Half-Cab is no longer in my fileshare. Half-Cab v2 is posted. See the post here.

Half-Cab

Fusing two very distinct styles of gameplay, Half-Cab is a minigame that is great fun for everyone!

Each team has very different goals:
The defenders must drive their VIP to the destinations while dodging the snipers. Only the driver of the VIP can be killed. The rest of the delivery men must keep the snipers from realizing where the real driver is and must recover the VIP when the driver is killed.
The Attackers must, from their base, kill the VIP's driver to keep the VIP from reaching his destinations.

Morphine has given a useful explanation of the game:

The only way you score points in this game is by having your VIP driven to the different capture points.
The rest (of the VIP team) are decoys, but the VIP can not drive himself. You don't kill the VIP, only his driver.
One of the best things about this game is the elaborate decoy systems you can setup. Running different patterns, switching VIP drivers when in cover, and having multiple people drive through a capture point at once is a great way to throw off the defenders.

The Gametype
Even Teams - 8+ players recommended
4 Rounds
Round time limit: 3 minutes
Score to win: 20
Goal Arrival Points 1, everything else 0
respawn time: 5 seconds

VIP:

- invulnerable
- immune to headshots
- damage modifier 0%
- speed 25%
- vehicle use: passenger only
- good camo
- waypoint visible to allies

VIP Proximity:

- 10 meters
- damage resistance 100%
- not immune to headshots
- everything else unchanged

VIP Team :

- invulnerable
- immune to headshots
- damage modifier: 0%
- primary weapon magnum
- speed 200%
- vehicle use: full use

Snipers:
- damage modifier: 100%
- primary weapon sniper rifle
- infinite ammo enabled

The Map

An overview of the map.

The sniper base. The gap is large enough to shoot through easily, but to small to crouch-walk through.

The sniper team.

The VIP team's spawn and the great wall that divides Avalanche in two.

The VIP team is ready to go. V-formation!

The VIP is completely invisible to the eyes of a sniper.

An effective way for VIP team to create confusion: scatter.

They've got the wrong guy.

The VIP acts as a great meat-shield. When shot though, he gives gives away who the driver is.

The driver has been found and shot.

The snipers doing a good job holding the VIP team down by killing the drivers as soon as they get near the VIP.

The VIP has been successfully recovered.

The Wheelie Mongoose.

Special thanks to Timeless161 for your great suggestions and everyone else for helping me test.

Links

Map: Half-Cab v2

Gametype: Taxi Me

Updates:

- 12-08-2008 - Removed the extraneous starting point in the VIP spawn.

- 12-09-2008 - v2 - Bubble shields added and new VIP spawn set up.
- 12-11-2008 - v2 - created a version of the sniper base that is a double box.
- 12-14-2008 - v2 - Power ups double-box height above bubble shields as their designators.
- 12-26-2008 - v2 - Thread discussing the sniper base and various aspects of v2.
- 12-27-2008 - v2 - Rebuilt wall out of geomerged bridges.
- 12-28-2008 - v2 - Added mancannons to sniper structure. V2 will not include geomerged boxes.
- 12-29-2008 - v2 - Started preparations for posting v2 (Pictures).
- 12-30-2008 - v2 - Cleaned mancannons and power ups. Started brute shot testing.
- 01-04-2009 - v2 - Started fuel rod gun and sentinel beam testing.
- 01-09-2009 - v2 - Started missel pod testing.
- 01-25-2009 - v2 - Half-Cab v2 posted. See here.