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Cross Atu Conspiratus Immortalis 775	Posted - 2012.10.03 13:42:00 - [1] - Quote Leave timer at 5 minutes but change condition to "scores hit on or is hit by" enemy forces. If you're in active battle you or someone you're repping will either hit or bit hit buy enemy forces within that time frame. Even the most dedicated pure medic gets shot it
Cross Atu Conspiratus Immortalis 775	Posted - 2012.10.03 16:05:00 - [2] - Quote Ghost-33 wrote: Or you could just have it so that anything done in any safe/restricted area has no gain involved. If the enemy cant get to you to knife you then you shouldn't get any points for what you are doing there. Sure some might say "but I flew/drove back here to be safe to repair my Dropship/tank!" Well too bad you wouldn't get any gains in exchange for the safety you chose. (emphasis mine) I'm a LogiBro and I fully support this idea. Thank you for the useful and constructive suggestion. EDIT: This would also solve the "sniping from the MCC" and "sniping from within the red zone" issues that have been raised in other threads.
Cross Atu Conspiratus Immortalis 775	Posted - 2012.10.03 16:15:00 - [3] - Quote Mira Adari wrote: Ghost-33 wrote: Just reward -NO- SP, WP or ISK for any actions that are not in a decent proximity to any enemy. That way repairing anything away from the enemy in a safe area will give you nothing but if it needs to be done for team-play reasons people will still do it but the farmers will not. Doing anything around the fight or front-lines like repairing a vehicle in combat or picking up downed dusters will still net you the gains that come with the help. Good/Bad? Edit = Or you could just have it so that anything done in any safe/restricted area has no gain involved. If the enemy cant get to you to knife you then you shouldn't get any points for what you are doing there. Sure some might say "but I flew/drove back here to be safe to repair my Dropship/tank!" Well too bad you wouldn't get any gains in exchange for the safety you chose. So when I snipe someone from across the map in a pile of friendlies I get nothing from it? No SPs from doing anything in the redzone doesn't work, either. When your team is redlined, you would be unable to get SP or ISK so anyone would just stop playing once redlined. The other main battlefied role I play is sniper and I fail to see why sniping from beyond the redline is vital enough to warrant point gain. For ambush maps just remove the redzome completely and have start spawns be MCC and/or random. For skirmish maps not having any gains from within the redzone would benefit everyone because fewer players would be inclined to "dig in" within the redzone and fight rather than flank to claim objectives when getting pressed hard. As far as I can see it's win all the way around, am I overlooking some compelling reason why sniping from within the red is something that must be preserved? If so please elaborate as to why. Cheers, Cross
Cross Atu Conspiratus Immortalis 775	Posted - 2012.10.03 16:28:00 - [4] - Quote Farmers might be on the winning team though. Sure their team is disadvantaged but that doesn't guarantee a loss so in those matches they actually get more than they do presently for the same activities. And they'd suffer no loss of points from present when their team lost. Unless you are proposing that teams get less than they do in the current build if they don't win in which case how would we avoid punishing players for having the misfortune of being teamed with the farmers? "Too bad just never play random" doesn't seem like quality game design and honestly even if everyone except the farmers left random why wouldn't the farmers just stay and continue to farm? I'm all for promoting team play but to stop the farming the solution really must be removing the rewards specific to farming (i.e. making farming no longer valuable without imposing any further burdens on other players)
Cross Atu Conspiratus Immortalis 775	Posted - 2012.10.03 16:38:00 - [5] - Quote Mira Adari wrote: Fivetimes Infinity wrote: So the people doing this stuff are just repairing vehicles in a safe area? Well, how about only damage an enemy inflicts on a friendly vehicle provides points for repairing, and neutral damage due to vehicle decay, collisions, friendly fire, and so on don't provide any points? That'd end the entire thing with the least amount of effort, wouldn't it? It would not be the least effort, determining what damage was done by whom is trivial, but keeping track of that data is a different matter. Incite teamwork/striving for victory by handing out a SP bonus for winning a match. (is it possible to have a signature in this forum? Or do i have to make that the name of my corporation? ) Cross Atu wrote: Mira Adari wrote: No SPs from doing anything in the redzone doesn't work, either. When your team is redlined, you would be unable to get SP or ISK so anyone would just stop playing once redlined. The other main battlefied role I play is sniper and I fail to see why sniping from beyond the redline is vital enough to warrant point gain. For ambush maps just remove the redzome completely and have start spawns be MCC and/or random. For skirmish maps not having any gains from within the redzone would benefit everyone because fewer players would be inclined to "dig in" within the redzone and fight