(06/2009 - 08/2009 ) General Discussions [Closed]

Hmmm cheese is anything but useless! In NM when your on your own finding 1-2 bits of cheese keeps you at full hp, even on norm its nice for an extra 50hp after you used both of them.. I like sath's idea of a current Resistance % when you type in -mystats though... kind of like the move speed counter

what could implemented with a -mystats event

experience points ( no comments )
health points ( no comments )
move speed ( no comments )
hits count ( no comments )
poison count ( each time you have been poisoned -> integer +1 )
poison resistance ( each time you have used antivirus -> integer +1 )
fractures count ( each time you have been badly hit -> integer +1 )
fracture resistance ( each time you have eat cheese [calcium food] -> integer +1 )
kills number ( no comments )

I m sure there are a few other variables that could be added



An other thing i wanted ask .. its when a player call bfcontrol action like medivac or else ... a string that say something like this:

" Major player blah blah , has resquested Medivac support "

so we can know who's the moron that wasted the mana of the support

Yeah thats actually a good idea for the Medivac and stuff.. maybe like "This is (Rank) (Player Name) Requesting A Medivac" when its used?

Unfortunately that is not possible. The Battlefield Terminal is a unit owned by a neutral player which the players have shared unit control to. That means that all casted abilities are also casted by that neutral player, no matter who activated it.
The problem lies within the shared ability cooldowns..

I don't think the cool downs are that big of a deal.. I mean think about it.. if you have a full group of 8 that can each call in a helicopter? you could basically have one coming in for like 5 minutes of constant cover... which makes no sence.. I think it makes sence to have a shared cool down ^^ artillery shells take time to refill afterall lol and the chopper needs to refuel.. or.. just send another one considering they all explode lol

Yes, this is why I want to have shared cooldowns. But without a global terminal there are no shared cooldowns^^

True... Unless you give each seperate class its own terminal with unlockable skills based on exp but that would just be too much work and would still leave a balance issue.. I dunno s3r .. if it ain't broke dont fix it?

Can u allow ppl to give control ? for w/e reason ppl need to go afk for short period of time ?

aChiiies wrote:Can u allow ppl to give control ? for w/e reason ppl need to go afk for short period of time ?

I don't think this is a good idea. Giving control means you gain the Field of Vision of that player giving your character a larger area of attack. Think of all players having each others vision.

aChiiies wrote:Can u allow ppl to give control ? for w/e reason ppl need to go afk for short period of time ?

The only time you gain control of other players is when they leave. The reason for that is a certain degree of realism and to encurage people not to go afk.

Plus its annoying to hit tab that many times! lol anyway this was mentioned in another post (bf control) but I figure I would add a twist to it and put it in the ideas thread.. what about giving the Scout the ability to ping the closest Weapons in his area (lets say 800-1000 range in total) yellow pings for secondary and maybe.. red pings for Primary weapons.. maybe if you max his recon skill or w/e (thinking of the beta v I played where both his 3rd and 4th skills had like 6 abilities in each) perhaps if that works...

I think Scout's skill book is filled to the last slot ^^"
I gave the Scout the ability to carry any weapon (although he might not be able to use it). Should make him a little better in terms of supplying the team with weapons.

as long as he can't use the fuel cells to give him more ammo ^_^

lol that would be kinda strange but I like that idea s3r now he is really a scout instead of us having to try and get to where he saw the weapon =/

No worries, the Scout cannot use any item not fitted for his class. And yea, he plays much better with that. It's just great to be able to pick up anything you find

Could you give him more inventory slots? 6 just isnt enough lol.

hahaha that pushing the game limits I think we should be happy that the scout is finally smart enough to strap a weapon to his back that he cant use xD

Scout received a backpack which increases his max. number of slots to 10. 5 of them are suited to carry any weapon or item. The other 5 is normal inventory like anyone else has it.

hmmm can u add different voice for each classes ? XD

so like firebat = firebat voice if that is possible in b7

Just a single sound set already eats up ~200kb of map space. Having a few more wouldn't do much except of adding another megabyte to the map.
I'd add a whole lot of stuff if everyone had a broadband connection..

carrying any weapon will be awesome for the scout, as if another player has to come to where he saw it, it kind of eliminates the point of the scout

Cool 10 invent slots!! Damn imagine him carrying 10 Grenade Launchers in RL lmao.

I was just thinking, instead of deleteing the xxx has been promoted to yyy at the beginning when players load, you could just edit it so that sergeant Madigan says a randomated message every time someone loads, and different randomations for different ranks.
E.G:
Lower Ranks
Move out xxx yyy
Get going xxx yyy
We havent got all day get a move on xxx yyy

Mid Class

xxx yyy, Great to see you again
Roger that, move out xxx yyy
On the double xxx yyy, thets see what you got

General

I am honored to see you on the battlefield General yyy
I will move the squad out immediatly General yyy

inbetween general and mid class is officer

Officer

Good to see you on the team xxx yyy
Glad you could join us xxx yyy
Good of you to come along xxx yyy

good idea, but lol a bit cheap for the officers lol

he is only a sergeant after all, he would be lukcy to serve with a higher ranked officer at all and he would be a little more formal and grateful to serve with a major/colonel.