What would be pretty awesome I think though not a huge endeavor to implement is the ability for a host to display a custom message in the hosting lobby, something that could be 'Welcome to my shopper game, rules are ABL CBA AFR' or an explanation of a not so regularly played scheme, or even an away message like 'the host is gone taking a wee while players join up'. Here's the way I'd implement it: Have the ability to save it in the scheme file, while being able to override the saved message with a lobby command like /msg Welcome to my game

I would like to have the ability to fine tune all options in the game settings screen without having to use external scheme editors.

In particular, it would be good if we could set the number of rounds required to win the match to every value between 1 and 9 (at the moment you can't select 4, 6 or 8 rounds to win). Also, it would be nice if we could fine-tune weapon, utility and health crate probabilites (that is, select an exact percentage of a given type of crate falling, rather than the current system of setting probabilities from 0 to 10 blocks).

Someone suggested this to me on WormNET - I haven't considered whether or not it would be a good idea, though.

I think this would be most usable if they reflected "properly" (like light does) rather than just bouncing back the same direction.

[00:33:02.66] meteor..muzerWA: yeah i have new idea for 4
[00:33:07.00] meteor..muzerWA: reflecting arrows
[00:33:12.76] meteor..muzerWA: its an scheme optin
[00:33:20.46] muzerWA..meteor: reflecting?
[00:33:20.78] meteor..muzerWA: arrows reflect when hittin a place
[00:33:27.14] meteor..muzerWA: yeah
[00:33:28.32] muzerWA..meteor: oh, right
[00:33:31.58] muzerWA..meteor: when do they stop? Lol
[00:33:42.80] meteor..muzerWA: hmm you tell the number
[00:33:47.26] meteor..muzerWA: in the options
[00:33:55.60] muzerWA..meteor: I think quite often they would just bounce off and hit you... lol
[00:34:06.84] meteor..muzerWA: yeah cause of that its interesting:D

As of 2013, Armageddon's AI is VERY outdated. It wouldn't be a bad idea if its AI could be improved. Since it's already very accurate at high levels, it's probably the only thing that shouldn't be changed:

• Grenades: The AI never takes bouncing into account. I don't think making that happen could be very difficult (As Reloaded and Revolution's AI pulls impossible grenade throws with little effort). While it cannot use fragmented grenades (Cluster Bombs, Banana Bombs) well either... they are too random, so it's understandable (High-level AI could put Cluster Bombs and Banana Bombs just under the target, as if it were a mine)


• Weapons with high blast radius: The AI almost always damages itself when using Dynamite as they don't jump out of it, instead walking and not having enough time to avoid damage (On standard schemes, that is)


• Teamplay: Even on deathmatch levels such as Superstar or Elite, when the AI heavily outnumbers the human player, it does inhuman efforts to NOT damaging teammates, even if it's the only opponent remaining with only 1 HP. Even though this would make the last Deathmatch levels a little too hard, it would make the AI a little more realistic


• Scenery: The AI is excellent at considering static obstacles when shooting, but absolutely not at taking oil barrels, crates and mines into account. They could even have the same priority as teammates ('Try not to blow them up, unless the enemy losses are higher')


• Using weapons: The AI wastes Air Strikes as if they were nothing, targeting places in which there is no worm. Each weapon could have a 'price' for the AI, making the AI only use high-price weapons (Those that are rare or have too few ammunition) when it knows it can deal serious damage or outright kill one or more worms (Likewise for the Dynamite). The AI could also be 'trained' to use more weapons (The Intermediate ones would be enough)


• Tactics: The only difference between each AI level is accuracy. Level 1 AI will still try to do very 'technical' shots even though it's not very successful at that. Each AI level could have a different playstyle: Low-level AIs could be more reliant on sitting and 5-second grenades, full-power bazooka shots (So that wind doesn't affect it), short-range shotguns and the such. As its level becomes higher, the AI would start trying to do more difficult shots (And why not trying to exploit certain glitches, such as skipwalking?)


• Accuracy: Now this is a difficult one. As of now, the AI is equally accurate in every kind of shot, be it easy or nigh-impossible, at all levels. I think a good starting point to solve this problem is weighing each possible shot by difficulty (Distance, number of obstacles, 'gap width' - The narrower, the more difficult-, required bounces -In case it chooses using a grenade-, teammates' closeness, wind -Bazooka, Petrol Bomb, Napalm Strike-, etc.). Each one of these problems would lower the chances of a low-level AI shot hitting the intended target significantly, while it would hardly affect a high-level AI. Regardless of the level, this would help choosing the most convinient target

A last possibility would be adding AI personalities like Worms Reloaded (eg. Reckless, in which the AI does not care about teammates AT ALL), but I think that's not necessary

In case some schemes, this could be handy, because it would remember not only the victories so far, but the collected crates and used weapons as well.

Adding a button for this would likely to be problematic, so it could be done using a chat command like "/save" which would save the match using a default name - ie. timestamp, players, etc. - or "/save filename" to name it something else.

The saved match would contain:
- The scheme file - this might be no problem at all.
- The players' names - this could be done by a list, or something, only saving the actual players, allowing spectators to join in mid-game or not to be required to join in order to continue the match. The player colors and joining order shouldn't matter. Also, it would be easier for players if this would be saved in a readable form, so if someone changed his/her nickname, it can be changed back to fit.
- The number of teams a player has - this could allow a player to continue a game with a different team, using a different color. In case of the players being listed like the example above, this info should go after each player in a numerical format, assigning a different number to each differently colored team, and storing these numbers after the players' list. This system would allow players to have more than one team of the same or different color, or allied teams.
- The list of weaponry each different colored team (or alliance) has - this could be saved, again, in a format similar to the scheme format, or as a simple list of weapons and how many does a team have. Either way, here, the scheme's setting of stockpile should be taken into consideration during loading, whether to fill up every weapon that the scheme provides and take away the others (-> no stockpile), to add the default weapons to the accumulated ones (-> stockpile) or to do nothing (-> antistockpile).
- The number of victories each team or alliance has.

To load a match, a command such as "/load filename" should be used, and a succesful loading should switch the users to the post-game/next-game lobby with each of the teams having their victory count set, and the weaponry information loaded to wherever that information is stored between games.

In case of something not going as the saved match would "except", an error message should be displayed in the form of a chat line. These errors messages should contain, in case of what went wrong, that:
- The saved match's file is corrupted.
- One or more players are missing - here, the possibility of someone's nickname not being the same as it was during the last time should be noted, as well as which player is missing.
- One or more teams are missing - since the loading would match the teams with the players, this could display who's team is missing too.

And that's probably it, I hope I provided as much details and ideas as possible. :)