Hell, i'd be happy if we could just remove the turret.

Irish,

You'll get more folks to read it if you go back, edit your post, and break that large paragraph into several smaller ones. Smaller paragraphs are much easier to read on these forums.

Also, great idea.

Kaethis.

damn it I thought there were cookies!

I've been wanting something like this for a while.

If it had no fitting costs, I'd stick them on my tank. Five seats is most of my squad. I could run transport on the side without compromising my solo effectiveness.

I actually had the same Idea believe it or not, just never mentioned it on the forums.

Most things tend to get buried in QQ threads.

anyway +1

TL;DR
Nix the turret, trade for a troop carrier. Carry a full squad of 6, total.

P.S.- Help me keep this thread on page 1. If you like it, don't just hit like. At least post a reply of "+1" or something to keep the thread alive. Thanks!

P.P.S. The cake is a lie.

I rarely, if ever, use the turret in the back of my little LAV.

I would LOVE it if, instead of fitting a turret to the back of my LAV, I could swap it out for a troop seat. Call it a Squad Transport Module or something. Take out the turret, put in a bench seat on either side of the bed of an LAV.

Justify the CPU/PG cost by including troop "shielding" that simply makes the hitbox of the LAV rise up to the bottom of a dropsuit's neck level to protect the troops being transported a little bit, but still allowing them to be shot or sniped, or even for a REALLY skilled or lucky grenade tosser to lob a grenade in there and kill the lot of them.

Give the LAV slightly more shields or armor to make up for the lack of a turret. Make it accommodate two troops at lvl 1 skill and add 2% module efficacy for the HP boost per level, for a total of 4 mercs riding passenger, 3 troops at lvl 3 and 4 troops at level 5 for to transport a full squad in a single LAV, with a 10% boost to the efficacy of the HP increase effect. It could require skill lvl 3 of LAV operation to start skilling into the module.

I think it'd make a juicy target for a savvy AVer, and an awesome mechanic for good squads on the move, without wasting two LAVs toward the team quota.

How many of you would use the module? Who thinks it would be useful?

DISCUSS!

Here's your cookies.

One of the LAV variants should come like this, we used to have:

• logi
• STD
• scout

(logi was removed because it was so tanky and being used solely to run people over, scout was super rare to begin with since it just got extra speed)
Either the Logi or the Scout shouldn't come with a turret and should instead come with a group seat in the back when they get put back into the game.

• Logi: A logistics vehicle, transporting troops is considered logistics. But since it's near front lines a turret might be needed.
• Scout: Taking whole groups of people behind enemy lines.

They should have them sort of like how vehicles and starter fits come with stuff already fitted, if you want a logi with a turret then you can replace the seats with the turret.

I personally would want the logi to have the seats in the back.

As for the seats themselves how bout STD ADV and PRO all get different stuff?

• STD
-just the seats


• ADV
-the seats
-armor on the left and right side of the vehicle


• PRO
-the seats
-armor on all sides, fully enclosing them from the ground (but still open to the air) / armor on left and right sides and over top but still open behind the vehicle (I like the second one better methinks)

Note to self: Never trust the irish

+1

But I think some sort of delay in getting in and out would be needed - like a driver controlled door or a mount and dismount animation so a full squad could not ram raid an objective and be insta killing, they would have to consider cover when dismounting.

I'll make a deal with you. Bring me beer, and I'll bring you cookies.

What kind of cookies ^o^