Vehicle bombs

[Kikinchikin]

I personally like the idea on the whole. When I went through my infiltrator phase, I sure did like laying heavy mines are parked vehicles and watching em go boom. I think PS would be great if it had mines like the ones in James Bond- Goldeneye for the N64. Remote mines, timed mines and we already have proxy mines. But mines you could throw even on infantry would be sweet.

[Majik]

Originally Posted by ZjinPS

If my sarcasmism isn't even more apparent to you then you apparently are either :

a) a young and naive person
b) very insensitive and lacking any social skills.

If those are my only choices I take B.
And if the devs implement 2 large bases in the center of a continent and tell me I can take them out by crashing into them with a galaxy, guess what my next cert is.
Frankly I am sick and tired of people trying to make eveything politically correct. Leave your RL country and religion beliefs at the warpgate, cause I will blow the other empires up with any means supplied to me while I play this GAME.<<<note the last word it's the important one

[Dharkbayne]

Originally Posted by BIGTROJANMAN

Sorry i forgot to put abreveation pionts in U.S. Soldiers

EDIT BUTTON.

[Fenrys]

Originally Posted by Dharkbayne

suicide bombing is different from tanks/planes, suicide bombs are cowardly, and used to injure CIVILIANS.

Thousands of B-17's filled with millions of incendiary bombs raised German cities to the ground, killing just about every civilian in them.

Before the white man hunted Native Americans to near extiction, they would mow them down in droves using grapeshot fired from cannons. Against a guy with a spear and maybe a bow, is this not cowardly?

In war, people die. It would seem the only time you take offense to it is when its your own people dieing. I'm not condoning RL bombings, but generals have been using suicide troops for 1,000's of years, and the practice is described in detail in Sun Tsu's The Art of War (making it literaly, "The oldest trick in the book." since TAoW is the oldest military treatise in existance). The idea of a suicide bomber is a tool, and like all tools it can be used for good or or evil.
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[SandTrout]

The essence of a suisside soldier is that they have no fear of death b/c they are going to die regardless. This lack of fear lets them take risks that a normal soldier would consider compleatly insane. On the counter, this lack of causion means that reletively few suiside bombers will reach their targets on a battlefield(Most kamakazis were shot down before reaching their target). This does not apply, however, to attacking civilians who are not actively seeking to kill a target as soldiers are.

From a purely intelectual veiwpoint, the suiside bombings in Isreal and the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. have a higher Kill-to-death ratio than raids by gunmen. Even if the planes in 9/11 had been shot down before reaching their targets, there would still have been many more passenger deaths than terrorist deaths.

Again, this is a purely intelectual view and does not condone the use of suiside soldiers.

Even though suiside soldier may be effecive IRL, there would be no difference in Planetside other than the power of the blast b/c the player respawns soon after the avatar is killed. If you had only one life, would you go rushing into the pounder spam down a tower hallway?

[worldvengence]

Trying to get back on track: I would like to see a like boomer or Mine that was a jammer....have a larger radius than the grenade....also it would be nice if there was a suicide button, for those times i get stuck in a hole in ishundar with no way except to recall and redrop which is annoying (because the sides of the hole are too steep to walk out of)

[SandTrout]

They need a suiside botton with a 5-second delay because it's just annoying to have to recall an drop (especialy if the continent is locked.)