Survival match type - gtaylor/btmux_battlesnake GitHub Wiki

Central pillars

• Allow people to join/leave open matches.
• Minimize waiting for matches to start/end.
• Should be able to take units of any tonnage and have a fun match.
• Players should be allowed to swap units between waves.

Example match flow

• Player creates an arena. Can set open/private, ranked/unranked.
• Player starts match, gets halfway through wave 1.
• Player's friend logs in, wants to play. Sits in the arena lobby/OL.
• Wave 1 finished. Player's friend spawns into match.
• Player's mech is repaired/reloaded 100% before next wave.
• Difficulty for wave 2 takes into account Player's friend joining.
• Wave 2 is finished successfully. Player's friend has to leave.
• Wave 3 goes back down to single player, with a lower BV pool.

Between waves

• Players can join/leave the map and/or swap out units.
• Any unused fixers/reloaders are purged from the map.
• Units are repaired/reloaded 100% when the leader continues to the next wave.
• Arena leader types continue to proceed to the next wave.

Ranked/ladder matches

These are meant to be more controlled matches where scores can be compared to one another more directly.

• Players can't join/leave during the match.
• No unit swapping allowed.