Development Cycle Archive

TH:

As many others said, we need admin control. As I'm in charge of raids as well as base defenses for my guild, I can't afford to have to direct everyone every thirty seconds (people forget things in battle for some reason) NOT to take control of the turrets. Costly mistakes are often made during raids, and I would prefer that turrets going haywire from five different people trying to control one gun not be one of them.

Also, why do defense and damage enhancements have to wait? It's just a few numbers in the code, is it not? I'm all for the advancement of this game as quickly as possible to make up for lost time in the past, but really, we need to make sure the major publishes are working fully and completely before we move on. Try to get that message through to the Devs asap

The ham and damage output of turrets is part of a problem with all machinery in swg, a single person should be easy meat for them because of the size of the weapon mounted on em. Only specific profs should be able to damage a hard turret. I wouldnt expect a sword or vibro knuckler to do any damage at all. A rocket launcher maybe. The speed of said weapons that can damage the turret should be limited so even a group of ten commandos firing rockets wouldnt get through without a few casualties.

The ones stating that turrets need to do more damage are assuming that everyone attacking has +80% Comp armor. That isnt the case. In fact, upping the damage to a murderous amount will just discourage PvP more. Doing this will simply kill off attackers in mear moments. No one wants to attack a base when it is impossible to win.

A possible solution to that is to greatly knock down the accuracy on the turrets, but increase its damage. Turrets are slow and clunky, and horrible anti-personnel weapons (just ask any tank gunner).

Upping the HAM is a good idea though. Only problem is that no matter what you up the HAM to, its still destroyable. Yes, it will take longer to do, but turrets will still get killed (it is crutial that they are killable or, once again, base PvP will stop).

Lets look at the root problem... its obvious thatthe waythings are now, no one thinks turrets are worth the FPs spent to place them. It takes a while to build up 9k FPs to buy one, and placing just one is stupid. It will get wasted in no time. People tend to place 2 at a time so they can cover each other... so thats 18 FPs each time. The cost is not worth the benfits.

This being the case, why dont we just lower the FP cost of the turrets? This way, they will be easier to replace. It will keep the PvPers coming back for action (which is the only real reason for owning a base honestly), it will keep the base owners happy because they can continue to replace defenses when needed, and it will not inspire more people to become super-duper uber-l33t power-players.

Our turrets at our bases got taken out.
One attack was stopped becasue the manual targeting helped loads.
The second time no one was there, and what did the turrets do while being attacked, at all ranges? Didley

They dont target on their own anymore at allm so dont fire at all.

Turret realities:

1) Need to be an Officer (Warrant II at least)

2) They either do not fire, or do not fire as much when unmanned.

3) You do NOT need to be the owner to use them.

For those of you calling a turret a joke, you have not fought one that was manned by a player. When it is manned by a player this is what it can do

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=69609

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=69610

BTW on the pictures above you must scroll to the right to see the combat log, and yes the turret shot him 24 times in one second