I'm new to Gen so have been sticking with what I know best, but I see what you mean and understand. It will give me the incentive to try other classes a lot more for some maps, although deep down Q1 has always been my first love. (after Helen, my Banjo playing northumbrian fishermans daughter, I better say, in case she reads this)    

Random class is a blast!

The last beta I used was .99a. Also I undrstand the balance problem, but the difference between an unbalanced game and an unskilled player is very thin. If you were to make all classes have the original phisics (speed, armor, damage, jumping, etc.) that would definitally lean more towards skill based combat insted of ballanced combat. The kind of thing you would have SP. Or MP if you wanted to attract hardcore gamers. Also the only reason doom walked on water was because at the time there was no such thing as swimming in first person shooters. And he couldn't look up or down because of the game not being 3D as everyone knows it is just 8 views around of a 2D creature. If you were to use a source port that had freelook you would notice if you look down from a ledge at enemies they were incredible at backbends and warping their body's shape.

Also jumping wasn't possible at the time either.

Also, what is speed and damage measured in? In units/sec and points respectively. Sure, you can toss all this together in one mod, but who says the values are all on the same scale? For damage it may seem obvious, since we're talking percentile values here, but if you take the armor systems in consideration, things get complicated. Speed, size and distance all seem different in the games, and using exact translations (see mapping) destroys the game. Entirely.

But I think I can speak for all of us, when I say we're glad to have you back Mojo! I haven't read a post such as the above in a long time, and frankly, I'd started to miss it.

Well if we were gonna make it truly accurate to the originals, Strogg most certainly would NOT be helpless. I have two words for you: Power. Shield.

OOH!! I knew something was missing from the strogger!! Power Armor (or the screen)!!!
Yes! Definitely go for it

O.o buhWHAAA? As if strogg can't get enough armor as-is!

Sounds like fun though

Oh, and pho: a hasted doomer is about the speed the player was in doom.

Only problem is, q3 handles gravity different, in doom you kinda stuck to the floor. It's easiest to point out in the 2fort remake in the ctf mappack. a flag dropped on the stairs is a pain in the ASS for a hasted doomer to grab at full-tilt. But that's a minor consideration. Doom moving at his oldschool speed would be EVIL, and I don't know how/if that would kill gameplay.