Was the CE system always like this?

[SilverLord]

Mine plus a boomer on top makes a bad day for a tank.

[Wrathchild]

Early in beta ACE deployables were limited per SOI. In other words, only 8 spitfires in one SOI, only 16 mines, etc.

I expect they changed that because...

...Potentially, one combat engineer could fill the entire world's SOIs with his deployables.
...Deployables wouldn't be usable outside a SOI, like to protect your AMS.
...Lots of potential for griefing as people would destroy other people's deployables so they could place their own.

[Nimbus]

Originally Posted by Otis

Anti vehicle mine? I can make one of those. 2 boomers + 1 mine. A MAG can hit about 3 of those and die.

Edit: Some friends of mine figured this out one time. We find a continent where are empire is losing, find a tower. Set up a shit load of turrets motions and mines, hack it, then talk shit to the enemy to get them to come. We get more xp at those towers then getting a full base cap. The most beautiful thing I've seen in planetside was yesterday. Since the turrets have been buffed, we make sure those stay up. We had a field of turrets consisting of 4 CE's maxing out on turrets. In comes a reaver. It makes it about 10 kilometers in. All the spits fire simultaneusly. All the little red beams looked like a laser show. The reaver was dead before it even made half way.

Thats a good idea.