Base Shield Idea

[Manuel Smith]

Ingame job, whatever. stop nitpicking.

He is only telling the truth bro.

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[Jaika]

Thank you.

His task would be to log in base defenses and turn on shields. Voilà...
-Proove it.
-You're contradictory: If there are still 80 players on the server, it means that at least one of them could be contracted by you as a Nightwatch. That ofc would mainly be a job for people that live in weird timezones.

Also the vulnerability would force players to either hide their bases, or construct them in populated areas near friendlies.
Cheers.

So 'coz i live in a "wierd time zone" that means it's better if i just become e Nightwatch? right? As i see this idea isn't the best and as it was already said this is just a game not a second life or something. And another thing: let's say you contacted me to be a security guy for your base, how i'm gonna know it when the base gets under attack? 'coz i don't want to sit around your base all the time i play. And there is no notification message when someone attack your base. Only the little green message when the base gets destroyed. Correct me if i'm wrong .

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There is no such thing as too much firepower.

[CommanderX]

The problem with bases at the moment is that they are unbelivable expensive, you must deliver alot fuel to it, what cost time and credits, and shield run out fuel fast, and it must be delivered practicaly every day.

Bases maintaining is unbelivable expensive, and even if base are popular now, it is only because they are new, and all want to test out jump drives and cloacking devices, but considering the price you need to pay, it is realy not worth it.

Basicaly if only in 1 day base wont be refulled, it will be destroyed for sure, and sooo much credits, time and efforts what faction put in it go waste.

Sure base can be fun, making factions fight one another over it, but not when it is so expensive.




Anyway here is a idea more suitable than your idea.

First off, reduce the base expenses, less fuel used by shield and less materials to repair it.

Secound, make base fully repairable, for example, when player die, it is character not get deletad, he just need to leave system for 4 hours, so why wont do it with bases.
Basicaly if base is destroyed, it will be unusable for 4 hours, and after 4 hours base wont work until delivery of repair materials will make it operational again ( just as long as repair material is not too expensive and avaible to deliver ).

And after this you can try to go out with idea how to nerf base shield so that players will more often fight over tham.

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[Narcotic]

Well... it's a nice idea. But somehow, I disagree with it.
And since I can't say why actually, I didn't voted.

I like it how it currently is.

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[Lusitano]

Well... it's a nice idea. But somehow, I disagree with it.
And since I can't say why actually, I didn't voted.

I like it how it currently is.

70% no
30% yes

[(ツ)]

Nop: it's 100% Foxy!





Know what? Screw my idea. Enough rage received. Probably devs are having their very own plans with shieldsystem...

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That biplane just shot down my jet!

[Trogdor]

No. In fact, [expletive] no.

Unless bases become so cheap to make that you can put one together in a day or two of trading, anything less than complete invulnerability is unacceptable.

You simply cannot guard a base 24/7. If I logged in one morning to find my base had been popped by a couple of twerps in the wee hours of the morning I think I would accidentally everything.

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[Knjaz]

Ok, a question - for how long period shield would activate?

What would prevent, say, a group of players from logging off 3-5 battleships in front of a base, armed with HMs and primaries only, and kill that base in... well, if you take primaries into account, it will be 7.380.000 damage per attempt/logon, if we use 3 heavy capitals that can fire 3 HMs at once and then continue with primares.

need only 4 of such attempts to kill a Core 4 base.

With just 3 caps, that is. If we bring in 5 caps, that will be 12.300.000 damage, and we will need only 2 attempts for Core 4 base. (was using primary guns with 12k damage in calculations)

[Syrus]

Dunno if this was already proposed, cba to read through the thread at the moment...

But my idea for the shield would be, to have the shield drain 1 unit of fuel every 30 to 60 seconds as standard ... BUT!
If the shield is attacked it will additionally drain a further amount of fuel every 10 seconds, depending on the damage during the last 10 seconds. There should be a lower limit to this, like, it needs to receive 100k damage before any additional fuel is drained (1 unit), and an upper limit which is like 10mio damage (100 fuel drained). So, every 100k damage drain 1 unit of fuel. (numbers not final, but you get the idea)

Would that be better?

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[JayDee Kasane]

Maybe idea is good. but hey: people spent 3 days to supply a base and built modules not to found it dead because of some noob-caps. it might be good within realism, but right now players meagaming to locate a bases of players and blow it just for lulz.
so my answer is no: untill we have less cost of construcing bases or re-build base afer its dead with not huge cash/time this thing must not be here.
or you need make strong weapons to prevent people kill a base in no time

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