Pvt Numnutz
Black Phoenix Mercenaries
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Posted - 2013.12.30 15:40:00 -
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Red line rail tanks have always been a problem to dropships, since the days of beta they have camped the redline to hunt dropships. Yesterday I squadded with two excellent gunners and brought the fight to them, we killed a few redline rail tanks. I'm sure some of you are thinking yeah redline rail tanks are killable what's the problem? Well allow me to give you an example of what I believe the main issue with red line rail tanks is.
Skirm on lone harvest and the rail tank is behind the third extractor just under the MCC probably 5-7 seconds into the redline. I notify my gunners and prepare the strafe run. We go in and open up on the tank full force, fly over it spin around and open up again. the tank goes down and we have 8 seconds to get out, I hit the afterburner and make it out with 1 second left on the clock.
So with two highly experienced gunners and a skilled pilot a dropship can take out a rail tank close to the edge of the red line. However I had to put my dropship in a considerable amount of risk to do so.
However the rail tanker called in another rail tank and sat even further back in the red, he had the same cover of the map, only now I would not be able to destroy him without loosing my much more expensive dropship in the process. So I dropped my gunners off to go be useful while I claimed to height celling to see if he would grow a pair. As I was sitting at max height the tank angled itself on an incline and shot me down. Yes a rail tank in the redline shot down a dropship at max flight celling.
So to recap, pu$$y boy red wanted to sit in the red with no danger to his tank and got killed by a combined effort of 3 players in a dropship. He then showed how much of a pu$$y he really was and sat so far back that the 3 players in the dropship couldn't kill him and managed to not only deny the dropship the map but also the sky.
This is a problem, if you think it isn't your a shameful waste of biomass. If he had used an incline to raise his tanks turret out of the redline then that would have been something, maybe if I had seen him I would be able to engage and possibly destroy him. Though he did it from a position only another rail tank would be able to assault. And that rail tank would have to risk his tank to kill the redline tank. Its simply not fair not to mention cheap.
This problem has existed for a long time, it was made worse in 1.7 because of the decrease in charge time. I usually don't get a chance to react after the first shot, and if I do then what? Can't fly anymore, can't fight the problem, I have to hang up my wings because the redline allows cowards to kill from safety.
Its so bad that pilots are hanging up their wings for rail tanks! Yeah its that bad!
So what do we do about this? Something has to be done, its gone on for far to long.
I have suggested disabling vehicle guns in friendly redlines. I thought about making rail turrets more expensive, however that would just contribute to the problem. We have to understand that redline tankers are unhonorable cowards, the thought of loosing a tank for them is too much to actually join the battle.
Please CCP, deny these two shot monsters the safety to sit unapposed to those that risk their vehicles in games to earn their isk. End this now before it continues to get worse. |