I thought we were gonna fight wave upon wave of Slimes. Then again, that wouldn't really be PvP.
Still, a nice idea. Even though I know people are gonna be all "OMG, THIS SUX!! 0/10 WON'T PLAY AGAIN!!" because of the whole "Attack the enemy with Slimes" concept rather than "Steal Point Machines using Ridiculously OP weapons", there's still gonna be more that would most likely play it for fun.

EDIT: Are there only gonna be Lichens? Or will there be Jelly and Ice Cubes?

Oh. Oh....

That would push people even further away from bomb use. No.

For the status mobs, how would that work with the combining of mobs?

For the sake of pressure, perhaps you can have multiple slots to fill up minerals with? And then the mucus will be distributed randomly among the the statuses(and mucus directly related to statusless lichens, so those spawn on a separate timer)? Perhaps there can be status traps around the slime machines that rotate around (so that you always have access to the machine) so that chaos clones will have a tough time DRing the entire time. Because, well, what point are oilers if they aren't lighting everything on fire?

Also, if you had a "final" tier of enemies for tiers 2 and 3, have toxoils be unlocked. That way, if you're only playing defensive and the other team is only playing offensive, you will eventually be overrun.

EXTRA THOUGHT EDIT: How about we have status vials we can throw at the other team? We shouldn't be able to enter their base but in the field we should be able to halter them. The slimes we kill can drop vials of various sorts, or maybe we have various vials back at the base to choose from so that we only get a maximum of 12 shots at a foe.

So I was looking at "Ye Olde Gate Constructing Book" for reference on how the minerals would affect the Slime output. It got real confusing when it came to Mineral Combinations, so let's just propose a new concept. You know how there's five Mineral types (Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple), and five main status types (Normal, Fire, Freeze, Poison, Shock)? How about we have it like this: whatever minerals we put affects what slime type comes out. Here's the Input - Output graph:

Luminite - Normal
Crimsonite - Fire
Valestone - Freeze
Dark Matter - Poison
Moonstone - Shock

Before we go on, let me explain the choices.
For a Slime-themed stratum, the required minerals are Valestone and Luminite, thus the Luminite requirement for Normal Jelly Cubes and Lichens. Fire is self-explanatory. Freeze need Valestone and Moonstone. But it can't use Moonstone because Valestone for Shock would be contradictory, since Valestone is the Anti-Mineral of Shock. That leaves Dark Matter for Poison, which uses that and Valestone.

Now, the Anti-Mineral isn't in affect for simplicity's sake. How would this affect the Slimes? Based on what amount of each Mineral was deposited into the machine, they would affect the ratio of Slime types in the output. For example, say you have 4 Valestone and 6 Crimsonite. That would mean you'd have a 60% chance of an Oiler spawning over a 40% chance of an Ice Cube. Mucus, or rather gelatin (can we call it Gelatin, please? Mucus disturbs me for some reason), would instead be used for how many Slime mobs are spawned in the enemy base, rather than how big the Lichens spawned would be.

Another question, does Gel degenerate over time? If you stop gathering it, does the machine "run out" and stop producing slime?

And also, I think it would be much more interesting and cool if there was a small PvP aspect of this mode, whereby there was a smallish neutral area (about the size of the middle area on Stadium) where you could collect Gel and minerals in larger quantities at once - kind of like Red Winterfest presents vs green ones. But, because there is only a small area where you can get hose high-value resources, you can fight each other in that area to try and keep control over it. Just because the whole concept of barely having any influence over your opponents' success seems strange to me. I think it has somethin to do with the fact that in this proposes gamemode there is a great possibility for a "perfect defense" strategy where no slime ever damages one or either machine... Ehh, idk, I'm too tired right now to think straight about it. I'll try to be more coherent in the morning or whenever I get the chance.

+1^

This suddenly sounds horribly generic. How about instead of all that, weapons all have the same relative damage regardless of tier? So for example, a Cutter would do the same damage as a WHB, or an autogun the same as a volc pepperbox. It would all scale to 5* because of diversity. Same for armor.

@Papaya
How would weapons with a higher atk speed dominate? I didn't mean all weapons do the same damage. I meant that all weapons are treated as if they were 5* versions of themselves. So, a GF still does more damage per hit than a volc pepperbox. The key is that a Sealed Sword or Faust does the same damage as a GF, while an Autogun/Pepperbox/Fiery Pepperbox do the same damage as the Volcanic. Essentially, you can imagine that every weapon is upgraded to 5* along the standard path or the one that does no status, or the same damage type. So Magnus would be exactly the same as a Callahan, Autogun-> Volc pepperbox, Needle Shot -> Blitz, Flourish -> FF, etc. Same for armor: Just imagine it's all upgraded to 5*.

