Dopplers Defensive Idea(TM):Drop Pod Receivers

[Doppler]

The problem occured to me the other day as i was dropping into a hot battle on ishundar. Almost as soon as my pod landed i saw a guy outside repairing his deliverer, i got him but his two gunners smoked my tail good, nothing i could do about it. This got me thinking, i was coming down to helped our besieged defenders at the base. How about installing a sort of covered landing spot for friendly drop pods. THis whould allow owning empire troops to drop into the protected base SOI and shield them from roaming tanks and reavers. You could put it in central core of the building so that a personw hould never be exposed to hostile fire while landing. Personaly i think the mechanism could have its own backup generator so it can be operated even if theres no power to the base.

Perhaps not my clearest essay but what do you folks think?

[JakeLogan]

I like it but it won't be put in.

[Doppler]

Any particular reason?

[ChewyLSB]

I always thought the way drop pods worked was kind of dumb. In my opinion, you should only be able to HART into friendly, un-hacked SOI's.

[BigFreak]

It's like...the whole risk element. The manual or...somewhere official always said "Don't drop near roads that enemies may be on, cos that's retarded"...or something like that. Basically, there's a whole big tactical thing in just dropping, and inevitably it's sometimes going to be out of your control, or possible knowlege of there being enemies in the drop zone.

[ChewyLSB]

Originally Posted by BigFreak

It's like...the whole risk element. The manual or...somewhere official always said "Don't drop near roads that enemies may be on, cos that's retarded"...or something like that.

[Cryptica]

Originally Posted by BigFreak

The manual or...somewhere official always said "Don't drop near roads that enemies may be on, cos that's retarded"...or something like that.

Anyways, I see both points. I like the idea of having a "safe-zone" for HART drops, but I understand BigFreak's point. Maybe with a little tweaking this idea could be helpful.

[Kaymon]

Originally Posted by BigFreak

It's like...the whole risk element. The manual or...somewhere official always said "Don't drop near roads that enemies may be on, cos that's retarded.

I only enter the HART in an infiltration suit, and drop far enough off-roads that nobody will catch me.

[Lartnev]

I'm assuming that the reason you can't drop within an SOI is probably because it was buggy and went through the base.

[scarpas]

uhh... it wouldnt be worth the time and money... we need the devs to put in other things such as new weapons... weapons/vehices would be a much better thing to put in.

Edit: sorry if that didnt make sence, i just got back from rock climbing and cant think correctly.

[Doppler]

Ok heres always been my assumption, you cant drop into SOI's because the bases defense gridn whould light you a new one, which is why i think you should be able to drop into a freidnly base, give one more slight tactical advantage to the defenders.

[SilverLord]

I think that HART dropping now is really balanced. The only thing I would change is being able to drop closer to bases.

[scarpas]

Originally Posted by Doppler

Ok heres always been my assumption, you cant drop into SOI's because the bases defense gridn whould light you a new one, which is why i think you should be able to drop into a freidnly base, give one more slight tactical advantage to the defenders.

woah i couldnt figure out what you were saying for 2 minutes

[Batousai]

What if the Devs allowed vechs. to be HARTed in. something like a ATV or a Harrasser or maybe a Enforcer or something. Basiclly anything that can fit into the back of a Galaxy. It would be cool to see a Harrasser drop from the sky(in a Drop Pod of course) and start to wreck havock on the enemys below.

[Doppler]

Originally Posted by scarpas

woah i couldnt figure out what you were saying for 2 minutes

Sometimes when i'm tire i type like Ait'al and for that i apologize.