Cheap tactic or fair play?

[VWE001]

Tonight as the Rooks roll on, 4aces takes an M3 and pulls it into the map room waiting for the word that the city is down. Fair or unfair? I think its pretty cheap...

[Heinkel]

This game is, "gamed," in every other dweeb way....so I see nothing wrong with it.

[SirLoin]

Roll m3 into maproom?..U mean so it's not visable or something?

[Preon1]

Sounds like a dangerous place to be

[eskimo2]

It sounds smart to me.

eskimo

[Bluedog]

If you drive into a maproom, you cant be seen.


Solution is a 1k bomb.

[Nash]

I reckon if you have some kind of an objective, be it offensive, defensive it doesn't matter... then people do whatever it takes to get it done. The only way to stop it is to make it impossible (narrowing the map room entrance for example). Otherwise, you work with the tools given you. Folks are playing at war... in a game... morality doesn't even enter the picture... and worrying about hurt feelings was about the last thing on that M3 driver's mind.

Btw, I rolled an M16 into the map room for base defence once. That was kinda fun. But the next time you run into this kinda thing, kill him. The map room doesn't protect him, and his icon still appears. He's just as much of a sitting duck as he would be any place else... He's just a little closer to where he needs to be is all.

[Sandman]

Sounds fair enough.

[Innominate]

Ground vehicles using cover?

HOW GAMEY!

[Yeager]

Its dorky as hell but its a flaw in the game so expect it to be taken advantage of.  This is afterall, WAR.

Heres the deal.  The Map room is a 3D object but for some some silly gawdamned reason you can drive into and through the 3D object without penalty, thus effectively hiding the M3 within the 3D object.

No one heavy object (M3) should be able to cross thru the path of a similar heavy object (Map room) without there being a physics penalty (Collision).

Right now, there is no peanlty, so its dweeby as hell.

[Nash]

Actually Yeager, the openning is big enough that you can get through it and inside of the map room. You don't hit anything.

But still... you can't hide in it... icon shows... and it doesn't protect you.

[moot]

It's not collideable to eliminate everything but paratroopers from destroying it. Either it'd need to be set to a super high hardness (even then continuous shelling or lancaster swarming would eventually suffice) and troopers lethality correspondingly or the code should be changed.
It's more a question of if it bothers HTC. Seeing how he answered the "eng-off, gamey or not?" thread and that he landed at a vulched then capped MA field himself...

[Voss]

You know when you're at a field and you go to the map room it is 'the' map room in the town (except from a CV which takes you to some remote and undisclosed location). You can use the external view from the maproom to view the towns' surroundings and check things out.

I would expect most of the veterans to know that, but some rookies may not.

[mipoikel]

Originally posted by VWE001
Tonight as the Rooks roll on, 4aces takes an M3 and pulls it into the map room waiting for the word that the city is down. Fair or unfair? I think its pretty cheap...

We learned it from bishes!:rolleyes:

[hblair]

That's nothing! I saw some real-life gaming the game last weekend. I was watching a football game on TV, the game was winding down, the team needed a field goal to win it. They were out of time-outs, it was 3rd down and they were in field goal range. 10 seconds left in the game. QB gets the ball and throws a forward pass 2 feet in front of him into the ground with the apparent intention of stopping the clock! They called it a "spike"! I couldn't believe it! Clearly not what the writers of the rules had in mind. That team should have taken the loss and kept their dignity! Gaming the game has reached college football! Look what you guys have started, or have you?

Point is, if it can be done, people will do it. The answer is making maprooms hard ojects, not crying because people want to win.