Advance Med Terminals

Real Mulambo · 2004-04-20, 04:32 AM

What a sodding waste of time the advance med terminals are.

They are way way too slow.

Speed the buggers up please devs.
Surely you can do that in a patch without bringing the whole game to its knees and having major downtime and rollbacks.

Fragmatic · 2004-04-20, 04:45 AM

Originally Posted by Real Mulambo

What a sodding waste of time the advance med terminals are.

They are way way too slow.

Yes, they're of no use at all!

Batousai · 2004-04-20, 08:56 AM

^^^^^^ Agreed

flypengy · 2004-04-20, 10:03 AM

That... and they need to make one of the biolab link benefits be advanc med terms at all the bases.

Cryptica · 2004-04-20, 10:20 AM

While I agree adv. med terms should be faster, I don't think they should be sent to all friendly bases if you own a bio lab. Basically anything hard (like a 2 ton med station) couldn't conceivably get to the base. Software, electronic blueprints (for vehicles), and radar benefits, etc., make sense.
As for the rate of healing, I would say that Adv. terms should heal 10 health/10 armor per second. As it is right now, I believe they heal 5/5 every 1.5 seconds. This way the most time anyone would spend in an adv. term would be 15-20 seconds, as opposed to 45-55 seconds (assuming a rexo with no armor needing to regenerate to 200.)

shorts41 · 2004-04-20, 10:47 AM

Yah, they should speed up the adv med termnal. I don't know if its just me but the normal ones seem to heal you faster than the adv ones and they are supposed to be advanced!

SilverLord · 2004-04-20, 11:00 AM

Does anyone even use the med terms?

drsomewhere · 2004-04-20, 11:07 AM

Originally Posted by SilverLord

Does anyone even use the med terms?

Tru dat

Lartnev · 2004-04-20, 11:12 AM

I do, they're the only thing that ever wants to heal my MAX armour. People for some reason don't want to waste their nanites on me

SilverLord · 2004-04-20, 11:19 AM

Originally Posted by Lartnev

I do, they're the only thing that ever wants to heal my MAX armour. People for some reason don't want to waste their nanites on me

I would. Nothing beats maxes.

BlackHawk · 2004-04-20, 05:48 PM

Just about anything beats MAXes nowadays

Anyway, I think a way of making Adv Med terms actually useful would be to make them heal a percentage of health and armor every second, rather than making it a falt rate. 5 armor per second while in a MAX is torture. I think if they were to set the heal rate at 5-10% of your current maximum health/armor points per second (thus taking 10-20 seconds max to heal to full, regardless of armor), as well as repositioned the terms in bases, they might see a little more use.

EarlyDawn · 2004-04-20, 06:17 PM

Originally Posted by Cryptica

While I agree adv. med terms should be faster, I don't think they should be sent to all friendly bases if you own a bio lab. Basically anything hard (like a 2 ton med station) couldn't conceivably get to the base. Software, electronic blueprints (for vehicles), and radar benefits, etc., make sense.
As for the rate of healing, I would say that Adv. terms should heal 10 health/10 armor per second. As it is right now, I believe they heal 5/5 every 1.5 seconds. This way the most time anyone would spend in an adv. term would be 15-20 seconds, as opposed to 45-55 seconds (assuming a rexo with no armor needing to regenerate to 200.)

Nanotechnology, bro. There's no way a vehicle can be constructed in a little under 3 seconds from a 7 foot deep hole in the ground, nor can a vehicle be repaired by a stream of energy and nanoscopic robots. But yet you have a hard time believing that the computers in a bio lab could analyze armor and repair it?

If you want something to satisfy your issue with the advancement, nanite clusters in the base are being ordered to upgrade energy arrays on the projector of the terminal, while at the same time, all armor damage is forwarded to supercomputers at the bio labs that analyze armor status on the fly, and send the instructions to the terminal detailing how the nanites need to work to fix said armor damage.