DUST Search - Remove WP for destroying yellow installation

Skihids wrote:

Unguarded/abandoned material is best destroyed rather than left to be captured by the enemy and used against your forces. It's an ancient doctrine of warfare.

Turrets qualify as abandoned material 99.9% of the time.

Hacking WPs should be removed from turrets because it incentivizes negative behavior. Hand them out for getting kills with the turret, but not for simply tagging it.

Infantry isn't affected by red turrets so they have no skin in the game. It is vehicle pilots who suffer when a previously blue turret turns red behind them. Good pilots clear away enemy turrets as they move into an area, but they can't do squat about abandoned blue turrets, they just sit there like automated mine fields waiting to go off.

How would infantry feel if CCP scattered AI turrets around the map? Would they just leave them in odd places to gank them if they turn red? Or would they destroy them if they weren't using them?

I feel there should be no yellow turrets. Let people buy and deploy them if they want one. The menu mechanism for deployment is already in game, as are the art assets and slot in the market so it shouldn't take more than six months to make the change.

And while we are at it, why the hell are there any neutral objects in the game at all? Why do the defenders wait for the referee's whistle to race the attackers for possession of their own property? It doesn't make a lick of sense.

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Nothing Certain Villore Sec Ops Gallente Federation 267	Posted - 2014.02.21 22:49:00 - [1] - Quote You will notice the only ones objecting are the tankers who get the WP. They should definitely remove the WP for destroying neutral turrets, you are destroying a potential team asset. I think they should go further and make them indestructible or at least as durable as CRU's and supply depots. They should be allowed to be disabled though. They should also remove AI so they are only useful when manned but strategic points when manned. Because, that's why.
Nothing Certain Villore Sec Ops Gallente Federation 267	Posted - 2014.02.21 22:58:00 - [2] - Quote Skihids wrote: Unguarded/abandoned material is best destroyed rather than left to be captured by the enemy and used against your forces. It's an ancient doctrine of warfare. Turrets qualify as abandoned material 99.9% of the time. Hacking WPs should be removed from turrets because it incentivizes negative behavior. Hand them out for getting kills with the turret, but not for simply tagging it. Infantry isn't affected by red turrets so they have no skin in the game. It is vehicle pilots who suffer when a previously blue turret turns red behind them. Good pilots clear away enemy turrets as they move into an area, but they can't do squat about abandoned blue turrets, they just sit there like automated mine fields waiting to go off. How would infantry feel if CCP scattered AI turrets around the map? Would they just leave them in odd places to gank them if they turn red? Or would they destroy them if they weren't using them? I feel there should be no yellow turrets. Let people buy and deploy them if they want one. The menu mechanism for deployment is already in game, as are the art assets and slot in the market so it shouldn't take more than six months to make the change. And while we are at it, why the hell are there any neutral objects in the game at all? Why do the defenders wait for the referee's whistle to race the attackers for possession of their own property? It doesn't make a lick of sense. I agree with some of what you say but think the answer lies in incentivizing the manning of turrets, not the hacking of them. There would be more use of turrets if they were not so easily destroyed, they also leave you vulnerable but that is ok. Are you not aware that many of the turrets are blasters and primarily AI? Infantry do face the same challenges as tanks with regards to turrets but we generally don't try to destroy them, the exception being grabbing a turret and milking WP by destroying other turrets, just like tankers. No one does it because they are a threat, even though they pose a threat to infantry, they do it for the WP. Because, that's why.