Oh...my..bejesus...

[NightWalker XI]

Wow I jsut noticed this bit in the SmokeJumper interview, obviously it doesn't guarantee anythign but still...

Has planetside given thought to a mobile air base?

Yes.

:eek: :D :D

[Onizuka]

Given thought doesnt mean squat. Ive given thought to bying a monkey but did I do it......no.

Though it would be awfully cool: Reavers and Liberators flying and docking in the air base; the people walking around and when they go to a balcony they would have a nice view of part of the continent.

That would be so cool

[NightWalker XI]

Hmm...hundreds of people hot dropping from a big base...yeah....

[Dharkbayne]

Zone crash cuz right when it goes up EVERYONE GOES THERE

[beavis88]

I'd like to see in-air "refueling" (== reloading ammo). How cool would it be to "dock" mid-air with a galaxy or what have you, and get your trunk filled up with more rockets/bullets/etc? Possibly even repairs...

[Dharkbayne]

Or everyone preparing for an assault then a bunch of libs and reavers zoom over the base and drop a bunch of bombs and run everyone off the edges of the base :)

[David]

That in-air docking sounds like a great idea. I cant count the times, back when I was a pilot, that my Reaver ran out of ammo. It's so tedious to reload.

The addition of supply vehicles would also be good because you can finally give the support classes a way to gain XP.

For however long a supply vehicle is in the SOI the vehicle owner gets a certain amount of XP. Like the ANT, it's not much but added up you're talking about some serious bonuses. The modifier for this XP would of course be how many people he reloads. The XP for this is only given after a base capture. This will prevent expoiting the technique because you have to go through a tremendous amount of work to get it. (But the reward would be sweet!) :D

[Warborn]

They hinted at Air Pads automatically rearming and repairing air vehicles back in Beta, when they changed some of the base functions. They hinted at the possibility of Amp Stations being able to give vehicles a non-regenerating shield (think Star Trek) also.

[Streamline]

Non-regenerating shields sounds dumb. I mean why not just give the vehicle more armor. The thing that makes shields work in a game is the shield/energy managment. If they don't regenerate that its no different from armor. Maybe they got some way of incorperating it that i don't see. But at first hand it sounds a little rediculous

[�io]

Originally posted by Warborn
They hinted at Air Pads automatically rearming and repairing air vehicles back in Beta, when they changed some of the base functions.

Yeah i used to think that would be sweet but with the reavers and liberators on the way it's a :nono:.

[Yuyi]

Originally posted by �io
Yeah i used to think that would be sweet but with the reavers and liberators on the way it's a :nono:.

Reavers are already in game n00b :p

[BUGGER]

I think it would be kool to have a refueling aircraft, like em big havocs or whatever they are calld that uses the hose to give gas or something to a jumbo jet or something. just instead it gives ammo.

[r3d]

All they really need is some sort of repair pad, if youre not an engy, youre fuxx0rd

[EarlyDawn]

They said that dropship centers will enable rearm/refuel when landing on the base pads as a post-contention feature.

I'm looking forward to that, will make Air towers more useful.

[�io]

Reavers with unlimited ammo and engy free repairs.... :scared:

[delerium]

I dunno cant wait for this buggy and see how they take down those annoying reavers :D :D

[NeoTassadar]

Sounds like inviting 'nade spamming to me. Like kids halking lugies off a skyscraper.
Would be cool, though.:D

[Hellsfire123]

There was a really big post on this during beta.

When the forums closed we has it argued down to 6 guns(4 Phalnax turrets on the corners, a large vanguard like cannon on the bottom, and a flax cannon on top).

Was going to be about the size of a base, include spawn tubes and airpads(misquito only).

Would be amazingly slow while active and fairly fast (little slower then a Galaxy) while in "travle" mode. The captain would be cr5, and only be able to steer using waypoints(no manuveering).

Transport to the craft would require a galaxy or other air vehical to drop off of, and then a matrix to the vehical to spawn there.

