I know many people are complaining about air spam so why not add fuel to aircraft, it would decrease the time a plane can be killing and promote more strategic play. I'd also like it too be added to armor so they could then add fuel stations so people would fight over stuff other than the crown. Thoughts? Oh, for those who are going to say I'm ******** about air, I play a lot of air (Reaver) so now I'm not another ****** noob
Considering the average flight time of an average pilot in this game is all of 5 minutes (if they're lucky), I just can't see this being implemented any time soon (read: ever).
I think it could work yes most only last 5 mins but it could still help stop some of the spam in the air.
Well then they aren't good pilots, I spend 20-30 min in the air killing enemy ESF(s) and killing infantry with pods. Its not hard to stay in the air if you have flares.
Where would you add the fuel stations? I can run out of ammo pretty damn quickly and if the fuel stations are near the air pads where you'd think they'd be, what's stopping you from topping off your ammo and fuel at the same time? Fighters usually move back and forth from battle to fallback point.
Considering refueling will most likely be when they land on resupply pads, your suggestion is denied.
It's simple, make the reload pads for planes the fueling stations and allow engineers to refuel. Allow flight time based on speed, not time. The more you do, the more you loose. From there it's just a matter of fine tuning the numbers until air becomes more balanced in my opinion, but I know the problem is deeper then that and I don't have a full understanding.
Just from a logic standpoint any landing pad would also be able to refuel the craft that visit it. But if you wanted to make things harder i guess you could say that the fuel depot would only exist at tech plants. You could potentially even add a new vehical variant mid air refueling tanker for the galaxy or something.
Except I see ESF pilots hover all the time near Sunderers and reload towers to restock and head back into battle, losing only 10 seconds of their time. Now if they had to travel across the map to get to somewhere with actual landing pads, that would make a difference. Heck! Make it so they can only reload at these spots and the fuel solution won't even be needed.
no, you don't. ESF cant reload at tower.. not sure about reload sunder. And any decent pilot knows where the closest pad is. Takes 30 seconds generally.
Seeing as it'd refuel when it rearmed, and all the rocket weapons for an ESF have to be rearmed nonstop, I don't really see what this would accomplish.
