[SUGGESTION] Rune Mod idea for the next version

Well, as I am the guy for da gfx. Don't call it runes, call it hats. Then we could think up more creative ways show the effects.

I will test it later. Have you already done some massive testing with other players?

edit: hehe post 1337 in this thread.

That would be acceptable, although a seperate mute chat option wouldnt hurt aswell. Both may be an improvement.

I doubt that it will not completely break the game. Why do you need those powerups? If someone needs hearts then collect them, but adding a option to randomly (based on powerup spawn) regenerate 10 hearts without going through the process of finding and collecting them while escaping gives you a huge advantage. Especially the last point.
While a normal player needs to excape and collect those hearts, which also proves his movement skills, the player with this powerup even can fight normally while getting his hearts auto filled up. You take away a big part of traditional tactics and skills required (escaping, movement). Why? The only reasons i can think of are making new players starts easier, and adding diversity for its own purpose. Both are not worth to sacrifice what you need to to add it.

I think Landil's signature says best what i try to tell you.

First i want to say: No offense, but way too much quotes, you use more quotes from my post than this post has lines.
It damages clarity and obscures essential statements.

First to adress your points:
The "tactics" you add is go for powerup or not. this is nothing special and worth to add. You force players to consider this, or theill face disadvantages, instead of letting players develop their own tactics (which is the true meaning of tactics from my point of view, nothing forced). You ask how runes make new players starts easier?
just because code gets more comples, doesnt mean game does. I noticed that in Quake Live, where as a newbie i only got average stats (thanks to matchmaking you only fight other newbies). But i collected some powerups, which is nothing complex, and with quadra damage i got fat kill streaks. It gives good feeling as newbie, but if you think of it you notice that you dont got these kills because you improved youself (which is way too slow/limited for most gamers) but only due to that powerup.

I got some facts out of these quotes that were unknown to me before. I really hope this is not going to happen, but the way you said it lets me expect opposite. I once made a topic why i love teeworlds.
Very important points were the 100% skill dependency, 0% luck which is essential for me in a serious pvp game.
Although its hard to find a game which does not feature luck, there are still some very few games that stay true to skill. Teeworlds was one of those game, but if you add invisibility, and even powerups that grant LUCK-BASED
bonuses, you give up all this. I am open to discuss most issues, and i even would give health regen runes a try.
But invisibility and luck ist a nogo, if you implement this, you have jsut ruined every single gamemode that will contain it, and you cant discuss that with me. Sorry but not invisibility and luck.
I also enjoyed the "easy to learn, hard to master" philosophy, which you seem to oppose with adding "complex" stuff to add "tactics" (i disagree with the correct use of these words here).