Attrition

Icenine · 2004-01-07, 07:12 PM

I have an idea that I think might improve Planetside. attrition. I think that spwning should take NTU. This would force players to be more efficient if they want to be successful. To successfully assault a base they would have to work together and make sure they had enough NTU to respawn.

MuNsTeR · 2004-01-07, 07:17 PM

did it used to?i thought it did

Rbstr · 2004-01-07, 07:21 PM

they took it out due to zergs, it would be a bad idea to make defending harder.

worldvengence · 2004-01-07, 07:39 PM

used to have to ant all the time....was a pain in the royal @$$

Rayder · 2004-01-07, 09:51 PM

I thought this was a "destroyable wall" thread.

Incompetent · 2004-01-07, 09:52 PM

It used to be in, it sucked, they took it out, end of story.

321 · 2004-01-07, 09:54 PM

Originally Posted by Mr Monkey

did it used to?i thought it did

Yeah it used to but it was taken out a while back.

Seer · 2004-01-07, 10:03 PM

/b Okay, all of you, we're at 30% and there are no ants--we need to conserve our resources. Please spawn at the courtyard ams for the love of god.

*sound of everyone laughing at me*

No...I don't think I want that to go back in.

Zompton · 2004-01-07, 10:12 PM

I remember back then, when all bases went nuetral all the time, lol that sucked!

Doppler · 2004-01-08, 01:17 AM

See the problem with you idea is the towers dont track ntu consumption, so the onely people who get fucked up the poop shoot are the defenders, i dont want to see it go back to that, I like these bigger several hour long slug fests, even if i think the bases are just giant coffins for the defenders.

Hamma · 2004-01-08, 01:41 AM

Yea bases died all the time, it was no good

Queensidecastle · 2004-01-08, 12:34 PM

Rofl, yeah that totally sucked. Anyone remember when you could jackhammer a matrix panel over and over until the base was totaly drained? I miss the good old days

TheRagingGerbil · 2004-01-08, 01:09 PM

I dunno, I'm kinda split on the matter.

In one hand it used to really suck having your base go neutral right in the middle of a huge firefight.

On the other hand, some of my greatest rushes have been Gal dropping that critical ant through a rain of hell-fire to restock the Silo just in the nick of time.

I miss the combat ant drop, but I don't miss the ntu drain.

TeraHertz · 2004-01-08, 01:11 PM

I usualy spawn at coutyard AMSs anyway. Less chance of nasty cloakers pouncing on me in the corridors and I can get to the battle faster.
I dont think respawning should degenerate base NTU.

*Bump*
"What was that."
*Turns round*
"Hmm."
*Sweeps corridor with gunfire, then continues running*
CHUNK CHUNK CHUNK
"Bloody Scatter pistol!"