Towers should be worth something! GRRR!

VecktorCorpus · 2003-07-09, 11:14 PM

They NEED to make tower caps worth some xp shit I'd be happy if they are worth only 100xp for grabbing it back MUCH BETTER THEN ZERO after 3 hours trying to capture the damn thing. The enemy can endlessly run out of because it can't be destroyed and will never run out of NTUs.

That should be worth something, shit you don't even have an option of disabling the gen BECAUSE IT has none, sure it has no vehicles but that still doesn't make it enough of a flaw to make it worth nothing for grabbing. DAMN you get xp for blowing up an AMS at least from the poor suckers that don't get away in time.

I'm suprised no one has fixed this by now, GAH!

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Navaron · 2003-07-09, 11:22 PM

So whats to stop me and some vs or nc scum from trading a tower in the middle of no where all night till we're level 20?

1024 · 2003-07-10, 12:47 AM

Originally posted by {BOHICA}Navaron
So whats to stop me and some vs or nc scum from trading a tower in the middle of no where all night till we're level 20?

this is why...

Originally posted by VecktorCorpus
no one has fixed this by now, GAH!

AztecWarrior · 2003-07-10, 12:48 AM

Towers are the nagging b**ches of the battlefield: hard to take, and if you ignore them, they'll regroup and take your base.

Doppler · 2003-07-10, 01:53 AM

The answer is not to give xp for defending towers. The answer is to give xp bonuses for defense, there are many otpions for this, from giving bonuses for time spent in a friendly SOI where combat is occuring to giving added exp for kills within a friendly SOI since most towers are covered by one SOI or another this whould fix the problem while preventing hopefully any exploits that could come from it.

ccarlin8 · 2003-07-10, 02:09 AM

What's to stop you from trading the tower all night? Well, what's to stop you and another squad from trading a base all night or killing each other off all night for xp?

It'd take for fucking ever to hit BR20 and it's boring as all hell. At least in my opinion it is. I wouldn't sit and trade a tower all night just like I wouldn't sit and trade an empty base all night. But they'd have to make tower caps like base caps, only smaller.

If they made tower caps like base caps and did xp based on the action in the tower's SOI or whatever, and did a fraction of what a base cap is, perhaps max 1000 to 1500 and a 5 minute hold time then that would be alright. I like tower fights just for the fights though. I need no reward except the heap of bodies I create

What I want to see is some sort of purpose for conlocks. XP, a sign at the warpgate that says TR owned you! or whatever, I don't care, just something besides a red colored cont.

VecktorCorpus · 2003-07-10, 02:59 AM

Think people think...

TheAngelOfWar · 2003-07-10, 04:06 AM

Originally posted by ccarlin8
What's to stop you from trading the tower all night? Well, what's to stop you and another squad from trading a base all night or killing each other off all night for xp?

a 15 minute timer

Doppler · 2003-07-10, 04:43 AM

^ What they said ^

NightWalker XI · 2003-07-10, 05:37 AM

In case you did not know the devs have decided to put NTU silos in towers too and a 5 minute timer on captures, dunno about EXP tho

Celedon · 2003-07-10, 10:27 AM

Personally, I think towers should stay the way they are. They're an entirely different battle than cities. Fast, furious, right to the point. The tide changes instantly as soon as someone hacks the tower, and if there is any kind of support for the hacker and a close AMS the battle is won. Defenders generally get hammered as soon as they leave the tower, so they have to hunker in making them very easy nade targets. Throw in hot drops on the roof for above entries, and I think tower fights are always some of the best times.

As for xp, I don't really have a problem with not getting any because you it's a part of the base capture. If you ignore the towers, it's real tough to take a base. I do think defense xp needs to be added though.

I just can't imagine a 5 minute timer on towers, and NTU's. Will they get to keep spawning during the 5 minutes? No tower will ever get taken until it runs out of NTU's. What a pain in the A**. Every tower fight would be all night, and they would eventually get ignored, because getting an AMS is buttloads easier than making endless ANT runs. I think some changes to the game are in order, but personally I'm a fan of the way the towers work.

The complaint about the 5 min timer seems to be that they get taken back so quickly. My answer to that, at least from a TR's point of view, is we need to have F****** guard posted at the towers near the cities we're sieging.

End of Tirade.

Tryndamere · 2003-07-10, 12:10 PM

This change will make bases easier to defend.

That = good.

Sleepwalker · 2003-07-10, 02:03 PM

Originally posted by ccarlin8

What I want to see is some sort of purpose for conlocks. XP, a sign at the warpgate that says TR owned you! or whatever, I don't care, just something besides a red colored cont. [/B]

dude, TOTALLY.
or perhaps, all map views will have
TEE ARR PWND=J00 spraypainted on the continent.

BUGGER · 2003-07-10, 02:04 PM

easyer=gay, hard=fun + more xp

SumYungGui · 2003-07-10, 02:48 PM

towers as they stand are worth alot. they're worth about as much exp as you'll get capping the base right next to it because you have all of the advantages where as somebody stupid enough to try defense from within a base under the current setup has nothing but disadvantages.

towers should be a helper for an offensive action, not be an offensive force totally in and of themselves.