Weapon Platforms

[Aingar]

Not sure if it's more a balance problem or exploit, but currently weapon platforms are close to useless, for the following reasons:

1. Blind zone directly below/above them.
2. You can subtarget and kill off the turrets, effectively disarming them for as long as nobody blows them up.

Other than that, they're fine.

While you can remedy 1. by adding more turrets, second problem is much more critical, I can guess it's not inteded, since sooner or later it will become a common knowledge and combat value of WP's will be close to none.

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[Lennox]

Weapon platforms are not capable of doing all the defence alone. There always have to be your own force around as well to strike down the enemy. Weapon platforms alone are pure support. Don't expect they should do all the job alone for people not being able to log or for whatever kind of reasons.

Because you will notice, the enemy won't have much time to take those weapon platforms out while they are attacked by your own force. Think about it. You would rather shoot on other players than on respawning platforms you cannot tear apart one by one in terms of the weaponry if you know what I mean.

Always make sure there is a little 'fleet' stationated near your base, so you can let the platforms support you.

[AeternusDoleo]

The current turrets weren't the ones intended to be pushed out there. There will eventually be 3 types:
The current long range ones, which have 4 BS pulse and 2 BS Cerbies
A midlevel one with 2 cruiser pulse, 6 BS secondaries and 2 cruiser cerbies (this one was supposed to have been the first released and this will be fixed come the next update(
A shortrange "jumphole surprise" with 2 BS Razors and 8 Solaris.

Since you can rotate them on any axis by their coordinate setup, the blindspots can be fixed by overlapping fields of fire. How you want to set them up is your own business.


Blowing the guns off is an unintended way to disable platforms and has been reported as a bug. Fix is pending. If the base is green to you, you can blow up platforms with a missing gun to have them respawn with their full arament. This will raise the base shield but the base itself and the guns will not go hostile to you.

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