Paladin Sas wrote:I like that their adding vehicle ammo, its an amazing feature that i believe should have been there from the beginning, but i foresee a few flaws and i would like to share my thoughts on them.
(Problem) if i understand correctly, the only way to rearm your guns is to go sit by a supply depot, and i see a few issues with this.
--- supply depots dont last very long, they tend to go poof pretty quick because everyone wants easy points.
--- dropships would need to come down to the depot to rearm, and that leaves them VERY vernerable to instapoof via forge/swarm
(Plausable Solutions)
--- add a vehicle module that resupplies the ammunition of vehicles within a radius. give CPU/PG reductions to this module when equiped on a logi lav/dropship. it could even give resupply WP, cause, who doesnt love more WP?
--and/or--
--- vehicles have really big powerplants on board, what if you allowed a slow passive regen of amunition up to the cap, with the cap being increased with your new module. the regen should be a percentage of the base ammo storage (before modifiers) per second (ie. 0.5% ammo regen per sec) being near a supply depot would give you a +10% regen/sec and maybe the above purposed module could be +2.5/5/7.5% regen/sec (basic/adv/proto)
(conclusion) the idea here is that supply depots will still become high value structures that both sides might fight over, but when they all poof (and im certian they will ALL poof) having alternate ammo methods will keep vehicles in the fight, so long as they manage their consumption.
(spoiler) i am a dedicated ground pounder, i dont drive vehicles, i shoot them with swarms. that being said, i feel for my armored and winged brothers. vehicle users, please give some feedback on your thoughts here.
Your solution is actually not bad been thinking about something similarly. When we got MAV's once (in a blue moon !!!) if they act like supply depots (aka making people able to shift suits in them or near them) it would also be pretty straight up to havve tanks resupply by them.
BUT as CCP have been working so hard we don't have these yet ......
But hey as you state everybody got a LLAV by now.. so why not let them resupply tanks hmmm
^^ do that CCP and make LLAv's gain wp's for it. Might actually make them tactical advantage .....