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Old 2004-06-21, 12:44 AM   [Ignore Me] #1
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What about a continent with no Bases?


I just had a thought that maybe a continent without a base would be an interesting idea. Make it one huge battlefield, and maybe leave some towers in.

It wouldnt need to be extraordinarily large, but about as big as a Battle Island would work methinks.

As for benefit? Well that could be tied into CC, like all crappy benefit ideas (nothing in CC has a benefit worth dealing with...cept maybe gates, but we should have those anyway). Maybe the benefit could be more strategic and a warp gate in the middle send you to any other wapr gate you want (probably not any sancs though )

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Old 2004-06-21, 02:17 AM   [Ignore Me] #2
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Actually that'd be cool. Not sure why, but it would be.
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Old 2004-06-21, 02:38 AM   [Ignore Me] #3
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Originally Posted by KiKiNCHiKiN
Actually that'd be cool. Not sure why, but it would be.
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Old 2004-06-23, 10:03 PM   [Ignore Me] #4
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Originally Posted by KiKiNCHiKiN
Actually that'd be cool. Not sure why, but it would be.
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Old 2004-06-23, 10:50 PM   [Ignore Me] #5
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Well the idea is sort of an infantry arena idea. Think PS-Tribes/Halo.

Towers dont have to be fortresses (as if bases are ). What would be interesting is if the devs used this continent as a test bed for trenches, enhanced bunkers, hell even new towers.

If people insist on having vehicles, let air towers spawn them on the roof. Watch towers can be modded to have a garage area for non Tech Plant vehicles to be spawned at.

But make it hell, no frickin roads, no bridges (maybe shallows to compensate). Heck make the water parts like the swampy sections in Hossin.

It doesnt have to be big, in fact it could easily be smaller than TR sanc. Now I will admit the Battle Islands are almost what Im asking for, but I honestly dont see why we need a base everywhere.

For the people who say they need a reason to fight there, well only CEP is an issue with this, so give a cont cap bonus like I said before.

Another issue is populations, I imagine those can be similar to Battle Islands too...
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Old 2004-06-24, 01:02 AM   [Ignore Me] #6
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Actually that'd be cool. Not sure why, but it would be.
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Old 2004-06-24, 06:11 AM   [Ignore Me] #7
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Sounds like alot of fun to me.
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Old 2004-06-21, 09:10 AM   [Ignore Me] #8
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Without bases you lack 3 things. The first is a means to control that warpgate. The second is vehicles to traverse the continent and finally any way of holding territory.

I think it'd be kinda boring personally
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Old 2004-06-21, 10:26 AM   [Ignore Me] #9
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You don't need bases for any of that...Towers could be modded to do all of that...

Or even make it no vehicles aside from ones you bring.
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Old 2004-06-21, 10:57 AM   [Ignore Me] #10
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Originally Posted by Sobekeus
You don't need bases for any of that...Towers could be modded to do all of that...

Or even make it no vehicles aside from ones you bring.
Would you get XP for capping those towers? Because without that, just like CC, few people would go. And if towers take on the properties of bases anyway (adding vehicle terminals, medical terminals, cert terminals), then combat would be exactly the same zerg rush as it is now, just with smaller, exposed facilities.

It's an interesting idea, but you have to specify the tangible player rewards or the "what's in it for me" players won't go. Remember that most players couldn't give crap about strategic concerns and it would be difficult for the devs to commit resources to new islands that depend upon a narrower demographic of players to fill.

So having said that, what do you think would be the personal benefits to players to get them to go?
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Old 2004-06-21, 10:25 PM   [Ignore Me] #11
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Kill XP is better than cap XP unless yer the SL...

Maybe the conquest of the continent should give a big reward, make the entire thing one big cap.

And I think vehicles should be hard to get...aka not being spawned there. Or if they are, non Tech Plant vehicles only...
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Old 2004-06-22, 11:00 AM   [Ignore Me] #12
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I just dont find an open exposed continent where i'm free game to every vehicle out there that appealing, lets face it terrain cover in this game sucks and camo is non existant especialy for us NC guys who've reached the rank of big bird. Not that the other empires are much better.
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Old 2004-06-22, 02:33 PM   [Ignore Me] #13
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Nobody said it has to be open and exposed...it could literally be a tropical version of Ceryshan with Hossin style vegetation...

Maybe even more treed in than that...

Think Jurrasic Park...imagine fighting on that island...
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Old 2004-06-22, 02:45 PM   [Ignore Me] #14
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Can't we have bases on the island?
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Old 2004-06-22, 03:00 PM   [Ignore Me] #15
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Would one base be enough?
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