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Kiso Okami
Militaires Sans Jeux
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Posted - 2013.03.09 21:55:00 -
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Rasatsu wrote:Yes, when there's no CRU, the spawns should always be from orbit... The current state where people just appear is as immersion-breaking as fedo farm with pink elephants.
Well, tactical Drop Up-Links are lore-backed. They are wormhole tech.
But yeah, pretty much anything else that's not the MCC or a CRU should be a HALO drop. |
Kiso Okami
Militaires Sans Jeux
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Posted - 2013.03.09 23:02:00 -
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Iron Wolf Saber wrote:Kiso Okami wrote:Rasatsu wrote:Yes, when there's no CRU, the spawns should always be from orbit... The current state where people just appear is as immersion-breaking as fedo farm with pink elephants. Well, tactical Drop Up-Links are lore-backed. They are wormhole tech. But yeah, pretty much anything else that's not the MCC or a CRU should be a HALO drop. Would HALO be an appropriate term? I mean our suits have 0 atmo endurance of a few hours and capable of going on planets with no breathables.
HALO means "High-Altitude Low-Opening", meaning that you drop from anywhere high up and then up "parachute" (in this case activate inertia dampeners) at a really low point in the sky. HALO is a term relative to the location where you intend to land versus the altitude from which you exist the transport.
But in the interest of being a lorefag, I'll consider calling it other names, if only to see what term sounds the best. So let's see...
For "Orbital Drop"
- OD
- OrD
- ODrop
- OrDrop ("or drop", as in "you can use the CRU, the uplink or drop", lol)
For "Ordbital Drop Maneuver"
- ODM
- OrDMan
- OrDroM
- ODroM
For "Orbital Drop Operation"
- ODO
- OrDrOp (junctions, welp)
For "Orbital Insertion"
- OI
- OIns
For "Protected Orbital Drop"
- POD (HA!)
- PrO Drop (lol)
Hmm... let's make this different...
SOAP (Space Orbit interiA droP) - "Let's drop the SOAP on their asses!"
SAID (Stratospheric Altitude Inertial Drop) - "The fat lady SAID 'we're here'!"
meh... I think I'll let you figure out ever other idea... lol |
Kiso Okami
Militaires Sans Jeux
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Posted - 2013.03.09 23:10:00 -
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Tiel Syysch wrote:Cons:
- Doesn't stop spawn camping if I can watch you fall. Whether you're stuck in inertia dampener recovery or inside a drop pod, doesn't stop me from shooting you or positioning myself and having my crosshair on you before you're able to fight back.
- Allows even more nonsense of people on roofs, especially on buildings without ladders. I don't expect people to use it to get to the safest spot, rather to get to the dumbest spot they can possibly reach that would otherwise be inaccessible.
I do not like this idea, because I can't think of any pros that could outweigh the above.
That's you get to see where they are coming from doesn't mean that they couldn't be really hard to kill.
In the moment that it took everyone in IRC to argue against the idea, I came up with counters just as viable and possible within the New Eden universe.
One such thing could be drop pods giving you extended shields while you are in range of it to give you a chance of clearing anyone trying to camp you off. Would be like having a super charged shield for like 10 seconds that boosts you to have Heavy grade defenses even with militia gear for that given time.
They're not invincible, but that's certainly going to give them time to have a chance to simply turn around, point and fire back at whoever's trying to camp them off. |
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