Been turfing a couple days now. Nice complement for a guy like me having trouble deciding where to go and get some kind motivation for it as well without braindstorming myself to exhaustion in the process.
Now it is like.. ah! A zone! Points! That way!
Anyway, I was thinking (which I do too much) about some features turf should have. One suggestion is an idea I like to call conquest.
It basically flow down to this:
Two turfers near a zone decide to take it. They arive in same zone before the first ones timer finished.
As they are located in same zone, the turfer-servers will react and send conquest to the two turfers devices. They will both get a red cool text (and some dramatic tune) saying: CONQUEST!
After that, each of them will be presented with three choices:
Rock, scissors and paper...
The winner get to take the zone... His/her meter will start ticking down from 100%.
If some other turfer however would enter the zone during that time (the last loser is locked out from zone as long as the blocktimer would have been normaly) a new conquest between those two will take place.
If three or more turfers should enter zone at same time (before the first ones timer gone down) it will still be between the first two at the spot. However the third can wait to enter zone and challenge the winner for it at once their conquest is over ;P
This could present some new scenarios however:
Zonecamping: People camping zones in order to play conquest towards other turfers.
Stalking: People follow other turfers in order to conquest them at each zone they visit. This could be prevented, but this could just as well happen today as well where people follow others to same spot and try to run ahead at each one. Special block timer after a conquest for 1-2 hours could be implemented so that two turfers cannot conquest again untill that timer is drained as well.
Another idea I have is to let people choose to be zombies and chase other turfers and try make them zombies and earn points. I make another thread about that as it is not without sacrifices ;P