Baseball (no not quite that boring) Thread

Ok here's a MOD idea I thought of last night and it just seemed so cool I couldn't stop thinking about it, then when I woke up in the morning I was still thinking about it:

It would be a Comical/Sports type mod for Half-Life 1 or Half-Life 2... it could be made for another game but it would lose all its charm, so there wouldn't be any point.

Basically, it would be baseball where the ball is a headcrab and the bat is a crowbar. The crowbar wouldn't hurt the headcrab when swung (it would be a sideways swing rather than the hacking action in normal Half-Life) but it would whack it... like hitting it with a baseball bat. I'm not sure how the pitching/hitting would work, but basically the pitcher would pitch the headcrab then the hitter swings at it and it would somehow be calculated where the headcrab gets hit to. After that, the hitter would have to make a home run - getting to a base doesn't make him safe, but I suppose it could still have a sliding feature to duck flying headcrabs anyway.

Anyway... once the headcrab has been hit and is in play, fielders can catch it in their glove, then chuck it again. If the headcrab hits the runner, they die instantly and not make the run - one out. The headcrab can hit the runner in one of two ways - jumping at the runner by itsself, or being thrown at the runner by a fielder. If the runner sees the headcrab coming he could bat it away just before it hits him... just like when he's receieving the pitch. As with normal baseball the hitter/runner dude can be caught out after hitting the ball when it was pitched.

The twist to this is that once the hitter starts running, fielders can try to obstruct his path if they want, but they don't have any weapon to stop him with unless they're holding the headcrab (they'd be able to throw pretty hard + fast so throwing a headcrab would be quite effective). The runner could use his crowbar to kill fielders (one hit = one kill) to (a) get them out of his way and (b) reduce the number of fielders that can throw the headcrab at him for that hit.

It could be played using two main gametypes:
1) Team vs. Team: The members of the batting team that aren't actually batting at that time could run around in the stadium's seating area hacking eachother with crowbars... or something like that
2) Everyone vs. One: Everyone gets a turn at batting and just fields while they wait for their turn, so they're never waiting to play.

There'd have to be some modifications to those ideas to make it actually playable (ie. not too easy for the batter or not too easy for the fielders or whatever...) but I think its a pretty cool idea... at least to remember for future possible use

-jEFF

(ps. beer beer beer)

this is a bad idea and heres a few reasons why... what would determine fielding positions? If someone got a position they didn't like they would exit the game. also It would be very slow paced because if theres 20 people in a game and 9 are playing on the field and 1 is batting that still leaves 10 people just standing around. Another is, the batter would pretty much just aim and run... it wouldnt be organized at all really the only entertaining parts would be if you had the headcrap or if you are the batter... I'm not trying to discourage you and your mods but consider planning it out more... you really may be on to something because sports mods are few and far between so maybe work on this idea and tweak it and you may be on to something

lol don't worry about discouraging me- I know its a very loose concept and it would probably be very hard (if at all possible) to make it work as a fun game, but hey- I saw a forum for MOD ideas so I posted its not like this is my lifelong dream we're talking about

However, if it was ever made...
Fielding positions: random for each hit I guess, but you could move around wherever you want once the ball (well... headcrab) is pitched so it wouldn't piss people off too much... also you couldnt hit the headcrab too far, so pretty much every fielder has a shot at getting the headcrab. Maybe you could make it so the fielders could chuck their gloves at the runner as well or something

As for people waiting around, thats why team vs. team would probably be pretty crap... one vs. everyone would probably be the best way to do it, then there's no waiting around.

-jEFF

- Edited By PsychoBrat On Sat 17th, Jan 2004 @ 7:28:45pm