Over the past four plus years Lucky Spammer and the dev team have occasionally changed up on the growing monotony in the tagpro community through small temporary events. These events, such as the gravity tower, the popular halloween survival rooms, and Easter shootout have provided a new and usually welcomed way to play the game for a short burst before the return to the usual pubs. Over the past four years however, I do not think any event game mode has captured the adoration and overwhelming support that this new Egg Ball event has garnered. When I look at Egg Ball I see an almost separate game waiting to be mined for new styles and strategies and a new source of players searching for the different type of gameplay this mode provides.

Historically the events have been small tweaks and puzzles on the core game or mini games with simple strategies typically revolving around a race or a last man standing; but I think Egg Ball is much more. Egg Ball is not a pupdrunk or a survival mode, I view Egg Ball as the next neutral flag, a new and exciting game type that could and should become a mainstay of the game and community at large. Incorporation of the Egg Ball mode into production group pages can provide an entirely new and fleshed out game type for a community that is starving for new content and updates on a now four year old webgame.

I realize in the past that the devs have been hesitant to incorporate any event modes into the production group pages due to potential bugs or conflicts, but I believe that in the case of this game mode, it has overwhelming demand from a large part of the community. It has not been entirely unheard of before for features debuted in events to become permanent, although in the case of the gravity well I believe it was intended as permanent before its sneak peek in the event. I believe that unlike the majority of events, Egg Ball has the depth, excitement, and replayability to warrant continuation.

With the original Tagpro release Luckyspammer and the dev team managed to catch lightning in a bottle with a simple sprite sheet rendered 2D capture the flag game. A community spawned from that, but never quite got a foothold in popularity. With Egg Ball, Luckyspammer has once again managed to capture lightning in a bottle, and it would be a shame to let that slip away. I see immense potential for Egg Ball as it’s own game mode available in groups, I’m dying to see it played in organized settings with voice chat.

PLS LUCKY SPAMMER THIS SHIT IS MY NEW CRACK AND I WANT TO PLAY IF WITH MUMBLE AND MICS AND DEFENSIVE STRATEGIES MY NIPPLES ARE BURSTING OUT OF MY SHIRT