Things that make you go hmmmmmm

Doppler · 2003-10-12, 04:43 PM

The questions about planetside thread

Why put a door on a spawn tube and then make it transparent?

Why does an ams exploding have almost as big a kill zone as an orb strike.

Why do most of the vehicles in the game sound like diesels even though they've got to be electric/nano powered?

Why do building walls ruin command uplink signal but mosq radar penetrates em just fiine.

Why cant i get armor made out of what they make the LLU casing out of.

Why does max run not show up on audio amp (itermitant issue)

How is it any spawn tube anywhere on the planet can propduce energy ammo for a respawning vanu, but it's not common pool.

Why can these nanites that can prefab whole vehicles not figure out how to duplicate enemy vehicle ammo either.

Why does a flying one man combat vehicle have more armor then a ground based one man combat vehicle.

How is it we've gone to space but havnt figured out how to give every soldier GPS co-ordinate maps.

Why does command chat only work for those on the same rank as you?

Heh any other ideas? Oh please lets stay away from weapons balance issues.

bryan25 · 2003-10-12, 04:55 PM

Some of your questions i think your confused about.

Some of them are bugs and alot of them will never be answered.

If u wanted a TRUE story line and stuff get an RPG.

Happy lil Elf · 2003-10-12, 05:00 PM

I don't see him metion story line anywhere, Bryan. I see him making a few good points. I've always thought you should be able to see all friendlies on the cont map, hell even the global map if you're zoomed in far enough. It would help immensely with seeing where you may be needed the most.

Cauldron Borne · 2003-10-12, 05:58 PM

Yeah, I've never understood why you need to be a commander to see friendlies. Or how 'bout why tens of thousands of years of human civilization still hasn't developed a car (ANT) that goes faster than 45 kph (or less than 30 mph), but a human being can run, without serge, at a speed of 26 kph, approx. (infiltrator)

Indecisive · 2003-10-12, 08:02 PM

Ant = bumped up to like 60 with balance patch.

IronWolf · 2003-10-12, 08:13 PM

Whats stopping other empires from HARTing into your sanc? shoudent there be Anti space silos or something? and even if they had those why cant you OS into a sanc, its not like there is anything to stop you

Katanaboy · 2003-10-12, 11:22 PM

Why does a MAX encased in what looks to be hundreds of pounds of armor take more damage from a 10 foot drop than a lightly clothed person falling 50 feet?

How can a TR max shoot spikes into the ground and have his gun magically fire twice as fast?

(Pre-Balance-Patch) How can a hundred ton tank brake from full speed to zero in 0.00001 seconds?

Are all NC max users left-handed?

Happy lil Elf · 2003-10-12, 11:27 PM

I've always thought that locking a cont should shut down the warpgates and force people to HART in instead of the other way around. I also think it'd be a great idea to notify the owners of the continent as soon as an enemy enters the SOI of any base on a locked continent. As it stands now there's no strategic reason to lock a cont. It gets you nothing and the enemy can just roll through a warpgate with an entire invasion force.

00AgentDuck · 2003-10-13, 12:03 AM

How is it that it takes 4 phoenix rockets to kill an infantry in agile while a sniper can shoot him twice and kill him?

Why is it that out of thousands of people, they all have the same few faces?

How is it that air vechicle sometimes evaporate with you inside of it when you get to close to a vechcile creation pad?

How is it that they have so many vechicles in those creation pads underground? And so many different types? And why is it that you can only access some of them when you have a tech plant?

If suddenly everyone in the game made a peace treaty with the other empires, what would happen, and what would the devs do about it?

Veteran · 2003-10-13, 01:39 AM

The answers mostly stem from game balance, limitations of modern home PCs, oversights by the devs and anti-cheating countermeasures.

Doppler · 2003-10-13, 11:55 PM

Veteran we are asking these questions rhetoricly, if not i whould have titled the thread. Veteran please give an obvious general as possible answer to my rhetorical question.

Doppler · 2003-10-13, 11:56 PM

Why do these spawn tubes that are so cruical not have complicated devices called Uninteruptable Power Supplies.

BUGGER�GHO�T · 2003-10-14, 01:02 AM

Why do all the bugs that been claimed fixed still appear.

Why do the sancs dont have the shield genorator things?

Why can you droppod into your sanc but not the other empires?

Why is it realy seen the enemy in the sanctuary (i got pic of a vanu and reaver in the tr sanc)

ZionsFire · 2003-10-14, 04:34 AM

Originally Posted by 00AgentDuck

How is it that it takes 4 phoenix rockets to kill an infantry in agile while a sniper can shoot him twice and kill him?

Why is it that out of thousands of people, they all have the same few faces?

How is it that air vechicle sometimes evaporate with you inside of it when you get to close to a vechcile creation pad?

How is it that they have so many vechicles in those creation pads underground? And so many different types? And why is it that you can only access some of them when you have a tech plant?

If suddenly everyone in the game made a peace treaty with the other empires, what would happen, and what would the devs do about it?

Duck, these are not very good questions but...

#1- The phoenix is an AV weapon

#2- You want your computer drawing new faces everytime?

#3- Message in chat box "Warning your vehicle is to close to the pad it will deconstruct in 10 seconds."

#4- Who said vehicles were stored underground? So you want just one type of vehicle? Balance.

#5- This will never happen because of the "leet" xp whores.

Flammey · 2003-10-14, 07:32 AM

Actually, the reason an AMS expoldes like it does is because it's so full of all the energy it requires to respawn people, that when it gets destroyed a chain reaction happens, causing the explosion it does.

AND hey, don't knock that explosion. I got a 12 man kill the other day because of that.