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Title: Whats with the VH respawn times?
Post by: EagleDNY on May 28, 2007, 01:25:38 PM
OK - so from last night's raid on v15 (by HQ), we are seeing that the VHs respawn at different times after being bombed.  Is this by design?  Is this a bug?  I'm trying to think of some logical reason why one VH would respawn faster than the others, but I can't think of one.... I can only observe the effect.
Title: Re: Whats with the VH respawn times?
Post by: LYNX on May 28, 2007, 02:40:44 PM
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Originally posted by EagleDNY
OK - so from last night's raid on v15 (by HQ), we are seeing that the VHs respawn at different times after being bombed.  Is this by design?  Is this a bug?  I'm trying to think of some logical reason why one VH would respawn faster than the others, but I can't think of one.... I can only observe the effect.


VH regain time is 15 minutes.  

If some knob head bombs 1 VH say 9 munutes before the other 2 go down then the VH's are out of sync.  You'll have just 6 minutes to clear Gv's and get troops IN.  Not in the air. Not running around 500 yards away but IN.
Your in for a hell of a time.  Get them hangers down altogether or just don't bother.
Title: Whats with the VH respawn times?
Post by: LTARsqrl on May 28, 2007, 03:15:31 PM
Yup.  15 minute respawn time on VHs.  Never seen it different and I use a timer to monitor VH down time.

And as Lynx said, more often than not, VHs are taken down out of "sync" so they will come up out of "sync" as well.

LTARsqrl  <>:aok
Title: Whats with the VH respawn times?
Post by: EagleDNY on May 29, 2007, 07:43:13 AM
I know what the time is supposed to be - 15 mins.  But logically, if we run through with buffs and drop all 3 hangers in the span of 1 minute, and then they start respawning out of sequence, and come up more than several minutes apart, something must be off.

I know, without a 15 minute film of the event, we can't prove nothin' as they say.  I do know that we let all three hangers respawn to get them into sequence, and still had the same problem.  Next time we'll run film and make sure.  

I like the new V bases layout, and the V15 defenders were on the ball spawning like mad the second a hanger came up.  A couple of big bombs on the big pad hanger when it popped would get you an immediate 3-5 kills, and if the other hangers popped, they were scurrying off the big pad like cockroaches while you were busy killing them.  

I just had to wonder if there isn't a random element, or something knocking it out of synch.  AH is software, and the hangers are on a simple timer someplace, and there are potentially things that could change the time in a computer program.  I'm not talking hacking or anything, I'm just wondering if the timer stops for a few seconds to check damage/status/kills if I drop bombs on targets in a dead hanger, throwing the timer off.  

Again, not a big deal, but it got me wondering what was happening.   to the defenders - you took it, you held it for a while, and now we know to come back and carpet bomb you when you do it again ;)
Title: Whats with the VH respawn times?
Post by: FiLtH on May 29, 2007, 11:53:42 AM
Ya the way things pop up, it becomes a bug hunt.
Title: Whats with the VH respawn times?
Post by: Nilsen on May 29, 2007, 03:58:28 PM
Ive always wondered another think slightily related to this.

How long does an object remain damaged? I mean.. for how long is a bomb hit on a hangar registerd?