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Laheon
Osmon Surveillance
Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.04.06 13:38:00 -
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In the interest of seeing the game develop, has anyone heard anything about this? As in, will there be the opportunity to be in the war barge (NOT MCC) between battles, instead of hiding alone in the Merc Quarters? Just wondering, as other MMO's have a similar system, as in a "guild HQ". Customisation would also be fun.
It can also lead to a few meta-game "features" which could be really interesting.
Just in case people don't know the difference, the war barge is where things are deployed from - they normally orbit the planet, and have MCCs, HAVs, DS's, etc in them. The war barge is where you are before the match starts, where there's the holo map and the player lists.
If the corp has to buy war barges and pilot them to a system where they want to fight (fairly realistic), that means that the war barge has to have the players who want to fight on them before leaving the rest of the "fleet". Let's say that corp A wants to assault corp B's planets. It would have to physically send a war barge across to corp B's system, loaded with HAV's, DS's, LAV's, equipment etc, into orbit around the planet it would want to assault. Last I heard, war barges won't be able to be blown up by pilots in EVE.
It would cause some degree of meta game escalation. I send a war barge with infantry equipment, militia vehicles, nothing too expensive. I lose it all for next to no loss on your end, so I pack it with more advanced gear, such as a gunnlogi and proto weapons, or I could send two war barges and have them both assault a district each, at the same time.
Just a thought that occurred to me. It'd expand the meta-game into more strategic areas, a little bit like EVE. |
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Opus Arcana
Orion Empire
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Posted - 2013.04.06 14:20:00 -
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But wouldn't it be unfair to make it invincible I mean Eve players don't get that privelage why should we? |
Cody Sietz
The Tritan Industries
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Posted - 2013.04.06 14:50:00 -
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It would be cool, just to be able to mingle.
It would also be cool if it could be exploded (tho I'm not sure what purpose it would serve, besides to annoy people and waste isk...but then no one would buy it I suppose...) |
Reav Hannari
Red Rock Outriders
Red Rock Consortium
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Posted - 2013.04.06 14:56:00 -
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I think this was mentioned a long time ago and is probably still on the todo list, just low priority. |
Vyzion Eyri
The Legion Academy
ROFL BROS
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Posted - 2013.04.06 14:58:00 -
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Couldn't there just be a giant factory within the war barge which produces whatever needs to be produced? If nanite technology is so advanced that it can recognise and refill ammunition almost instantly, and repair/resuscitate damaged/fallen mercenaries, there's a way to alter matter on a greater scale to make vehicles?
As for vulnerability in eve, perhaps they could be extremely tank and have huge regeneration rates and when destroyed they explode, killing everything around it. Since it'd require quite a bit of ISK and effort and teamwork to destroy the war barge just to get blown up, not many people would want to try it unless its a srs bsns battle. |
Laheon
Osmon Surveillance
Caldari State
418
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Posted - 2013.04.06 16:11:00 -
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Vyzion, a similar argument to that could be made with regards to ships in EVE... Why not just buy the nanites and have a constant stream of ships going out, instead of mining? Anyway. Would render a lot of the player-driven market obsolete.
I'm not saying make it "invincible", just impossible to target from EVE. Might still have the option to blow it up from ground installations (e.g. what we saw in one of the trailers, where a moros got blown up), but not by EVE ships.
Or could have it to be a ship (since it'll be PC, in 0.0), require a carrier to "release" near a planet? This will require EVE players and DUST players to work together. Obviously by this advanced stage of development where we might even see these things, DUST players will be able to sell things to EVE players that can only be made on the planet surface. And EVE players will need planet districts to hold full sov. Or something. |
DUST Fiend
Sinq Laison Gendarmes
Gallente Federation
2356
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Posted - 2013.04.06 16:13:00 -
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Screw that, I want to be able to build a fortress on a planet and use it as HQ, everything from kicking back and shooting the ****, to defending your territory, and shooting the ****  |
Yani Nabari
One-Armed Bandits
Atrocitas
17
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Posted - 2013.04.06 16:58:00 -
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I'd personally prefer planet side command centers.
Then have the ability to field space ships that the mercs can man and fly through space, targetable, destroyable, and defendable.
But that would require some wonkyness to be figured out  |
Fingal Senga
Anonymous Killers Mercenary Corporation
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Posted - 2013.04.06 17:18:00 -
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Yeah there was talk about this at the last fanfest but it is way down on the todo list. Of course you could always just get a PS Home club house for now and play dressup there |
Valkreena Haederox
Royal Uhlans
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2013.04.06 19:11:00 -
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Yani Nabari wrote:I'd personally prefer planet side command centers. Then have the ability to field space ships that the mercs can man and fly through space, targetable, destroyable, and defendable. But that would require some wonkyness to be figured out
You're describing EVE now. |
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