Cloaks in basing

[Izor]

Don't know how well it would actually work, but instead of having a warbird perhaps people should use a weasel. Since the weasels in basing games are the useful oldschool ones, they have a couple benefits.

1) They can pretty much suicide rocket the terr without anyone noticing them (other than the terr). The terr will probably have to whiff a portal to escape, and the spiders can then polish him off.

2) In a cram, he can shoot bullets down to mid every so often, and act as a sort of safety for your shark rotation, should they fuck up because of his repel. If the enemy manages to kill the 2 sharks he can rep them once which will hopefully be long enough for one of the sharks to respawn.

3) It could possibly add some confusion among enemies who don't know how to deal with it, depending on how effective it is. And confusion is one of the best ways to gain an advantage.

It looks like it could work on paper, but then again so does communism..

[Nethila]

cloak is useless in a real basing game. with the amount of spider bullets firing in the fr, there is no way a cloak and go and kill the terr.

cloak bullets are mad slow so they are basically useless in cram or against cram. But the rep does come in handy.

And with the new feature added to bots (twd), which announce the ship changes, everyone will be alert that there is a cloak, and the terr will just have x radar on. Remember, jav and sharks have x radar too.

[za gophar]

horrible idea. if you are lucky you might manage to get 3 td's directly or indirectly by a cloaker. you can do much better with a warbird. not to mention playing with a cloaker is basically 7v8..

[1ight]

I miss the old weasel with 1 repel. At least you could see em better, and "x clear" base. Good ol times..

[GHB]

weasels should have anti-warp, then there would be a good reason to use them

[Pan]

weasels should have anti-warp, then there would be a good reason to use them

Very true, but all a weasel would do is go to the roof hang out there and just make a perfectly good fr battle die. Fr battles is probaly what makes basing so much fun and using a anti-warp would kill it. Basing just doesnt have a use for a cloaker.

[Ewan]

Maybe an anti warp that drains energy.

[Mobey]

Maybe an anti warp that drains energy.

damn straight

[Lucon]

The thing we need even more than this is just to have the weasel settings from ?go bigbase. Those settings kick ass. Also note that I know what I'm talking about, since I'm a weaselier.

[Bioture]

give the weasel antiwarp. I think this was brought up some time ago, but it would add more depth to basing (i.e. the weasel would be there just for the antiwarp) but then if the weasel is just going wander around outside base with anti on, then its annoying for the other team's terr to not be able to warp or for other ships to attach to the terr at a crucial time.

interesting idea tho.

[Lucon]

I dunno, that kind of disgraces the name of the weasel by having them be useless for anything but that.

[Jeansi]

A weas 1 tile large with 2 reps would already be useful. Maybe too useful when defending a cram.