Okay.. What drains NTUs

[Jarlo]

Yeah when defending a base I always spam broadcast a few times with -- spawn at the AMS, spawning at the bases uses NTU! This works well if you place the AMS near the vehicle pad, so it saves time too 8)

[Agathon]

Hello,

Thanks,

Good point Jarlo, and I only spawned in the basement before when the cc was in the basement and under attack. I really hadn't thought of it from the NTU angle, and now I will always spawn in the courtyard if there is an AMS available, even if the cc is hacked. This makes total sense and is a good observation!

Yes, I had forgotten the generator! OOPS!!

Cool, so at least we have a firm list to give out...

Thanks,

[1024]

Originally posted by BUGGER33
when i used the bathroom, i accidently put the base to nuetral.....

You don't know how many tiems i've had to hold it until an ANT got to the base. :gonnaexplode:

[Protst Patrotsm]

Spawning in an AMS is pointless if you can do it in a facil. Facil respawn times are much shorter and using NTU's is good cause the ANT needs to be used more. When tower start using NTU's i'm going to have a heart-attack and die. it'll just be too good to handle.

[Pilgrim]

LOL Yeah us dedicated ANT runners love people who drain bad!

So here are my top anger thingies with other people.

HMM

1) We hack, jag-off noob runs around shooting every terminal making it so no new equipment can be grabbed (I love spawning at an AMS hacking a Term at a base we're holding and putting on my MAX pants!)

2) Same Jag-off noob viciously attacks the generator, turning off all the terms at once!

3) Idiots shooting wall turrets after a hack!

4) 15 people standing around a destroyed vehicle term at an enemy base spamming "Repair our vehicle facility!"

Here's how that conversation goes...

Jag-off: Repair our vehicle facility pilgrim!!!!!!!!
Pilgrim: Can't not our base
Jag-off: It's ok I have Adv hacking
Pilgrim: Doesn't matter, I can't fix it till the hack goes.
Jag-off: No you don't understand I have ADV HACKING!!!!!!
Pilgrim: SO do I... sigh let me proove this to you (goes, hacks the term, then pulls out super-soaker nothing happens)
Pilgrim: See... Can't do.
Jag-off: So why did you destroy the Vehicle term!!!?!??!
Pilgrim: Sigh... I didn't, I don't actually cary a gun when I'm in support pants!
Jag-off: LIAR< you die now! (I die then)
(short spawn time later, after hack go back and repair the vehicle term... and all the turrets, so the base doesn't drain faster then a keg at a frat party)
Jag-off: About time you fixxed that... jerk.
Pilgrim: Ok, have fun flying your reaver, you need repair land near me and I'll fix you.
Jag-off: Yeah!

Now it may seem silly but I swear that I've had this happen at least once a night durring a base cap... People can really suck sometimes!

[Protst Patrotsm]

Originally posted by Hunter-R
Jag-off: It's ok I have Adv hacking
Pilgrim: Doesn't matter, I can't fix it till the hack goes.
Jag-off: No you don't understand I have ADV HACKING!!!!!!
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3.3 hilarious

[Jarlo]

LMAO faster than a keg at a frat party, that was funny.

[BUGGER]

[Rorian]

If you just reconstruct in a facility spawntube but its not a result of dying, does that use NTUs?

Does deconstructing in a base spawntube replenish its NTUs?

Unless it was changed recently I suspect spawning Vehicles does not use appreciable NTU. I rember in Beta when folks were testing the functionality of Neutral out of lattice hacks, they tried to drive base neutral by Hacking the terms and mass spawning of vehicles had no appreciable effect (of course this could be because it was a hacked Term....).

[Hamma]

There was a thread about this on the OF, but I cant seem to find it

[Jarlo]

Hamma I have it linked to the OF post back on page 1.

I swear I think you have my posts on /ignore!

[Agathon]

Hello,

Rorian's question is a good one. Has anyone tested it? Respawning would be nice if it didn't. For example, I have often thought in a situation where you have an AMS in the CY and a base that has been hacked by the enemy, it would be nice to gear up at the AMS and deconstruct at it. Then you spawn downstairs fully equipped and ready to run to the nearby basement CC. If this didn't take NTU's, it would be a very good tactic for folks to use!

8-)

[Jarlo]

Spawning at a base uses NTU.. I'm willing to bet this includes spawning after deconstruction.

[Protst Patrotsm]

If that were true I'd just re-construct myself a billion times in a base to drain NTU's, then bust out wif my ANT!

[Hamma]

My bad, I missed it