When did Farming Become an Entitlement?

SolLeks · Sep 23, 2013

UberBonisseur said: ↑

“That's not how it works.

Tank spam is overwhelming.
Usually the wave of 20 tanks coming your way will just EAT the damage until they reach your base.
You might be able to kill 10 tanks, but the 10 others are at your doorstep.
Worse, the bad, 0 cert 0 investment 1/2 tankers act as meatshields for the good one.

Thus the most devastating tankers manage get in a good position with ease while a dozen idiots are being focused instead.

The "resource cost" is barely an investment with separate resource pools.
Might be solved with the new system, but can't know for sure.

There is currently no downside to spawn a tank after capping a base; you're faster, you hit harder, and you have armor.
It's like a power-suit, an armored taxi.”

Like you said before though, 20 tanks can be countered by 20 infantry if they work together and the tanks have no inf support.

Infantry are the largest threat to everything in this game, tanks melt in any combat larger than 20 v 20 even if they are spammed. It does not work like you say because the only time there can be 20 tanks surrounding that base is when they have hundreds of infantry surrounding said tanks.

UberBonisseur · Sep 23, 2013

SolLeks said: ↑

“Like you said before though, 20 tanks can be countered by 2 infantry if they work together and the tanks have no inf support.”

When I feel like cert farming, I shoot the NC zerg rolling towards broken arch.
I call my friend with his Lancer. EVERYTHING DIES.

Yes it's overpowered.
Because:

-They don't see us
-They can't shoot us
-We hit their back

Otherwise, dealing with 20 tanks charging a base upfront with complete disregard for their lives - actually, they care, but just jump out before dying so the vehicle counts as an extra life - is near impossible; unless you use those "OP weapons" en masse.

Here's for a more detailled read:

UberBonisseur said: ↑

“
"AV TURRET ! AV TURRET ! AV TURRET !"

But waaaaaait just a minute before casting the first stone.
I'll expose the situation real quick:

So, we had a big fight going on around Tawrich Depot.
Using the powers that have been transmitted through my ancestral Nostradamus bloodline, I pretty much predicted the base was FUBAR and decided to leave. Now, in a Hannibalesque mood, I started reading the behavior of my enemies by gazing at their soul:
" Your job is to craft my certs, so I am not sure how well I should wish you. But I'm sure we'll have a lot of fun. Ta-ta, "U" "

So there I was, on the top of the world, with quite a bootylicious vista at my disposal.

Unfair isn't it ?
WELL LET ME TELL YOU YOUNG MAN, THE STORY OF THE CERT FARM THAT ENSUED.

This is the tale of my journey in the far lands of the south

And this is how the blue demons were summoned from the depths of hell:

So here you are, lecturing me about my guilty pleasure...

"Pleasure!? You steal men's Tanks, and make them your certs!"
The same could be said about all vehicles.

So here we are, about to cross the threshold.
Enter the belly of the whale, meet the goddess of truth and bring back the elixir to the rest of the world.

The ugly truth ?
Most players in a Tank are in fact not Tankers.

I pity those [2/2] who endure my wrath. But for the greater good, my punishment must be blind and absolute.
Can you simply deny the sheer ammount of 1/2 MBTs around you ? All those people who jumped in a tank, for the sake of driving to the next base in their armored taxi ?

If all those... overpowered G2G infantry weapons, and they truly are, were to be nerfed, what would happen ? Should we have to face this infamous blob of tanks by ourselves, using our armor-piercing Beamer ?

I can predict those who claim tanks should only counter tanks.

So, why isn't this happening already ?

It's simple:
Sometimes, a zerg just left a base with a MBT spawning, and rolls towards a base WITHOUT MBT spawn.
We're talking zergs here, no thought implied. We have a base full of infantry that has to deal with over a dozen of tanks. They won't bring their own tanks to the battle, they are too stupid for that.

What's the solution for all this ?!

It's simple Timmy.
Make sure spawning vehicles is deliberate

Make sure that anyone currently using a tank has been through some kind of high pass filter, leaving only the determined, glorious MBT master race using them. That filter can come under the form of spawning restrictions, in time or locations.
What kind of zerg would bother spend... 30 seconds driving a tank to the frontline from a base in the back ? Not a lot. What kind of zerg would wait 1 minute until he's able to spawn a tank in the base he just captured ? Not a lot. What kind of zerg is going to let someone else gun his tank ? Not a lot.

You get the idea; now begin the stoning.”

IOwnblueacre said: ↑

“No this is not fun. But infantryside isn't really either. Just raise the cost of vehicles and refund certs already in vehicle cooldown. At 500-550 a player can really only pull 1 tank every hour, or if he/she wants 2 asap, 30 minutes between 2 tanks. Same with ESFs. We can avoid mass tank columns everywhere without turning tanks into dedicated sundy hunters.”

The resource system is broken, don't expect to fix anything with it

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