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A clan Allied Guild was attacked by omni during the %5 zone gas period.
Many clan guilds responded and we successfully defended the zone and defeated the invaders, but then we were autotargetted by their turrets. It's very inequitous to get blown to bits by the Massive Cannon Turrets by people you are trying to help.
In the chaos there was no way to spot members of the guild and get teamed up in order to avoid this. Most of the guild members that owned the controller were already dead.
I thought it made things more interesting :)
And after all, its only for 1 hour.
Love Riz
... did you fight in one of those battles?
why do people always attack the opposing side during 5% ??
It's only interesting for the attacking side. It's very disadvantageous for the defenders.
Keep the 5%.
If some lame guild of the same side has some prime real estate, but only has a couple towers on it, and no intention of building it up, what am i supposed to do. Excuse me mr. clanner, could you come kill this omni guild base so i can come kick your butt off of it in 16 hours. Hell no. I should be able to arm us and go knock it out myself.
This is called Notum Wars. If someone on my side is controlling a notum mine i want. I should be able to conquer them the same as anyone else.
If you want to kill an omni tower, get yourself a clan application form.
AWAY WITH 5%... it sucks :(
It's probably done to prevent a ton of people swarming in to help, more because the crappy engine cant handle huge groups in one area like EQ.
Once crowd control is stable maybe they'll think about removing 5%, it is pretty lame. You'd think huge battles would be more fun, and pacts between guilds should be encouraged.
It's so buggy too, someone who was on the same side as me AND IN MY GUILD could not buff me, said I wasnt friendly. We had to team before she could buff me.
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Originally posted by Healios
A clan Allied Guild was attacked by omni during the %5 zone gas period.
Many clan guilds responded and we successfully defended the zone and defeated the invaders, but then we were autotargetted by their turrets. It's very inequitous to get blown to bits by the Massive Cannon Turrets by people you are trying to help.
In the chaos there was no way to spot members of the guild and get teamed up in order to avoid this. Most of the guild members that owned the controller were already dead.
5% isnt all that bad and defenitly something that sould stay i think,,,, but you might try and put a member of Guild (B) in all teams and see the wonders!!!
(B) being the guild you defend
well ... it's very hard to get teamed in UTTER lag and chaos
Keep 5%. It does allow for same-side combat and makes a guild rely on itself for protection rather than the entire side. Sometimes you just can't turn to your allies, and the 5% is one of those times.
i say leave the 5% gas. and keep it at 1 hour. but move it from the 25% timer so there will be a periode of time where there is 100%. could put it an hour or just 5 minutes.
it's not intended for being the prime time for an oppisde side attack it's intended for same side attack, which can opt to cooperate with one of the sites if they so chose. but the sudden change from 25% to 5% is just redicules and leads to utter caos, which might be fun for attackers. but isn't for defenders.
and make it so it's the team that couts for same side or others. this way if your teamed with one from land owner org. u have stated your there to help if you haven't your there to land grab.
as long as 5% is available be 5% prime time.
Maybe there should be called 50% or something, where it's 100% for the other side and 5% for the same side.
A proper in-game alliance system would resolve the problem and still allow 5%.
I think that would fix the problem. But of course they would have to implement it.
But I think it would be the best solution.
Keep 5%, it makes things more interesting. Some people are syaing that it would be against the story for omni to attack omni, but I disagree, what about the criminal omni factions, and rogue departments.
I believe that 5% should stay in, but that an allience system should be introduced. They also need to work on how the towers register an attack. I helped defend Red Tapes base awhile back during 5%. I got shot at a few times and had to back away from thier towers, rather a pain in the; but it wasn't until the tower shot one of our folks that had a damage shield up (he swears he never swung at it) that it became a problem. It registered us as an attacker and dropped our own shield back at our bases. Rather aggrivating.
I didn't realize that teaming with the owning org gets around that issue. Will be a pain though in the rush to defend to find a properly leveled team that doesn't have messed up PvP-ranges. An over-all alliance system would be better.
Anyhow, I really think that it would be interesting to keep the 5% up. Might make for fun friendly org v. org combat events. Arrange and friendly contest over a base.
A complete FAQ or manual explaining all this would have been cool. I had to learn the whole "at war" concept after you attack a tower first hand. I was just testing stuff with an "enemy" tower (with permission from their org leader). I had no idea it would drop the shield at my own towers. Ugh.
WTFM!
Also, pets don't seem to be covered under disgrace period. If I follow someone out of the tower area, no point in bringing pets because they won't attack.
5% ROCKS!!!