Rule Clarification

[Tornadium]

I asked a mod in the game about the issue and I was told to report it. Not sure who exactly I'm meant to report it to so I figure I'll just make a thread here to discuss if this is meta or not.

So we had marines surround the ladders with barricades and throw dozens of items on top of the ladders to stop aliens being able to interact with the ladders (alt clicking at the time didn't work for at least two or three of us). This seems incredibly metagamey to me, not sure if it's against the rules or not but would like some clarification because it's hilariously effective against aliens if you cover all of the ladders in the time it takes for them to board.

Thanks.

[SpecialAgentOrange]

Putting tables around them wouldn't, but covering the ladders with items would be metagame. I might be wrong about the tables though.

[Dyne]

Pretty powergamey, same as aliens covering ladders with resin doors.
(in case you cover the tile with the ladder itself)

[Tornadium]

The barricades aren't the issue, it's just that you are literally stuck and unable to move and you can't interact with the ladders at all so you're basically dead.

[Egorkor]

well wasn't that guy a clever marine, throwing over a single pizza box and plasteel barricading the cargo ladder from all sides.
if anything, it's more on the powergame side o' thangs, but you know, aliens drop a ton of huggers right by the ladders, they nest and wall them and build checkerboards aswell. an example is the usual sulaco storm meme, and the halloween map we had, laddercamping was hilarious.
i'd say it's a legit tactic afterall, but that's not for me to decide.

[Tornadium]

well wasn't that guy a clever marine, throwing over a single pizza box and plasteel barricading the cargo ladder from all sides.
if anything, it's more on the powergame side o' thangs, but you know, aliens drop a ton of huggers right by the ladders, they nest and wall them and build checkerboards aswell. an example is the usual sulaco storm meme, and the halloween map we had, laddercamping was hilarious.
i'd say it's a legit tactic afterall, but that's not for me to decide.

More than a single pizza box, there were 17 items on the ladder.

[Varnock]

Saw this done with a turret waiting for them outside the barricades. It was pretty bullshit in my opinion.

[jalen earl]

Building and obstructing ladders is complete and utter crap. Its happening purely for powergaming purposes. Resin doors on ladders are in the same category.

No problem with barricades, though its shitty its still beatable and with looking up/down ladders now you shouldnt be falling for huggers

[sammoh]

Happened last night when we assaulted the Sulaco around 3am EST. Went up engineering ladder, covered in plasteel barricades. Couldn't click on the ladder. Half the hive followed me and we all stood in stunned and utter impotence as a marine wailed on us.

Then, I discovered I could kill the barricades and all was well. The pizza box shit and stacking items is metagaming and should be ahelped though because fuck that.

[apophis775]

Putting barricades is OK. Stacking shit is NOPE.

[Tornadium]

Alrighty, If It happens again I'll be sure to contact an admin about it.

Thanks!

[Surrealistik]

You don't need to stack shit anyways so long as you have 2 marines ready to fire with their rifles on burst mode, or a marine and a sentry on burst mode, or an emitter blasting the ladder tile; will kill/crit virtually anything coming up before it has a chance to go down the ladder again.