how to make weasels useful in basing (2 EASY STEPS!)

[sTuPiD-gErBiL]

1) make xradar cause energy drain on terriers

2) shrink weasels down and allow them to fly through holes (think of starcon)

boom, just that simple.
go throw it in a test arena and give it a try.

[za gophar]

ew, then there would be a bunch of pussy cloakers running around. that shits fucked up, there is NOTHING i hate more than being cloaked. getting a good bounty or record would be impossible. once i had an arguement over whether some cloaker was a newbie or not and i was saying that his ship was shit cause you cant do anything about being cloaked if u dont have x radar. so i switched teams and flagrantly tked him and said "u didnt see THAT coming did u?" i dont think the message got across to him but it was still entertaining.

actually on second thought if that solution were to be accepted i think that cloakers should not get stealth.

[Bigwig]

its a good suggestion. it also helps with the LT problem.

[Pearl Jam]

Za gopher doesn't like being killed by cloakers. Scrap the idea.

[za gophar]

booya!

[sTuPiD-gErBiL]

have you ever actually bothered flying a weasel? even if you're invisible, it's pretty pathetic.... especially if you're playing against people who know you're "somewhere" and don't suck at playing. it's only slightly faster than a lev and pretty much has a life-expectancy of firing one shot.

however, allowing such a weak ship to be able to sneak in without having to go through the famous bottleneck of death would keep teams on their toes. think of it as an assassin. it's primary role would be taking down the terrier, but since the terrier has draining xradar it still makes for a highly difficult (but not impossible) assassination. and you know full well that once you shoot, you're dead even if you kill the terrier or not.

[Mythrandir]

I liked the weasel settings as they were during april fools:

- shrunk to 1 tile
- energy decreased
- recharge rate increased
- when stealth and cloak are both turned on, it drains energy (though when either stealth or cloak is on, you gain energy)
- faster turn speed / acceleration
- faster bullet speed


It was really fun to play this ship, it can defend itself better when there's a terr with x-radar (just flee outside the base through one of the holes). And it's not impossible to kill for ships that don't have x-radar, because the weasel can only be fully cloaked for a few seconds.

[Troll King]

it'd be interesting if the weasel could sneak into the flag room from the hole in the roof...

[za gophar]

ew. that would change everything. trenchwars would never be the same. they should stay with their current settings. they make good levi hunters. its not too hard to fly a cloaker really, i got 160 bounty in one just last week on levis and people who hunted me alone. that sounds a bit hipcritical but i made sure not to kill anyone who didnt deserve a killing.

[sTuPiD-gErBiL]

Originally posted by za gophar
ew. that would change everything. trenchwars would never be the same. they should stay with their current settings. they make good levi hunters. its not too hard to fly a cloaker really, i got 160 bounty in one just last week on levis and people who hunted me alone. that sounds a bit hipcritical but i made sure not to kill anyone who didnt deserve a killing.

i'm trying to find ways to get the weasel used as a LEAGUE ship. anything that would work in league would work in pub, but not vice versa.

[ZeUs!!]

Originally posted by za gophar
and I flagrantly tked him and said "u didnt see THAT coming did u?"

I really dont think you should be admitting to that

[za gophar]

laughing out loud, the funny thing is i do that stuff all the time in pub. someone does something that makes me angry and we get in some sort of fight over an issue as small as that. ok im dumb but so what. i cant get banned from saying that on the forums i dont think.

[Nockm]

give the cloaker no weapons but lots of energy. it'll be a invsible battering-ram. something to ease those spider-crams of late

[Philos]

Yes indeed nockm, the invisible battering ram of doom! (if only bumping into things caused damage)... oh what havoc that would bring to tw.... i'd just be a terr and hunt someone down and ram them, or in elim, just crash into people all the time and your guarenteed a 10-10... bwhahaha what a plan.

[Lothlas]

I think that what no one can kill me meant to say here was that:

You use the weasel as a shield when entering a base, with lots of enrg, he can take alot of spider bullets while the terr and others fly in base. I think this is what he meant to say