Space Plop Shopper

I tested the scheme. By the way, we can do this together online one day. I often prefer testing schemes with others than playing. You seem very active creating schemes, we could form a new community of schemes, or simply you could join PoC or WoSC to revive one of these communities. I would totally go for it having someone to test things often. I have many unfinished projects and things in mind that I would feel encouraged to work on them without asking random people to test them. Having someone opened to test the ideas would be good.

Now going back to the scheme analysis: I liked the idea of destructible terrain. Makes it easier for newbies and eliminates the problem of hard to plop hides. Not sure if it is better or not, though. I guess it is.

The problem of implementing destructible terrain is that with shot doesn't end turn it can be easily destoyed, that's why you thought on this and made the scheme in single shot mode.

The bad aspect of single shot is that you cannot make nice combos and the gameplay is not so fast paced.

The good aspect of single shot is that you have more time to position the weapon and calculate the right angle to plop the worm.

I noticed that the scheme still has many crates spawning per turn. I think that in single shot mode, only one crate per turn (maybe two, but I think one is better) should spawn on the map. With many options, players would have many options always to plop and they would pick the most op weapon for an easy plop without thinking much. With few weapons, the player would have the feeling of the old shopper scheme, more like the Team17 scheme feeling that you got a mole from crate and that's what you have to attack someone, you have to use it wisely, think more.

I'm still in doubt what scheme is better. I think I still prefer multishot over single shot because it's more dynamic, but single shot is very nice too. However, I prefer the destructible terrain over the indestructible. Maybe you (or we?) could make the scheme in shot doesn't end turn mode with very few weapons available, played on destructible terrains. Combos would be rarer, players would need to save weapons to make combos. And this in a way that the map will not be easily destroyed in few turns.

Yeah, the official version you published is great. It doesn't need changes. Maybe only the maps must be well chosen/designed, as you said.

WoSC and PoC are the only existing scheme creation communities of WA. WoSC was the first one, founded by myself and DumbBongChow, although the idea was mine. Later, Proof of Concept was founded by TheMadCharles and I think STRGRN too. You can see the two communities clicking on their links. Below my profile avatar you can click at both of them.

Now that we are having this conversation, you inspired me to continue my projects. I progressed today with 2 great ideas of mine that weren't released. I have a third idea in mind that I didn't start, but it's minor than the other two and easy to be made. I have a 4th project that it's the second Drive for Weapons map and a 5th that is my first new terrain. The 6th one is to design maps + scheme for an idea proposed by czlowiek-kredens, another scheme maker.  I'm considering a 7th project using IndiMask module. Not to say the old schemes of mine that I want to update for v3.8, like Snooker.

So, what do you prefer? Revive WoSC, revive PoC or create a new community of schemes (now that people are talking about leaving old clans to found new ones)? Reviving WoSC would be easier as I'm admin and there's a board already. However, I'm up for new things. It can be exciting start from the beginning again. And PoC has more people that actually are active in the game (not in the community). PoC also has a Discord that is well organized and has a decent amount of people there.

What I thought is that we could also revive WoSC, with a brand new face, new logo, new administration, new stuff. you would be administrator and Co-founder of the new version of the community.

I decided to invite you to WoSC at least for now. The most important thing, though, to keep a community alive is to play together and work on stuff together. I feel that there's a risk about creating a new community without activity and all the effort of creating it would be in vain.

So, let's temporarily be on WoSC, this way you can feel what is actually a TUS community like this one. And we stay temporarily here, if we work together and enjoy it for the next weeks or months, we can decide to either start a new one and leave this one as a historical community, or simply make it grow again.