rather than flank to claim objectives when getting pressed hard. As far as I can see it's win all the way around, am I overlooking some compelling reason why sniping from within the red is something that must be preserved? If so please elaborate as to why. Cheers, Cross I am a sniper, too, and I absolutely hate fellow snipers that sit below the MCC instead of trying to get to an objective. Getting them to move their asses would be an absolutely good thing. But sometimes you are just fighting a losing battle. You are redlined and anyone that ventures outside is almost immediately put down. I was on both ends of this and there was absolutely no way for the redlined team to get a foot out of the redzone (that might change once people have earned enough SP/ISK to dare fielding dropships). Snipers everywhere to kill infantry, AVs and sometimes HAVs to deal with vehicles (I actually was both...a Sniper with AV grenades). When the redlined team doesn't even get SP for 'holding the line', why should they do it? They simply wait somewhere safe for the end of the battle or log out. It may be a map by map issue, I have had this happen to teams I was on (or was added to during a battle in progress) and managed to use a LAV plus 'sprint fit' (scout suit with speed enhancers) to break out despite all the incoming fire. I then dropped an uplink out side the redline area of engagement and proceeded to have no one use it, not a single team member. They just kept respawning in the red even tho we were on an objectives map. Once I'd think was a fluke but this happened to me several times last build, each time I'd get an uplink placed (sometimes after many deaths in the attempt) and it would see no use from my team. I agree that gaining no WP when inside the red does give little incentive to hold the line when pushed back and creates a frustrating situation, but it doesn't seem any more frustrating than what I witness in games under the current iteration. Again tho it may be map related as I've really only been in redlined games (on either side) in the larger mountainous maps.
Cross Atu Conspiratus Immortalis 775	Posted - 2012.10.04 02:46:00 - [6] - Quote Goric Rumis wrote: Skihids wrote: Goric Rumis wrote: Mira Adari wrote: Also, what about damage done by bumping against objects in the field? That is damage done by legitimate playing, and it should be rewarded to repair that. Except, of course, that current farming is done without friendly fire, so if you reward neutral-damage repairs you're still not solving the problem. Current teams are damaging their vehicles by ramming into things. Which brings up a possibility: Maybe objects in the safe zone cause no damage to vehicles? Without friendly fire or environmental damage, these teams will need to move out of the safe zone to farm, where they will be vulnerable to enemy forces. While I dislike screwing with the laws of physics, I could support this. Yeah, I don't like it for that reason either, but if it's possible to get hit by a friendly's forge gun without taking damage this makes about as much sense. And the more I think about it, the more I think it might be the only really viable solution for this problem. I don't think we'd need to carry this mechanism over to nullsec if friendly fire is on, but then you might get corps making a tactical decision to have WP-farming squads in order to collect precision strikes and orbital bombardments. Not sure whether that would still count as an exploit: at least the entire team is (implicitly) agreeing to it, but you're still getting WP without putting yourself at risk. The other aspect that would make it more balanced within Null is that (AFAIK) the OB/PS are going to require players to use not just game mechanics so there's a whole added later of ISK cost and Corp/cross game logistics in play there just to employ them at all (thus harder to spam them). Because generally speaking a contested system in Null Sec isn't going to be a safe place to park your ship and shoot at a planet.
Cross Atu Conspiratus Immortalis 775	Posted - 2012.10.04 04:15:00 - [7] - Quote There are a few threads related to this subject but I don't believe I've mentioned this here (forgive me if I am in error). What about the concept of simply decreasing impact/crash damage across the board? Are there any unintended negative consequences that spring to anyones mind? I know it would make dropships and LAVs a bit more durable but 'on first blush' that doesn't seem like a major issue, and if it were harder to damage vehicles in the first place (via crash damage/ i.e. safe damage) then the fundamental value of farming would also decrease across the board. Thoughts, improvements, suggestions?
Cross Atu Conspiratus Immortalis 775	Posted - 2012.10.04 08:50:00 - [8] - Quote Aighun wrote: v3k3v wrote: They should just turn down the volume on the damage from hitting a structure or team mates truck/ship/tank.. problem solved. Though they may have to keep damge volume on high for drop ships. Drop ships used to be like fell hammers of the sky, crushing 10 to 20 enemies a match, simply by letting gravity do the work of flattening the opposing team... I wonder if there's an effective middle ground with this. Or perhaps a hybrid solution, turn down the damage as far as functional without making dropships into a hammer and then add another aspect as well to further address this?