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Old 2012-04-13, 01:58 AM   [Ignore Me] #1
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Homing Beacon for Vehicles


I wasn't sure if this had been mentioned in the past, but I always thought a homing beacon would have made a nice little feature back in PS1. The way I imagined it was that if you happened to find yourself separated from your vehicle, you could click a button that would send the vehicle to you without a driver; maybe some type of autopilot? In PS1, I had a tendency of being on the opposite side of the continent when my Mosquito was on the other. The homing beacon could have been useful, especially if I had a timer.

This isn't really an important feature, but if PS2 has similar mechanics in this regard, I could find it useful.

Last edited by basti; 2012-04-16 at 09:24 AM.
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Old 2012-04-13, 12:19 PM   [Ignore Me] #2
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Re: Homing Beacon for Vehicles


Maybe as a cert with limited range.
We don't want computer-piloted mosquitos clogging the sky.
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Old 2012-04-13, 05:01 PM   [Ignore Me] #3
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Re: Homing Beacon for Vehicles


How on earth Auraxis did you walk to the other side of a continent from where you left your ride?
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Old 2012-04-13, 05:26 PM   [Ignore Me] #4
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Re: Homing Beacon for Vehicles


its your fault for leaving it that far away lol
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Old 2012-04-14, 10:15 AM   [Ignore Me] #5
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Re: Homing Beacon for Vehicles


Originally Posted by Talek Krell View Post
How on earth Auraxis did you walk to the other side of a continent from where you left your ride?
By being a passenger in a galaxy, by gunning a tank, by instant actioning, by hart dropping, etc.
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Old 2012-04-14, 01:44 PM   [Ignore Me] #6
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Re: Homing Beacon for Vehicles


The answer to this is very simple. Get another one.
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Old 2012-04-14, 03:12 PM   [Ignore Me] #7
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Re: Homing Beacon for Vehicles


since vehicles costs resources now they might not be as disposable, but the vehicle can just be marked on your map.
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Old 2012-04-14, 05:05 PM   [Ignore Me] #8
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Re: Homing Beacon for Vehicles


Originally Posted by Juniata View Post
By being a passenger in a galaxy, by gunning a tank, by instant actioning, by hart dropping, etc.
why not use use those to get back!
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Old 2012-04-15, 05:32 PM   [Ignore Me] #9
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Re: Homing Beacon for Vehicles


I have to think that if you've gone off intstant actioning then honestly, you've shifted gears so much that it makes more sense to have you just pull a new one. HART dropping would involve leaving the continent first, so the thing would have auto-deconstructed anyway..

If you just want a way to reclaim some resources from a used vehicle then I think it would make more sense for deconning to give you a partial refund.
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This is the last VIP post in this thread.   Old 2012-04-15, 06:23 PM   [Ignore Me] #10
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Re: Homing Beacon for Vehicles


This was never a problem for me or anyone I knew in PS1.
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Old 2012-04-15, 06:26 PM   [Ignore Me] #11
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you know that there is currently no hart right?

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Old 2012-04-17, 09:02 AM   [Ignore Me] #12
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Re: Homing Beacon for Vehicles


I see no need for this, but I don't see the harm in it either. Better yet, have whichever vehicle you own be permanently shown on your world map/continent map, with an arrow pointing which way it is on your minimap (with a toggle option to remove it from your minimap if you don't want it obstructing any of your view).

Seems like it would be easy to add and may help disoriented noobs. The more you help noobs without ruining the rest of the game, the more percentage of them will stick around to shoot at and, just maybe, even start learning to be decent players.
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Old 2012-04-17, 10:41 AM   [Ignore Me] #13
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Re: Homing Beacon for Vehicles


Originally Posted by Purple View Post
you know that there is currently no heart right?
HART. ( High Altitude Rapid Transport )
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Old 2012-04-17, 11:31 AM   [Ignore Me] #14
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Old 2012-04-18, 09:32 PM   [Ignore Me] #15
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Re: Homing Beacon for Vehicles


Just have your vehicle display on the pull up map. I think it will be useful.

Park your mossie outside, join the base fight, walk out and you don't have to sort through the many other aircraft. With physics and the fact that pilots normally push other pilots planes off pads so they can land this does make sense.
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