Author Topic: Docking Bays Are Satan Worshippers!  (Read 2614 times)

Offline Arklon

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Docking Bays Are Satan Worshippers!
« on: August 15, 2006, 09:10:18 PM »
Everybody knows that, when you drive a vehicle on to another person's docking bay, your vehicle gets damaged.

What everybody DOESN'T know is that, when you do that, THE STRUCTURE ABSORBS HEALTH FROM THE VEHICLE!

Offline Betaray

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« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2006, 09:11:49 PM »
ITS DIOBOLIC!!!

its pretty cool, we used it to heal the spaceport in swarm, thats how we found out about this lol

still kind of disturbing
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Offline BlackBox

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« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2006, 09:17:23 PM »
I have a feeling that this was an intentional 'feature' by Dynamix -- this isn't something that could happen by accident due to a bug.

I think it's kind of interesting, having seen it myself... :P

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« Last Edit: August 15, 2006, 09:25:02 PM by Sirbomber »
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Offline Arklon

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« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2006, 09:30:12 PM »
I would've had the comm. log open, so you could see the mark and know that it was getting healed from it.

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« Reply #5 on: August 15, 2006, 09:38:09 PM »
Why? They can try it themselves!
Just start your own multiplayer game and join it!
Damage anythng with a dock and drive a vehicle owned by another player over it.
NOTE: These Lynx had 1000 HP. Results may vary depending on the vehicle's HP.
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Offline dm-horus

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« Reply #6 on: August 15, 2006, 10:29:04 PM »
I think this is a feature designed to deter an enemy from putting a unit on your docking bays and prevent the owner from using them.

Offline Arklon

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« Reply #7 on: August 15, 2006, 10:31:59 PM »
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I think this is a feature designed to deter an enemy from putting a unit on your docking bays and prevent the owner from using them.
It's not the damage part we're emphasizing here, it's the absorption part.
« Last Edit: August 15, 2006, 10:32:24 PM by Arklon »

Offline Leviathan

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« Reply #8 on: August 16, 2006, 04:59:16 AM »
uber cool :D

Offline BlackBox

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« Reply #9 on: August 16, 2006, 06:55:17 AM »
Yeah.. my feeling is that the people at Dynamix probably thought, "let's hide something in the game that people might not notice like this."

well sure enough, no one has noticed it for 9 years. (Probably because no one stops on another person's docking bay)

Maybe this idea came first and then the damage idea came later so that people might not try it.
 

Offline Betaray

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« Reply #10 on: August 20, 2006, 11:07:27 AM »
well ive tested, it works on other things besides swarm, and for every building with a docking bay

an intresting thing is, they dont heal from scouts, im not sure why, buildings can heal from surveyors that have the same hp, but for spaceports at least, a scout does not heal
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