Dopplers Defensive Idea(TM):Drop Pod Receivers

Doppler · 2004-03-30, 01:23 PM

The problem occured to me the other day as i was dropping into a hot battle on ishundar. Almost as soon as my pod landed i saw a guy outside repairing his deliverer, i got him but his two gunners smoked my tail good, nothing i could do about it. This got me thinking, i was coming down to helped our besieged defenders at the base. How about installing a sort of covered landing spot for friendly drop pods. THis whould allow owning empire troops to drop into the protected base SOI and shield them from roaming tanks and reavers. You could put it in central core of the building so that a personw hould never be exposed to hostile fire while landing. Personaly i think the mechanism could have its own backup generator so it can be operated even if theres no power to the base.

Perhaps not my clearest essay but what do you folks think?

JakeLogan · 2004-03-30, 02:07 PM

I like it but it won't be put in.

Doppler · 2004-03-30, 02:39 PM

Any particular reason?

ChewyLSB · 2004-03-30, 03:04 PM

I always thought the way drop pods worked was kind of dumb. In my opinion, you should only be able to HART into friendly, un-hacked SOI's.

BigFreak · 2004-03-30, 04:40 PM

It's like...the whole risk element. The manual or...somewhere official always said "Don't drop near roads that enemies may be on, cos that's retarded"...or something like that. Basically, there's a whole big tactical thing in just dropping, and inevitably it's sometimes going to be out of your control, or possible knowlege of there being enemies in the drop zone.

ChewyLSB · 2004-03-30, 05:04 PM

Originally Posted by BigFreak

It's like...the whole risk element. The manual or...somewhere official always said "Don't drop near roads that enemies may be on, cos that's retarded"...or something like that.

Lartnev · 2004-03-30, 05:27 PM

I'm assuming that the reason you can't drop within an SOI is probably because it was buggy and went through the base.

scarpas · 2004-03-30, 06:03 PM

uhh... it wouldnt be worth the time and money... we need the devs to put in other things such as new weapons... weapons/vehices would be a much better thing to put in.

Edit: sorry if that didnt make sence, i just got back from rock climbing and cant think correctly.

Cryptica · 2004-03-30, 06:47 PM

Originally Posted by BigFreak

The manual or...somewhere official always said "Don't drop near roads that enemies may be on, cos that's retarded"...or something like that.

Anyways, I see both points. I like the idea of having a "safe-zone" for HART drops, but I understand BigFreak's point. Maybe with a little tweaking this idea could be helpful.

Kaymon · 2004-03-30, 06:53 PM

Originally Posted by BigFreak

It's like...the whole risk element. The manual or...somewhere official always said "Don't drop near roads that enemies may be on, cos that's retarded.

I only enter the HART in an infiltration suit, and drop far enough off-roads that nobody will catch me.

Doppler · 2004-03-30, 08:13 PM

Ok heres always been my assumption, you cant drop into SOI's because the bases defense gridn whould light you a new one, which is why i think you should be able to drop into a freidnly base, give one more slight tactical advantage to the defenders.

SilverLord · 2004-03-30, 09:25 PM

I think that HART dropping now is really balanced. The only thing I would change is being able to drop closer to bases.

Onizuka-GTO · 2004-03-30, 09:28 PM

No. Make them have a LONGER timer, and deploy them only near or in friendly SOI.

Unlike WH40K Drop-pods (The only other types I know off) which are strictly offensive for purposes like Deep Strike (deploying far behind enemy lines), can hold at leased a platoon of troops, and can also deploy armoured vehicles from orbit, PS drop-pods can't. It's just suppose to be a quick and easy way to bring individuals to the frontline, making them any closer is sucidal for the one person.

Making the timer longer, is much better because when it reache a point you will have a clusters of pods dropping just to help push an offensive, comnig to the frontline from the safety within a friendly SOI.

LimpBIT · 2004-03-30, 10:28 PM

Good idea make like a gated area for drop pods. I could see that put into the game. But wrong timing cause ever since broadcast WG have been put in it has made the HART close to useless. Ive only used it twice since the BWG have been put in.

Onizuka-GTO · 2004-03-30, 10:53 PM

That's true, and not to mention you have the "Instant Action" features too. It's a bit of a fumble now.

Wonder hows the dev going to sort this out?