Droppods/Warp Gates

[Noxx]

In your article you said the the big warp gates take you to other gates. You also said that the drop pods take you up and back down via HART. Could you explain the differences between these two systems?

[Hamma]

The hart is simply the vehicle that carries the drop pods. Its what you ride to orbit, and drop from (one person in each pod, no vehicles) once in orbit the HART releases the drop pods, then returns to base to pick up another round of people.

The Warp Gates do all indeed lead to other warpgates. As you can see on the <A href="http://www.planetside-universe.com/image.php?picid=20174&filetype=jpg" target="_blank">map</a> I posted the TR warpgate leads to a warpgate on teh TR santuary, the Searhus Warpgate leads to a warpgate on the Searhus continent..

Hope I answered your Q.. let me know if im way off

[Mold]

what kind of warning do you get for incoming ppl in droppods and wargates. Would you get to see the drop pod come outa the sky, make a lot of noise, show up on the map, or something like that....or does it just apear outa nowhere. Just wondering if you could see it land in the near forest so that ppl wouldnt just suprise you like that.
Also do the ppl just apear at the other end of a warpgate without warning or is there a sound/light show a few seconds before they come.

[Hamma]

THe drop pod floats down from the sky, its rather small but you can see it come down. I actually saw one or two while i was defending.

As for warp gates.. you just see them come out - but there is a huge sphere where you cannot fire weapons - so even if there is warning theres not much you can do about it. It cant really be used as a choke point

[BLuE_ZeRO]

Can the drop pods land on people or do they land in a designated place? Would be kind of funny to see a drop pod fall in the middle of a battle taking out a couple people.

[Hamma]

That I dont know,heheh there were not enough people for me to even begin to guess where someone was standing. You just pick a location on the map.. it can be anywhere except inside a SOI (sphere of influence) which is around bases

[BLuE_ZeRO]

interesting... Watch out for my r337 pod falling skillz.

[Zatrais]

can you fire into the warpgates? =)

[Tobias]

Fear my leet drop pod camping skillz.

[BLuE_ZeRO]

Land the pod and then set up turrets around it. You can have your Pod base in the middle of nowhere.

[Hamma]

Originally posted by Zatrais
can you fire into the warpgates? =)

I thought about that on the flight home, but I do not know. I would assume no

[Jinxmasta]

Does the drop pod disappear once you have left it?

[Hamma]

Eventually yea

[BLuE_ZeRO]

how eventually?

[Hamma]

didnt notice, I just jumped out and ran off. But is suspect it probably dissapears after a minute or so.. would not be good to have a ton of drop pods scattered about the terrain