News: NC Turn Around, Did Everyone miss This? - Page 5

Talek Krell · 2011-11-12, 04:26 PM

Originally Posted by Raka Maru

The reason the owner gets to drive AND shoot the main gun in all the tanks has nothing to do with realism. You spend your certs, you don't want to be a taxi, or man the pea shooter.

Speak for yourself, please. A lot of us drivers are right pissed about this change and we've made it clear more than once. If you didn't want to "be a taxi" then why did you spend your points on it anyway? There's a perfectly good lightning.

Xyntech · 2011-11-12, 04:43 PM

Relax. He was talking about the mentality behind the change. Like he said, it's obviously not a realism change.

sylphaen · 2011-11-12, 05:06 PM

I'm relaxed and yet support Talek's comment 100% because I feel the same about the change.

CplVars · 2011-11-12, 05:41 PM

lol@Lightning

Edit: Actually, all I really want to do is be able to pilot a red and black Liberator through the trees for a precision strike again.

Raka Maru · 2011-11-13, 02:42 AM

Originally Posted by Talek Krell

Speak for yourself, please. A lot of us drivers are right pissed about this change and we've made it clear more than once. If you didn't want to "be a taxi" then why did you spend your points on it anyway? There's a perfectly good lightning.

Ok let me rephrase that.

You don't want to be FORCED to be a taxi or STUCK with an alt gun when the player certs a tank. I would gladly turn my main gun over to a competent gunner. Welcome to my tank, I can relax and concentrate on my badass driving now. Tank ownership caters to the owner in this decision to give drivers the main gun.

They can go further with this by giving owner controlled gun assignments. After all, everyone is in the same tin can. They should be able to switch seats (at least guns) when you're safe inside. Specified if the tank owner flags those guns usable. Think trunk space or vehicle use interface as an example of what I'm getting at.

Talek Krell · 2011-11-14, 02:36 AM

Originally Posted by Raka Maru

Ok let me rephrase that.

You're still talking for other people who have gone on record as disagreeing with you, so I'd say you did a pretty poor job of rephrasing that.

Complaining that you certed an MBT and then were FORCED to drive it is like complaining that you ordered a hamburger and then were FORCED to consume beef. There's already a single person tank for people who want to gun and drive simultaneously.

Optional alternate weapon assignments can't realistically be expected to work because they conflict with the fundamental designs for the vehicles, and probably their plans for the secondary weapons, but I'll point that out in the slightly more appropriate thread.