I meant in my system. If the slimes have a hit counter instead of damage then yes, blitz and cutter would rule.

Well, ya' know,

If you had read my suggestion above I said for there to be three weapons allowed in Slime Wars, sort of like three shields allowed in Lockdown. The sword acts like a calibur, the handgun acts like a blaster, the bomb acts like a blast bomb. These 3 weapons are only allowed in SW. Using any weapons in SW feels unnatural for its game play.

Why not have them all be devilites and other fiends that turn into Overtimers after 30 seconds

If that happened, I would watch all the videos on it and laugh as people get murdered by 20 Overtimers

ogodplzno

i think the problem with that is, that the fight would be rather....boring....calibur here,calibur there, the guns would be useless, they deal little dmg and bombs aswell, the DPS is way too low
what did you craft all your weapons for?
That would also mean any person who JUST entered haven could enter, that wouldn't be very good as Oposter said, new knights should not be mixed up with veterans.
IF we should do it that way, then there should be difficulties like in the clockworks, normal, advanced and elite, newbies would go into normal and veteran players on elite. The difference would be that the enemies have more health and would deal more dmg, like in the clockworks.
Then everyone must have the same type of armor, because a newbie with proto will have a pretty big problem against slimes, may they even be weak

That's why I Think it would be better if everyone had the own swords/guns but the slimes would be neutral to everything. And that they also deal normal dmg, but ancient would be OP then....we gotta think about that

'and bombs, DPS low? Well if you didn't know bombs can attack multiple enemies at once'
OK If you think its true that bombs don't have low DPS, then plz solo vanaduke floors as PURE BOMBER till vana. lets see how long you will need.

'killing slimes is definitely not the point of slime wars!'
but it's a big part. They destroy your machine. What I meant with boring is, that the other weapons won't be used, like my point before. Can you kill slimes faster with a sword or with a bomb? sword easily.

'they have hit amounts'
EVEN BETTER: can you hit a slime with a bomb 5 times? You have to charge it! That takes time! with a sword that goes so much quicker!

Now I don't see why if people would use their own weapons would make it unbalanced....slimes would be neutral, and as YOU say, killing slimes isn't a big part

This isn't my thread but I'm trying to envision a brighter future, consider me an admin (Deleted-Knight can I be your vice president of this thread?)

Anyway Jungle-Sword yes Shard Squad for a fact have soloed King of Ashes on elite with pure bombing and they wanked it really quickly. Bombs can hit numerous slimes at once - just lure a lot of them in and detonate the blast bomb around a lot of 'em.

And yes, slimes are not the point of Slime Wars however they are a pretty important sub-part in the act. I know how it feels to be free to use other weapons. But keep in mind that if one were to use OP weapons on one team and the other team had terrible weapons then obviously one team would be lopsided than the other. I doubt OOO can make a specific command to balance out that issue.

And you might say you have to hit a slime 5 times with a bomb which may sound a lot. Hey, what if you only have to hit a slime 3 times with a bomb but 5 times with sword and gun? Bombs do look more powerful anyway.

How about bombs are insta-kills or two-hit kills? They Are stronger than Swords (regular attack) and Guns.

YEA!!!!!! +1
(im just listing all the ideas put together)
So the new bomb for Slime wars would be Vortex!

The list of weapons:

Slime sword( *5 ver. of the caliber and a reskin of coarse :D)

Slime bomb (Vortex)

and slime gun (5* ver. of any shadow gun).

So the game for SW is that you have to get goop and minerals to attack the enemy team's machine.

You can't attack the other team with your weapon. Your armor is only for looks and you will get killed if you get hit by slimes 3 times.

if you put minerals in the machine you will get special slimes shot at the other teams machine. If you put goop in the machine you increase the chance for both teams to have BIGGER slimes(or lichens).

Red mineral: fire.

Blue mineral: ice.

Green mineral: poison.

Purple mineral: CURSE!!!(new slime but only for SW)

NEW silver mineral: shock(only for SW)

1 mineral=1 slime every one second. 10= 5 slimes every 5 seconds. (if i missed anything please type in new ideas or tell me the stuff i missed.

NO! We can't just have shock as green. it doesn't make any sense! T_T