Goric Rumis
Amarr Templars
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2013.02.28 20:50:00 -
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Jax Saurian wrote:and as I said many times over in the right hands the LAV can be a useful tool but won't be seen as such since it is free and can be discarded
if we brought back free dropships people will see them only as disposable transport NOT a useful tool that it has shown itself to be
1. There's nothing stopping people from using the more expensive LAVs now. If they're really all that useful once you get past the starter LAV, then the starter LAVs serve as a great decoy for people who know how to use the better ones (i.e., your enemies expect a weak freebie and don't take you seriously until you've mowed half of them down). Have you had a lot of success with higher-tier LAVs?
2. Even when we had free dropships, people were using the more expensive ones because they were useful. If I recall, most of the ones using free dropships were snipers trying to get to remote locations. People using the dropships to fight or move troops were usually paying for something better.
Thrillhouse Van Houten wrote:I suggest a somewhat simple fix that might have people screaming foul. Don't take the free LAV away. Make it slower and take away its weapon and add a third seat. Most people who argue to keep the LAV in this thread all seem to have one thing in common: they all use the free LAV as a personal transport. Since few people suggest that the Light ASSAULT Vehicle is good for much else (as in, you hardly do much assaulting in the thing just fly to location and ditch out upon arrival), make the starter LAV a simple quick transport vehicle.
To evolve this idea--add a variant that squad leaders can call in, called "LTV" (transport), and instead of 3 seats, it has 4 (so you can take your whole squad with you). I think you'd be surprised how much this could cut down on the number of vehicles called. Currently the only way to transport your whole squad is to spawn a dropship, and most people don't want to spend that money just to get from A to B. We can then make any LTV spawns beyond the first one require a token war point expense (say 100 WP).
We'd have to re-think this if we get larger squads, though. |