There was also some talk of a power limit(1 hr - 2hr) with a refuel option of an ant drop.

[Jaged]

:drools:

[MilitantB0B]

Originally posted by Hellsfire123
There was a really big post on this during beta.

When the forums closed we has it argued down to 6 guns(4 Phalnax turrets on the corners, a large vanguard like cannon on the bottom, and a flax cannon on top).

Was going to be about the size of a base, include spawn tubes and airpads(misquito only).

Would be amazingly slow while active and fairly fast (little slower then a Galaxy) while in "travle" mode. The captain would be cr5, and only be able to steer using waypoints(no manuveering).

Transport to the craft would require a galaxy or other air vehical to drop off of, and then a matrix to the vehical to spawn there.

There was also some talk of a power limit(1 hr - 2hr) with a refuel option of an ant drop.
Sweet day in the morning! I MUST REACH CR5 JUST ON THE OFF CHANCE THEY IMPLIMENT THAT!!!!

[NeoTassadar]

Ha, hover it above a huge battle, then let it run out of power, grab a Skeeter, watch it crush everyone.
Edit: Speculation is back! I can post in game discussion again!:D

[MilitantB0B]

lol, I wonder if you could take it over like a base? Would be kinda cool to see a gal drop onto a one of theese things to steal it. Would also be cool to see 2 of those thing fighting it out amongst themselves, kinda like a war between to ships on the high seas. Just get em close enough for people to jump across. :D

[NeoTassadar]

Bah, of course you could hack it, but the question would be if it's like a base or like a vehicle. And do they take damage? And if they do, what kind of armor do they have, and what's the respawn time on the thing? :eek:

[MilitantB0B]

So.. many... questions...

Man that thing would rock. I know that thing probably will not happen, but I think they need to implement some things to make high CR more valuable, a new, commander only vehichles would be right up that alley.

[NeoTassadar]

Ah, speculation. Brings back memories of before open beta.
*stares off into space*
Anyway, yeah, I can't get it right now, so speculation is all I can contribute here. Never read the original thread for this, at least I don't remember it. If Warborn comes around, he'll give some good (but probably opposite of mine) insights into balancing this monster.

Originally posted by Hellsfire123
There was a really big post on this during beta.

When the forums closed we has it argued down to 6 guns(4 Phalnax turrets on the corners, a large vanguard like cannon on the bottom, and a flax cannon on top).

Was going to be about the size of a base, include spawn tubes and airpads(misquito only).

Would be amazingly slow while active and fairly fast (little slower then a Galaxy) while in "travle" mode. The captain would be cr5, and only be able to steer using waypoints(no manuveering).

Transport to the craft would require a galaxy or other air vehical to drop off of, and then a matrix to the vehical to spawn there.

There was also some talk of a power limit(1 hr - 2hr) with a refuel option of an ant drop.
That sounds a little skimpy for a base's weapons load. But since lots of people could be on there, it might be reasonable. And I assume that "size of a base" is sans the tunnels; like to the outer walls base size, right? Now, there would kinda have to be Galaxy landing pads. Not necessarily resupply, but somewhere where they could land keep their location in relation to the "ground" when the base moves.

[DarkDragon00]

mmmmmmMMmmMmM its yummy. Cr5 for it since its so strong wouldnt be too bad. Or maybe make it outfit leaders only, but then again there are some asshole leaders out there... like Halo14 on Markov!

[MilitantB0B]

Originally posted by DarkDragon00
mmmmmmMMmmMmM its yummy. Cr5 for it since its so strong wouldnt be too bad. Or maybe make it outfit leaders only, but then again there are some asshole leaders out there... like Halo14 on Markov!
No! If that was the case, every idiot would start a 10 man outfit as soon as he got into the game, I know I would. =)

[beavis88]

Good lord that would be sick, sick, sick. :eek:

[Masurao]

Well it could only be for outfits with like more then 50 people and putfit leader is CR5. Cause if its made so any CR5 and get one then we'd have a sky sull of those things, so many you could just walk from one to the other =\