people disappearing mass

[DoctorFinkle]

(05-27-2021, 11:12 PM)fireboneee Wrote: People letting their mass disappear when they are about to get eaten is truly one of the most annoying things... but I don’t think respawn button should be limited, nor should it be removed entirely.

Firstly, the ghost cells should stay longer so that the attacker still has a chance to eat them.

But if you go a bit further, you could start questioning if ghost cells have to disappear in the first place (yes they should eventually for reasons such as getting cells to out of map positions and then respawning —> cells wouldn’t be eaten... but), what about giving these cells the ability to interact with stuff such as viruses (pop a respawned cell), although the respawned cell shouldn’t be able to acquire more mass. That way you could kill a respawned person who was bigger than you.

For situations like changing server or changing account the player could just appear as respawned to avoid the possibility of deleting mass that way.

Lastly, there is an issue with respawning in portals, you could go in a portal with millions of mass, shrink to a few thousand mass in the portal, and respawn: other players would only be able to get the few thousand mass. Not sure what could / should be done about that but I just wanted to address

Even if the mass stays for a bit longer, there is no guarantee that all of it would get consumed in time. Players trying to eat the dead mass would still get virus-spammed by oblivious/rude players or even the respawner themselves. The only problem that I can see in restricting the feature to players below a certain mass threshold is if a player spawns in the game and exceeds the limit after a few seconds before getting split on by a much bigger player and not being able to skip the home screen. A solution to that would be for the game to skip the home screen by default if a player dies within a certain period of time after spawning.