Ping Ponging Aliens needs to go

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Ping Ponging Aliens needs to go

Post by Daisuke08 » 10 Feb 2016, 13:53

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary): Make it so when aliens arrive in the drop pod, the marines cannot immediately send it back so they can stall and build or rebuild hangar defenses for the entire round

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole): This makes it so Marines can't loophole building defenses in the hangar before aliens arrive by sending them back whenever they arrive so they have an excuse to build them. Letting this tactic be a thing only promote marines retreating with 75% of their men and then waiting in a hangar playing tower defense knowing full well they oocly have the advantage over aliens when they do this.

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc): When the dropship arrives after the alarm where the queen has access to the console goes off, make the dropship have a cooldown of a few minutes on the marines consoles so there's enough time for the battle to play out rather, avoiding the scenario where marines give up the planet and send the ship back over and over before the aliens get the chance to break past marine defenses so they can rebuild and make more.

Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it): Either have it possibly become a feature or just generally be a rule.

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Re: Ping Ponging Aliens needs to go

Post by Sargeantmuffinman » 10 Feb 2016, 14:04

There already has a 2 minute recharge for the shuttle launch.
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Re: Ping Ponging Aliens needs to go

Post by SASoperative » 10 Feb 2016, 14:04

This is already established. It is just aliens are not getting out in time. They have a solid two minutes to get out of the shuttle before marines can send it back.

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Re: Ping Ponging Aliens needs to go

Post by Daisuke08 » 10 Feb 2016, 15:16

Two minutes isn't very long. You need to keep in mind when this is going on, they're not only using the ship as cover but there are generally metal barricades that cover the exits with swarms of marines on both sides. So two minutes pass by very quickly when they try to break their way out while using the weeds on the ship to heal. Marines already have a huge advantage when defending the hangar, when they go out of their way to do this, their win condition becomes "hold the aliens off for two minutes every time they attack" which doesn't give aliens much of a chance. Because as it currently stands, they've only got two minutes to completely stomp the marines and gain control over the hangar otherwise they lose any momentum they have the moment someone tries out this tactic and those types of exchanges goes heavily the favor of marines. They should at least be punished when they abandon their main objective.

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Re: Ping Ponging Aliens needs to go

Post by apophis775 » 10 Feb 2016, 23:05

Denied.

There's a 2 minute timer already.

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