Tank Building Templates/ and vehicle air drops

So one thing I think would be nice is giving experienced commanders the ability to micromanage there tank layouts , I know I submitted something similar to this a while back, but I feel it needed to be suggested again.

We have something like this already for players, but I feel its a little clunky

For example, say a commander wants to conserve resources, he can lock the vf and then from the commander view create tank layouts he wants his team to use.

- only making light tanks available.

- limiting the number of buildable arty tanks to two

-lock building heavies, unless the player uses the specific layout assigned by the commander.

This would not be limited to only the commander but the players could save there preferred tank layouts, or submit layouts to the commander that they wish for him to consider.

Now, if the commander is kicked, these restrictions will be moved,

Also these restriction should be easily removed, in case the commander wants to give the team free reign over there tank customization, but the templates he had created should still be visible to the player wen making there weapon layout decisions.

Air drop vehicles

Also the commander should be given the ability to drop specific vehicle from the air to groups where a vehicle cannot be built, but to offset the advantage of air dropping the vehicle the ability should be double the cost of the vehicle being dropped.

 

You and me, both.

 

Kind of hate this idea. Bad coms make bad decisions. Don't need a bad com restricting what can be built. Not everyone plays the same there is no one layout for all setup that works.

I do like the airdrop idea.

 

Yeah, this is truly a bad idea. I more often than not, have found poorly constructed or misconfigured tanks from comms. Everyone has they way of loading out their tanks, and if you have to play with someone else's tank loadout, it will diminish anyone's level of play.

 

I'd love that.

 

Maybe locking the vf and only allowing specific layouts would limit choice on the teams end, but currently you can only lock the vf completely and not in between. I would even like to take it a step further, and give the commander the ability to limit the tanks that can be built on a player to player basis, so when a commander says only XYZ and can have an arty tank it eliminates other players getting arty just because its there.

This adds a lot more strategy to matches because a commander can effectively manage where resources are spent. I would say the only change would be if the player has the wages let him build whatever he/she wants.

 

Arty was one of my concerns when writing the suggestions because of it's frailties, but also if the commander can construct a layout and lock or make it the preferred layout. New players would be less likely to build paper armored tanks. So they won't waste resources and time building a tank that will be easily destroyed mid game.

 

Unless this vehicle air drop thing doesn't actually air drop but teleport to a spot the commander selected, I doubt that will get implemented.

This feature also sounds exploitable to hell.

 

Scripted air vehicles can be done in the source engine. What can't be done is player controlled vehicles and doing physics correctly. Half-Life 2 had scripted air vehicles.

 

Restrict vehicle layout for BE so they can just build paper heavies with plasma MG.

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