Hey are you forgetting about spawning in? The smart spawn mechanic might not sit well with players when it's sending them into irradiated regions.

There's some good points there, but I guess I'm still torn about this license to TK in this context.
Anyhow, going back to Ghost's post on the radiation period, I could see it being set anywhere between 20 and 30 seconds. Catching that theorycrafting bug from Jadek, I'd like to play around with the idea of radiation buildup. This means that if an enemy player rehacks a harvester while in the radiation period, and subsequently another friendly player rehacks the harvester the gamma blast and radiation fallout damage increases exponentially. Also each hack adds an additional 5m - 10m to the radiation fallout zone and 20 to 30 seconds while the radiation damage cools down to zero.

With this mechanic teams involved in a violent rally of switching control of a harvester would temporarily make a section of the map no mans land.

Lore wise it makes a bit of sense that you're getting all of this radiation when fluxing around with a micro wormhole generator.

I'd actually be interested in seeing foot solider couriers added into that mix. It would be similar to the Mass Effect Multiplayer retrieval objectives. A merc picks up a vat and it highly diminishes their walking and running speed. Vehicles would most likely be needed to assist mercs in travel time.

Object Retrieval Objective

I would also argue for some type of HUD notification to identify when clone containers are on the move.

Clones are not stored within the harvester themselves. Clones are either diverted to the MCC or if a transport container courier is within range (5m) then the clones are diverted there.

What I love about your idea is the radiation period tied to a hacked harvester. What I would love to see from that is an initial high intensity gamma burst of about 450hp damage that fires out about 10m from a harvester once a hack is complete. There would be an audible rising tone signal that lets players know in the immediate area of a harvester when a suicide hack is about to complete. Opposing players and friendly teammates have the indication to abandon the area or stay and fight. However, in doing so they are likely going to die from the blast and fallout (this fallout damage being equivalent to ~50hp/s damage in the 15m radius zone).

What works about that scenario is you can have a friendly high EHP tanked suit holding the transport container next to harvester scooping up players that die from the gamma burst and the immediate fallout. The reason this tanked suit has the ability to survive the fallout is with the help of a long beam repair tool person on the periphery of the fallout zone healing the courier of most radiation damage.

Not to be late on the issue , but I think you gave the reason that the person survived the blast who was equipped with the transporter container as being helped by a long beam repair tool , but why not have that type of equipment added to the container as an extra incentive to carry such a heavy tool that prohibits movement. It not only transports the mass that is collected but it protects the wearer from the blast.

Is that too far off ???? Bad ideal ????

I'm glad to have you guys here to keep the ball rolling on expanding these ideas. It's amazingly helpful!

Now you just need a Dev or CPM tag to draw some more attention to the topic.

Just be careful with talking about lasers around CCP Mintchip. She can take you off on quite a tangent.

LAZoRZ!!!!

inb4 Mintchip

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You guys have been at work since the last time I seen this post . I love it when a plan comes together and I loved Mass Effect. You guys have been at work with great ideals might I add and I hope that CCP will roll with this. This could be the " Other " game mode that people have been asking for. It could be the training ground , a place to work on one's tactics because this sounds like that type of mode with all you have to think about and the strategic importance of the Biomass Sphere coupled with the fact that now YOU HAVE TO WORK AS A TEAM to achieve a goal because everyone has an interest. You guys are on to something !!!!

I have to catch up and read more.

Yeah, that could be an issue. You could draw a comparison to how friendlies killed in precision strikes count against your friendly fire count. An argument could be made that while both systems give you warning sound before their area of effect damage takes effect, harvesters are stationary objects that you approach at your own risk. You have a better sense of battlefield awareness with a harvester's when a gamma blast is likely to occur. The two main red flags are the solider approaching a terminal and the subsequent sound of a player in deconstruction phase building up to a gamma blast. That should give you enough warning if you are vigilant to get out of the blast area.

So exponential damage growth would looks like this for the radiation fallout.
Hack 1: 30hp/s , 15m radius zone , 30 seconds
Hack 2: 60hp/s , 25m radius zone , current timer + 30 seconds
Hack 3: 120hp/s , 35m radius zone , - -
Hack 4: 240hp/s , 45m radius zone , - -

I think there has to be some type of damage dropoff as you move farther from the harvester. These radiation figures should be representative of the damage a player would take standing right next to the harvester during this radiation period. This would give daisy chained repair healers a better chance of getting a player up to the controls of a harvester while in radiation cool down.

Woah that last bit, so you're saying radiation only damages armor then? Not shields? That might be more unfortunate for Gallente armor tankers.

Neat idea but seems like an extreme amount of coding
Shouldn't be a priority till atleast all weapons are implemented