Artillery for Outpost battles

[iwojimmy]

Expanding on the thread for new content, one of the suggestions was craftable weapons and defenses for Outpost battles.

The Ryzom engine doesnt seem to be friendly towards adding new objects ingame.. all the temporary things I have seen seem to be placed and removed by patching (Christmas trees/presents, Halloween cauldrons,easter eggs..) so the ability to "build" objects may be a problem I am not a programmer, nor familiar with the ring, so dont know just how difficult this may be.)

However, there are possible ways to work around this. There could be two types of buildable siege equipment - emplaced, and manned.
Emplaced is things like minefields, barricades, autonomous weapons, possibly buffing/healing stations.. These would probably have to be treated as an extension of the Outpost guards and I really dont know how it would be possible to implement them.

Manned equipment is pretty easy though. This is stuff like Artillery (real artillery, not OP guards ), mortar and machine gun pits, aid stations.. let your imagination go
What you do is have a craftable weapon, that weighs so much the wielder cannot move, with a 3d model that is large enough to obscure the homin carrying it. Require a couple of packers worth of mats to produce each item. Leave enough bulk free on the wielder, that other homins can give them ammunition. Ammo would be like existing launcher/autolauncher ammo, only more so, so the gunner would need a support crew crafting ammo and passing it to them.

These artillery and mortars should not be able to hit OP guards - only players. they should have a range of maybe 100-150 m, requiring a forward observer to feed targets to the gunner (or targeting macros )

Defending guilds with access to their guild inventory do have an advantage here - it may not be a big one though if most major guilds are struggling for GH space anyway
There are still several issues to be worked out, this is intended to get people thinking

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[andypur1]

Originally Posted by iwojimmy

Expanding on the thread for new content, one of the suggestions was craftable weapons and defenses for Outpost battles.

The Ryzom engine doesnt seem to be friendly towards adding new objects ingame.. all the temporary things I have seen seem to be placed and removed by patching (Christmas trees/presents, Halloween cauldrons,easter eggs..) so the ability to "build" objects may be a problem I am not a programmer, nor familiar with the ring, so dont know just how difficult this may be.)

Hmm, looks like a good idea to me. Don't forget that the OP drills seem to fit the discription above and don't need a patch to change from one sort to another. So I think that having any defending weapons shouldn't be much of a problem, there is even roped off space for them