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.

[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!)

[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 .

[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 .

Reavers are already in game n00b

[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....