Support MAX?

[SniperDude]

I was thinking. Wouldn't it be cool if there was a support MAX. Like CE or Adv Med. Just load up with an ass load of ACEs and Med juice and engy juice and go to town. Having 650 armor still and using the 1, 2, and 3 keys to switch between the three (if the pilot has them all). They really wouldn't really have any defence for themselves but a MAX suit full of ACEs could hook up a tower or CY with a quickness, not to mention a mobile repair / heal post sort of.

Discuss

[_-Gunslinger-_]

Lets give maxes amp station benifits and TR maxes belt fed ammo first, then add a support max.

[Jekz]

I'd like them to be faster and more mobile than regular ones, for lack of defense.

[Baneblade]

My problem with the current MAXes is they should have been what the BFRs will be from the start.

Anyway, I think the speed of them is fine, but they need a little more defenses or, more utility. This would go a long way to doing that.

Maybe though, instead of a whole new MAX, or even in addition to it, give all the current MAXes a utility slot. Most would just put in a BANK, but don't allow them to use anything on itself. So MAXes would still require teamwork...cept for the REK ones.

[Cauldron Borne]

no. no REKs at least. If you give a MAX a rek, the nyou defeat the purpose of every other armor class. period.

I'd say no to all of these, actually. MAXes are SUPOSED to be specialized COMBAT armors. they were INTENTIONALLY given only one function: Combat. If you give them support roles, especially a REK, what point to the other armors? Cloakers? screw that, 650 armor makes up for invisibility any day. AV? hell, i'll just pund the shit outta you with my MAX, and have my three support MAXes healing me the whole time. See what I mean?

[oddfish]

Support MAX?


no.

[DropShipEdward]

how about just a glue gun then? fix the gen and all that good stuff?

[ORANGE]

I'd be fun for about 10 minutes....kinda like the BI's

[Death909]

Its a good idea but who's going to sit in a support max all day when they can get in a real max? and actually go kill people instead of healing/repairing friendlies and scaring newbie cloackers?

[oddfish]

Its a good idea but who's going to sit in a support max all day when they can get in a real max? and actually go kill people instead of healing/repairing friendlies and scaring newbie cloackers?

no, it's not a good idea. it's a terrible idea. MAX units are for combat only. They have no business toting support equipment. The reason you have REXO with a glue gun is to repair MAX's.. no MAX with a glue gun. The purpose of the MAX is to do damage. That's its job.

[Cauldron Borne]

agreed.

[SniperDude]

Just an idea folks, didn't meant to offend anyone.

[oddfish]

Just an idea folks, didn't meant to offend anyone.


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[SniperDude]

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[Cauldron Borne]

The guys on PSU have a habit of shutting down what we consider bad ideas fast and hard, lest said ideas get to the devs and fuck up the game (it's happened before). Thus do I explain away our rudeness on this matter.

[Baneblade]

The guys on PSU have a habit of shutting down what we consider bad ideas fast and hard, lest said ideas get to the devs and fuck up the game (it's happened before). Thus do I explain away our rudeness on this matter.
Too bad that didn't happen with CC.

[Lonehunter]

no. no REKs at least. If you give a MAX a rek, the nyou defeat the purpose of every other armor class. period.

I'd say no to all of these, actually. MAXes are SUPOSED to be specialized COMBAT armors. they were INTENTIONALLY given only one function: Combat. If you give them support roles, especially a REK, what point to the other armors? Cloakers? screw that, 650 armor makes up for invisibility any day. AV? hell, i'll just pund the shit outta you with my MAX, and have my three support MAXes healing me the whole time. See what I mean?
Exactly. Although I think it would be interesting to see how a FULL support MAX would work. Like if it had the abilities of Adv med, engineering, and hacking. But had NO weapons what so ever.

[Warborn]

The guys on PSU have a habit of shutting down what we consider bad ideas fast and hard, lest said ideas get to the devs and fuck up the game (it's happened before). Thus do I explain away our rudeness on this matter.

Believe it or not, but developers are capable of making decisions on their own. I don't know what makes people think the devs are at the whim of the community, because they aren't. Sometimes people have a good idea, or sometimes their gripes reflect an actual problem with the game. In those cases the actions of the devs line up with what people may have said in the past, but that doesn't mean the developers didn't actually think about it themselves. Shitty ideas won't make it into the game because they're shitty ideas. How long they survive on a secondary forum like this is not an issue.

[Baneblade]

If shitty ideas don't make it into the game, how do you explain 99% of the mmo market?

[Lartnev]

:huh:

99% of the MMO market?

[Cauldron Borne]

You would be wrong, WarBorn. While the Devs ARE capable of making their own decisions, if they, like any business, want to make it, they have to follow the golden rule: The customer is always right. If they sensible (for the most part) people on PSU SAY that an idea is stupid, then it likely is, no matter how the Devs try to hide it. CC is a case in point. Quite a few people here opposed some of the CC stuff the DAY it came out. They opposed the flail, the all too powerful hand-held flail, and how the stuff that needed fixing (*cough Router *cough) should be fixed. we find today that we were right. Mebbe the Devs should listen? yeah...

[Lonehunter]

First off, what's wrong with the Router? Second, about the flails. Prior to CC everyone was begging for artilery and how the devs are stupid for not adding it, then it goes in the game, and not one person bitches about anything more then the flail. Lastly, I very rarely see one person speek positivly about the devs. So somone thinks a few vehicles or weapons were screwed up, so they make it known to everyone. Few people realize that the people they bitch about MADE THIS GAME, the game wich many are so devoted to and spend money on.

[Baneblade]

:huh:

99% of the MMO market?
Could be 98%.