Ranger Archive
Thread: the status of camps and an idea I just had...
My ideas for camp redesign include:
Sunsplitter wrote:My ideas for camp redesign include:
High Tech Field Base and Field Base Kit should be able to be attacked and disabled, repaired?. High Tech Field Base should have structure which can be entered. High Tech Field Base should have a small short range (15-25m), med/low impact turret (can be disabled). High Tech Field Base and Field Base Kit should not disband during combat.
Y'know, I thought of those exact same things yesterday. I was reading a set of patch notes looking for something, and I came across the part about being able to use a base turret manually. I thought that would be great for the High Tech Field Base.
Only problem I forsee is that (in my opinion) the turrets should ONLY be use-able in PvP, because there's always a chance people would try to exploit them for farming XP in PvE.
Yes, we can do both if were lucky but still. I would hate to constantly get bugged by money/xp grinders to build yet another camp they can use for 2 minutes then run off.
KaiRaene wrote:
Can you imagine the people that would bug you to constantly pull out a camp so they can get some missions. I think it would be better to have Rangers as walking mission terminals without payout. Afterall, we are supposed to be harvesting to sell resources.. not doing missions to get paid.
Well, first off I personally don't see my only role as a walking resource harvester. What's wrong about taking destroy missions that have animals as a target and getting paid for that? And since you can only set up camps in the wilderness, where you rarely meet people anyway, I doubt it will be a real problem to be bugged by people for setting up a camp because it's faster for them to just run back to a mission terminal than to find a ranger, start a converstation with him, meet him, most likely PAY him and wait until he has found a spot away from lairs to set up his camp. Also whenever camps will be made useful, no matter the features,it will hardly avoidable that people bug you about setting one up. I mean docsare bugged for buffs and wound healing, smugglers are bugged for slicing, crafters are bugged to make people stuff. So what's wrong about being bugged for providing people with services? It only shows that you finally have a skill that is actually useful.
The main purpose of camps, as I see it, is to provide people in the wilderness with things they normally only get in cities. And these things can basically be narrowed down to cantina, shuttleports, mission terminals, hospitals, bazaar and bank. Apart from the bank and bazaar I can see camps providing all these services, with downsides if needed for balancing reasons.
- For example the "evacuation shuttle" only brings you to the nearest shuttleport, costs a lot of credits and you need to wait10 minutes for it.
- Entertainersshould be able to heal your mind wounds AND battlefatigue, but maybe at a slower rate than in cantinas (would make master dancers/musicians more desireable than dabblers).
- For the hospital thing first off the way droids work needs to be changed. Because I am a fan of droids and got a master DE on another server, I would like to see them remain useful. But the bonus of a hospital/camp and droid should stack. Hospital maybe +20%, camp +10% and droid +10%. So if you use a droid and are in a camp you would get a total of +20%, while you would only get +10% with a droid outside a camp/hospital.
- For missions to show up on the terminal the camp might needs to stand a certain amount of time
And I think everyone agrees with me that camps should be a bit more permanent. Combat shouldn't disband them and I would even say they stay while you are on the same planet and logged on. What's the problem with that anyway? I mean the way xp is gained from camps needs to be tweaked a little of course, but the way people are grinding camping xp right now is ridiculous anyway.
Personally I really miss the downtimes from the early days where my group would set up a camp to heal up. Where I got asked "could you please set up a camp Norik". I had the most fun conversations in camps back then. But then again I am a socializer and roleplayer, so I don't mind a little downtime at all. And I dislike running from mission to mission like headless chickens when doing group hunts these days.
Ah well...