FYI

Getting hitched Saturday! Traveling tomorrow through September 13th. Intend to check in on you Bastards when possible. She completely ignored our suggestions and selected Playa del Carmen. Bermuda was a close second, Sinboto :-)

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Or rampant with illness and bad crabsGǪ.

Or full of cannibal rats that will land in Britain and decimate the country!

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https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=980336#post980336

Look at that, IWS.

There's a Dev saying my idea is doable.

What was my idea, you ask? Well, let me remind you! I posted it in the Delta narrative thread. And here. The idea is to get rid of the red line.

Ambush has a universal red line. Beyond it, neither side can go.

It also has spawn points CCP put in for Team 1 or Team 2.

Skirm and Dom have no Team 1 or Team 2 spawn points, they have MCC, Ground and CRUs.

The purpose of the MCC and Ground spawns being in the red zone for the enemy team is to prevent spawn camping/griefing, obviously. Get rid of it. CCP did it wrong.

The answer is to have MCC and Ground Spawns, CRUs, AND Ambush-esque dynamic spawns for Team 1 or Team 2. If CRU is camped and there are no uplinks and no objectives are controlled by your team, smart deploy. Now there's no such thing as red line snipers - anywhere a player can snipe from, the enemy can get to him/her. Now there's no such thing as a team being 'red lined', which is frustrating and not fun for the side getting stomped. So nobody on the whole team can manage to get out to get uplinks down somewhere to get the team back into the fight? Smart deploy.

And, by his response in that Ambush OMS game mode thread I linked, CCP LogicLoop pretty much says they CAN do this.

But you're not even going to bring it up to them, are you?

Cross Atu probably wouldn't either. None of the CPM will, I bet.

You'd all probably rather just ride the QQ train straight to nerfland and make sniping in general an unviable play style.

Here's where you get a chance to not be a self-serving douche with your CPM appointment.

I dare you.

EDIT: It just occured to me a tank or ADS could rush to the enemy MCC/Ground spawns right at the outset of a match and make it impossible for the enemy to even get a start. The solution? Start the match with red lines as they are, put it on a 120 or 180-second timer, then roll the redline back to the Universal Red Line. This gives both teams a chance to get their initial LAV/Tank/Derpship deployments sorted out. Then the battle begins in earnest. Call it a limited period of time where both sides are on extra-high alert during team mobilization - after which both sides are so focused on completing their objective that neither can spare the resources to make sure anything that crosses beyond a certain point dies within 20 seconds.

Anyways CPM Zatara supposedly talked to you guys about removing cloaks and according to him was a positive response. While I would love to read all 1076 pages of the barber shop I really don't have the time can you guys confirm his story?

If he was alive when he spoke to you, it was obviously a lie.

If you ever see his body just laying around this thread, he might have actually tried.

I don't recall him discussing this, and I certainly would have adamantly argued against removal.

Anyways CPM Zatara supposedly talked to you guys about removing cloaks and according to him was a positive response. While I would love to read all 1076 pages of the barber shop I really don't have the time can you guys confirm his story?

Something something GHOST IS IN HIS CORP something something

I wonder where he may have got that idea. I've been vehement about cloaks for awhile now.

He might not have talked to the barbershop, but I have mentioned it to him at more than one time.

So instead of saying he spoke with one regular with regard to their opinion, he extrapolated that all others would be of like mind, and then claimed that he spoke with all of us on the matter?

You may want to have a kind word with him about getting ahead of himself. He is a CPM and must be held to a higher standard now.

They can remove cloaks if I'm unscannable with only a single damp

Also, wed need passives removed, but scouts getting a range buff to 45m with max passives

Anyways CPM Zatara supposedly talked to you guys about removing cloaks and according to him was a positive response. While I would love to read all 1076 pages of the barber shop I really don't have the time can you guys confirm his story?

Uhm you do realize CCP Logic Loop is gone and he was making his post in the context that client side updates were being done.

CCP Logibro already affirmed that reposition structures and moving the redline would require a client bake.

The idea of moving things around, redline, and new game mode is still on the wish list of things that require a client update for.

Now on the other hand CCP Logic Loop did manage to fix redlines several times mostly involving railgun tanks having full coverage of any spawn point.

I don't even understand the reason for that.

Apparently it was spam. I looked up their rules on spam, and all of it includes multiple infractions, not a single instance.

I have since appealed it, seeing that the time for the infraction was more severe than it should be.

FYI

Getting hitched Saturday! Traveling tomorrow through September 13th. Intend to check in on you Bastards when possible. She completely ignored our suggestions and selected Playa del Carmen. Bermuda was a close second, Sinboto :-)

o7

@ How to fix cloak

My two cents:

1) Add 1-2 second delay between decloak and action, such that a decloak sequence is fully removed from attack sequence.

2) Add distinctive decloak sound effect and/or increase volume, such that deckoaking too close to an enemy will alert him.

3) Dial down "shimmer" such that cloak not be reduced to poop by dark map or mood.

4) Deplete cloak reserves when fluxed (if possible without client update).

Just recieved my confirmation email that my copy of Destiny has been sent...

I'm not talking about moving any structures and I'm not talking about new game modes.

Smart Deploy was improved in a hotfix, wasn't it?

I'm not going to believe that simply adding Smart Deploy-style dynamic spawn points to Skirm and Dom and changing the Skirm/Dom redlines to the Universal Ambush Redlines requires a Client Update until I see it from Logibro or Rattati.

Which I won't.

Because none of you CPM people will even suggest it to them.

You missed out on when you could place images, even GIFS! in your signature line.....they fixed that in a couple hours....its was sad. Its amazing how quickly they can fix "problems" and how long it takes to implement real improvements.

So instead of saying he spoke with one regular with regard to their opinion, he extrapolated that all others would be of like mind, and then claimed that he spoke with all of us on the matter?

You may want to have a kind word with him about getting ahead of himself. He is a CPM and must be held to a higher standard now.