Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Wishlist => Topic started by: eagl on August 13, 2005, 03:33:15 AM
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How about you can trade perks for land mines, which you can place anywhere within a certain distance of a particular friendly field? The price and supply of mines can be managed based on arena balance so people don't go crazy...
To compensate for killshooter being abused with mines, a friendly should be able to detonate a mine if he runs over it, but it won't cause damage. That way a minefield can't be abused by luring enemy vehicles into it without the "friendly" driver knowing where the mines are. Drive over one of your own mines, and kaboom! The mine detonates causing no friendly damage but it would alert the enemy that there are mines around.
Have the mines expire and "come alive" only every 15 or so minutes so the server would only have to update people's clients with minefield lists every once in a while. Mines would expire off of the list automatically so the only realtime mine info would need to be which ones are actually detonated. That, plus limiting the number of active mines in the arena at any one time, might make the bandwidth problem associated with these things managable.
Either that, or make mines act like very very slow bullets :) The mine owner's client is responsible for updating the host whenever a mine is detonated. That way the mine owner would be forced to remain nearby the mines in order to get player position updates and notice/report detonations. It would prevent abuse and over-use if the mine owner had to remain close to the mines otherwise they'd disappear.
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treat this as a joke, he-he
Give mines to M3 as another ordnance, say 10 of them. To place a mine you need to drive to point and stop for 15-20 sec. Mines cannt be placed on concrete and around GV spawns (500m looks enough). Mines must be visible, but not too well. Mines still active fo limited time, say 30-60 minutes or few hours, when disappears.
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Ok I'll buy into the Mine idea. but only if we can also have unarmed vehicles with flail chains to safely clear a path through minefeilds. Then Gvs wuold haveto follow these vehicles exactly or risk running over a mine.
Might be interesting
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Originally posted by eagl
How about you can trade perks for land mines, which you can place anywhere within a certain distance of a particular friendly field? The price and supply of mines can be managed based on arena balance so people don't go crazy...
To compensate for killshooter being abused with mines, a friendly should be able to detonate a mine if he runs over it, but it won't cause damage. That way a minefield can't be abused by luring enemy vehicles into it without the "friendly" driver knowing where the mines are. Drive over one of your own mines, and kaboom! The mine detonates causing no friendly damage but it would alert the enemy that there are mines around.
Have the mines expire and "come alive" only every 15 or so minutes so the server would only have to update people's clients with minefield lists every once in a while. Mines would expire off of the list automatically so the only realtime mine info would need to be which ones are actually detonated. That, plus limiting the number of active mines in the arena at any one time, might make the bandwidth problem associated with these things managable.
Either that, or make mines act like very very slow bullets :) The mine owner's client is responsible for updating the host whenever a mine is detonated. That way the mine owner would be forced to remain nearby the mines in order to get player position updates and notice/report detonations. It would prevent abuse and over-use if the mine owner had to remain close to the mines otherwise they'd disappear.
Mines are good like that
Uber
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I like the idea!
I also go with Drediock for having mine-sweeper gv's (ofcourse unarmed)
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I'd go for it :aok
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all for it, it would put a neat twist to the GV missions.
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I can see it now, some n00b keeps upping a minesweeper while panzers fire at him from every direction...
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Another reason to add the Sherman. It can be the mine clearing version with the flail mounted on the front. It will be able to defend itself as well.
ack-ack
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I don't buy into the idea of an unarmed gv being able to place mines, I think that might be too complicated. I do think that mines could be added as part of the map. It would be like auto-ack and already be placed, and only able to destroy enemy vehicles. It could reset every 30 minutes.
Example:
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/201_1124072881_vfield.jpg)
(red dots are mines)
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Definately have them in the indestructables...
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I remember when ah had mines. They looked like white rocks, but if you drove over one, you were suddenly dead :)
Seriously though, interesting idea.