DUST Search - I want to know what's so technically difficult about adding WP for pilots?

Skyhound Solbrave wrote:

Nguruthos IX wrote:

Skyhound Solbrave wrote:

To be fair, it isn't that easy. If pilots got points for MCRUs, so would all the other vehicles. Why is that bad? Well then you don't even have to be a dedicated pilot to slap one on a viper and hide it on top of a building close to an objective and bank on free WP

Dude, you can just fly a viper 150k viper up on any building you want and drop R9 uplinks if you wanted to do that.

Why screw an entire profession. I mean, role, because we constantly go in the hole doing our job.

Don't get me wrong, I want to be a pilot myself. However, a better way has to be devised than MCRUs. Drop uplinks are not permanent and can be taken out with a couple of shots. A parked dropship is permanenr and if its parked well enough, will cost another dropship to waste to get up there and blow up. Provided of course the dropship already up there doesn't blow you up first. Seriously, MCRU points are too easily exploitable, there has to be another way.


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Nguruthos IX Hellstorm Inc League of Infamy 352	Posted - 2013.05.11 21:53:00 - [1] - Quote Know that line of code where a player spawns into the MCRU? //Here's where you add + some WP to the vehicle owner Know that line of code where a player presses O and drops out of the 'dropship'? //Here's where you start a timer and give me some assist points for their kills or captures within a minute or whatever. The fact that we've been told this is coming for a year now and it hasn't been able to happen is beyond me. I truly cannot understand it. I'm not even raging I just want to know why. What crazy spaghetti code are you working with that makes this difficult to implement? Players: Your guesses here. CPM/CCP: A response at this point seems appropriate PS, if you're struggling to find the right balance of WP, err on the side of less and just give us a band-aid already so every single DS pilot can quit hemorrhaging ISK every single day they try to fly.
Nguruthos IX Hellstorm Inc League of Infamy 356	Posted - 2013.05.11 21:59:00 - [2] - Quote Basically is it hard to do? Do you not know how you want to do it? Or has this just been ignored ad nauseum?
Nguruthos IX Hellstorm Inc League of Infamy 357	Posted - 2013.05.11 22:19:00 - [3] - Quote NeoWraith Acedia wrote: WP should be added once they drop, not spawn. You get no points if you get blown up with 6 guys in your dropship. Well they how about they also add in that 'kick passenger' button we've also been asking for for a year. Because atm blueberries just accrue inside and I can't control that.
Nguruthos IX Hellstorm Inc League of Infamy 357	Posted - 2013.05.11 22:20:00 - [4] - Quote NeoWraith Acedia wrote: I-X-I wrote: Right now ANYONE can grab a militia uplink and throw it into the woods and let it accumulate WP. Yet if a pilot puts 2+ million dollar ship at risk for hovering over an objective we get nothing. We should get a HP buff too along with HAV's and LAV's. Drop uplinks are usually tactical locations, a Dropship in the middle of the sky with a forge gun aiming at isn't. I can get them to a good one though. especially if they're on voice comm. And most uplinks are just thrown wherever for some berry to get points afking, the way they're so terrified DS pilots might get any.
Nguruthos IX Hellstorm Inc League of Infamy 357	Posted - 2013.05.11 22:21:00 - [5] - Quote XeroTheBigBoss wrote: Let's please stay on REAL problems you dumb worthless pilots don't need no WP till REAL problems are fixed. ummmm. what?...
Nguruthos IX Hellstorm Inc League of Infamy 357	Posted - 2013.05.11 22:22:00 - [6] - Quote Skyhound Solbrave wrote: To be fair, it isn't that easy. If pilots got points for MCRUs, so would all the other vehicles. Why is that bad? Well then you don't even have to be a dedicated pilot to slap one on a viper and hide it on top of a building close to an objective and bank on free WP Dude, you can just fly a viper 150k viper up on any building you want and drop R9 uplinks if you wanted to do that. Why screw an entire profession. I mean, role, because we constantly go in the hole doing our job.
Nguruthos IX Hellstorm Inc League of Infamy 357	Posted - 2013.05.11 22:29:00 - [7] - Quote PS if that was an honest question I'll tell you why nobody would fly even a cheap ship to get WP through MCRU AFKing. The reason they won't is because they can't. It would never make them enough money to pay for the ship if they were parked anywhere, they'd lose 200k a match. And if they wanted to hover at flight ceiling...Well they can't AFK there. You have to constantly stabilize the ship from drifting into red line, turning over, or crashing into a mountain
Nguruthos IX Hellstorm Inc League of Infamy 360	Posted - 2013.05.12 00:08:00 - [8] - Quote Skyhound Solbrave wrote: Nguruthos IX wrote: Skyhound Solbrave wrote: To be fair, it isn't that easy. If pilots got points for MCRUs, so would all the other vehicles. Why is that bad? Well then you don't even have to be a dedicated pilot to slap one on a viper and hide it on top of a building close to an objective and bank on free WP Dude, you can just fly a viper 150k viper up on any building you want and drop R9 uplinks if you wanted to do that. Why screw an entire profession. I mean, role, because we constantly go in the hole doing our job. Don't get me wrong, I want to be a pilot myself. However, a better way has to be devised than MCRUs. Drop uplinks are not permanent and can be taken out with a couple of shots. A parked dropship is permanenr and if its parked well enough, will cost another dropship to waste to get up there and blow up. Provided of course the dropship already up there doesn't blow you up first. Seriously, MCRU points are too easily exploitable, there has to be another way. And so you have a timed cap. I don't think DS deserve to get zero reward for a year, because someone might hypothetically exploit half as well as a ground troop could.