/buffer.

2) Prevents most heal/buff spam at parties etc.

It should also require people to think a little more tactically in large-scale PVP, as teams will have to pay a little more attention to their collective ability loadouts. We think that this change would make for more balanced PVP and more fun in general, but, as we're far from perfect, we'd also like to hear your thoughts on the matter. The one thing I've thought of so far that I think would be a slight down-side is that simulacra/proxies would no longer receive area effect heals/buffs, since they're not actually on the mission team.

**MotorZ**

Nice to see something able to be changed :p

Yeah, the simulacrum thing could be annoying. I think this could help a ton with the area heal spam though. I don't like having to remove all the graphical effects just so I don't lag.

Zudrag

I love you and the rest of the dev team. Thank you.

**Yasamuu**

Zudrag wrote:

I love you and the rest of the dev team. Thank you.

**Renesis13B**

Sounds like a reasonable change. If I remember correctly pre cr 2.0 some heals and buffs had this restriction so it should be possible.

**Rarebit**

Hold off on the love until we actually manage to pull it off. ;)

Zudrag

What about bribery? Will that speed things up?

**Renesis13B**

Just knowing your actually looking into this a good thing. So many balance issues like this come up and we never hear anything about it.

NightTrace

Yasamuu1 wrote:

Zudrag wrote:
I love you and the rest of the dev team. Thank you.

**BeBeH** · 04/25/2007 20:27:27

**BeBeH**

NightTrace wrote:

Yasamuu1 wrote:
Zudrag wrote:
I love you and the rest of the dev team. Thank you.

**jl10899**

Bout *CENSORED* time, it will prove who can zerg and who pwns

**ZaneZavin**

Great idea, please make it so.

Tenshi

Awesomeness, I foresee structured pvp teams in the near future... SMILEY

Danger_Frog1471

Finally! this should be a major kick in a Swingers for teh zerg! Just pray it works SMILEY
Still not sure about the sim business but its one orthe other XD