De-atomizer

[tribow]

Kay come up with a better name if you want.

But anyway I thought of a tower based off the neon atom! XD
De-atomizer:
This tower will not spawn minions, for they will be already out there. The minions circle the tower in a fixed path. 8 minions circle the tower in the outer circle while 2 more minions circle the tower in the inner circle. The tower in the middle obviously just sits there.
dis be colorcoded

Outer Circle:
The 8 outer circle minions follow the outer circle path at the speed of a wildfire with no augs. They are a flying type vehicles so you can pass under them without a problem. They aren't too big and they have a 360 degrees turret the shoots 3 lasers every half second. The dmg isnt enough to do a whole lot of pain, but is enough that it will take down any tanks shield. The turrets can see about 2 and a half squares out. The minions have a bit higher  health than the drill walls have (not the corners)

Inner circle:
The inner circle minions look like the outer circle one's but the guns are different. It is a 360 degrees single shot turret that can snipe a good 8 squares away and deal enough damage to destroy your shields if hit 1,2,3, or 4 times depending on what tank you are using. (not sure about da herc though) It shoots every 2 seconds when you are in sight. it moves around the inner circle at the speed of a voy. It has the same health as the drill wall (not the corners!!!)

The center:
The de-atomizer itself has 20 different turrets that all have 18 degrees and 3 squares of range. These turrets do an awful amount of dmg and can destroy one of the hornet's shields in one shot. Plus it shoots every 1 second

The size:
This thing should take up enough space that that organized line of towers have a slight break in it to allow the tower to be there and so that they won't interfere (the minions however can >_>)

The cool part:
There will be five of these in each region. Why 5? Here's the reason, as long as one is alive they take 10% away from the region stat bonus, so as long as there is 5 there is no region bonus (the tiles could possibly be gray then slowly go into color as you kill each one)

What it drops:
Delta pulch level drops. As for the augs, not sure, but it should drop augs 7-9 i guess (maybe 10). It could drop splinters too It could also give like, delta xp (cant come up with number D:). The minions give 15 xp and splinters, maybe augs too.


Why this is good:
This approves of scouting a region which gives the chance of finding a town or convoy routes. It totally helps with clearing and it gives a neat twist to the game, plus now there is something people can go after besides deltas and voys. Also it brings in a new type of tower that makes it hard to kill the middle without cloaking or using herc/phantom/fury to run in and out. It also brings some co-op in there too, some tanks can take the shots while the snipers snipe the place and the high dps tanks run in with high shield tanks to deal some heavy dmg while the cloakers try to kill the snipers.

So support me and my rainbow colors! Bettter Ood? :D

[Ood]

Color spam makes it extremely difficult to read. Please pick a dark (black) color, and go for that instead so I can read it and make a more appropriate comment.

[tribow]

Okay Ood it is all good now, also why did the smilies come outa no where?

[quicklite]

No. Change it so that every single letter is a different color. Only that will satisfy me.

...Just kidding >_>. But in all seriousness, the tower idea is great, but with 2 problems:

1. Given how tough it would be to find and kill all 5 of these things, having them inflict 10% debuffs is a little crazy. How about 5%? That way regions still matter to some degree even while de-atomizers exist, but killing them still makes a substantial difference,

2. The orbiter idea is cool, but feels a little bland. After all, the fire is only really coming from one direction, and there's no real dodging involved. However, that' a little jars admittedly; after all, the idea of orbiters is a very cool one, and having to chase/time your attacks to deal with them would be a interesting aspect. However, here's an idea; What if the orbiters had orbit paths that caused them to move away from and then back towards the fortress while circling? That would add another layer of complexity, and make orbiters in general seem more interesting imo.

[Ood]

Now that I can read:

All tanks have same base speed.

You made the outer circle too easy (just sit on it with a cutty), the inner circle is also quite easy (sit on it with a cutty), and the center is also too easy (Snipe it with any decently ranged tank [hornet, specre, fury, wildfire, etc.])

Overall the lack of 'difficulty' isn't the worst problem. It's the complete lack of dynamic interaction that makes it boring. Currently the only enemy that is even close to being dynamic is the Ormicron Complex (with those gun turrets of doom it shoots at you). Everything else follows a single set pattern, and this would too.

If it's modeled after an atom, then give the nucleus a good strong base, then have small somewhat weak 'electrons' float by that, when killed, are replaced by a nearby structure. Once the structure is killed, or if there are none nearby when the electron dies, then the electron's 'slot' stays empty. Thus you could have the nucleus being circled by 4 alpha processors a drill and a nova (or whatever) for example. If you kill the center before you kill all the electrons or structure replacements, then the a randomized structure or the circling structure will be placed in nearby empty grid locations (respectively).
That, would be fun.

[tribow]

1. Oh sheet, yeah especially the fact that there isn't much of us here hahaha! Yeah that would be bad.

2. I just wanted it so you will be shot at with all force wherever you go (orbiter, that was the word..) Let's see, if they did that it would make it more complex. This could slow down our chasing (if we decide to do that. Maybe if the going in and out worked in phases? hmm, I'll think about this (not sure because of how hard it can get and there is always like 2 people that actually do something most of the time) haha forgot to add 5%
^that was to quicklight

Ood omg I love your mind. I like how high you would like the difficulty raised (I dont have cutty lol woops I couldnt judge there) Just a problem.
Wasn't sure of what exactly you were saying (#Grade K reader) If what you meant that if you killed an electron it would have something like a drill circling around it in that space that would be fun (and very very weird >_>), I might actually buff it in a different way (might be because i wasnt fully sure what you were saying XD. I lost it at drill or nova) Maybe giving the snipers a huge dmg buff (almost omnicron lvl?) and adding a few (maybe 4 big dmg 90 degree turrets that snipe on the tower too), but nice idea there. (too many parenthesis, bro you make me think[#Grade K reader haha{Well this might be some cool editing}] totally a good thing)