Clanbase vote on Hangar Camping

[bvark]

As you know, Hangar camping is an integral part of our Midway tactics, and a useful part of our tactics on Alamein and Gazala. Repair pad camping is also something we do on a few maps.

Clanbase have organised a vote on http://www.clanbase.com/news_league.php?lid=808 to ask whether people think it is a lame tactic.

The 'it is a lame tactic' is currently winning.

I would be obliged if members of MPUK could all go to vote ONCE in the poll. I shan't dictate what you vote, but please come up with a viable solution to keep the midway tank alive if you disagree with me ;)

[Catachan]

Sorry, but if it's in the game, it should be ok to use.

Anyway, if you can't stand the heat, get out of the fire.

[Mavykins]

um I need my clan base id cuase i lost my password :P:

[lyn]

/me goes off to vote

[Afty]

I disagree with camping on hangars OR repair pads at the "uncaptureable" objectives, IMO this is a bug, and should be addressed.

The repair pads and hangars should only function for the members of the team owning the nearby flag...

It is hard though, on Midway the flag is captureable, so I dont have a problem, but I do object to El Alamein / Bulge etc.

[Catachan]

/me mounts Afty

Shut up you, nobody listens to northern scum :D

[SquireMuldoon]

Its a difficult one.

Hangar camping someones base, whilst a viable tactic is in my opinion lame. Id prefer not to do it unless necessary. Hanger camping Midway however is more or less necessary. A tank wouldnt last 30 secs otherwise.

As for calling it a bug... well anyone who does clearly doesnt know what they are talking about. An unwanted feature maybe, but it sure as hell isnt a bug.

[JeRkY]

perhaps if they took away the repair function of the hanger on midway, so it gave shelter from air attacks for the tank but meant it was easier to destry with wave after wave of infantry.

[Njoroge]

I find it annoying that ppl complainabout it but never spawn as AT.

Yes there are times when it's virtually impossible to do anything about it, but mostly you can.

You can always team up as AT or run like hell in a jeep etc

[SquireMuldoon]

Plane suicides are particularly effective, but most recently I have been on the receiving end of some very nasty and effective expacking... tho its a tactic best discussed elsewhere.

[JeRkY]

;)

[WildThing]

Hanger camping is clearly part of the game and is there to be used. Noone believes a plane is a bug or an exploit but sometimes they are more bloody annoying than hanger campers. On the whole hanger campers dont hurt you too much as there is normally nothing much in front of the hanger to destroy. Its an in game option and should be used. Its not a bug as it was intended, and its just as annoying as many other things in the game. Anyway the good clan that we are we should be able to own the campers and not whinge about them playing the game in a highly sensible matter.

[TheGuyver]

well people are not going to stop using it.

if clanbase tryed to outlaw it, it would make it stupid.

en. runs into the hanger, does that mean the tank cannot follow?

As squire says, if its for their base, like el alemin (sp) than that is a bit lame. maybe for hangers they should reduce the amount of repairing over time they do.

actually if we are honest, how many people actually land the plane and go into the hanger to be repaired?

so what is it even doing there?? :)

as for fighting off a repair pad.. how on earth can this be classed as a exploit? or even lame?? If a sherman in on a pad, a tiger can still out damage it.

if you get onto the pad, then its upto the en. to get you off it.

while on the subject of lameness, might as well say that tanks cannot be killed by suicide planes slamming themselves into the ground. pluezzze. stop moaning, there are far worse exploits in other games that make any in bf1942 look pathetic.

[TheGuyver]

Originally posted by afty
The repair pads and hangars should only function for the members of the team owning the nearby flag...


oooh i missed that. maybe that would work also. and certainly cut out the base camping.

[Afty]

Originally posted by WildThing
On the whole hanger campers dont hurt you too much as there is normally nothing much in front of the hanger to destroy.

Except every single on of your teams planes, which prevents you from taking off for the rest of the game...

Hangar camping actually turns the game completely on matches like El Al - as seen in the match on wednesday when we lost all 3 flags while our hangar was camped.

[WildThing]

OK well we'll ignore that minor point

[[A-Com] andy]

Base camping is really lame ****. I have a few suggestions that really will do the trix and stop it.

1. Make back doors to the hangar. 1 rocket to tha ass and its bye.

2. The repair pad should only repair tanks from the same team, if like an allied tanks in axis base trying to repair it on an axis pad its not gonna work.

3. Autokick base campers.

4. Just kill kill kill them :cool:

[Mavykins]

When they come up with a new patch they should introduce some form of limit on who often u can repair a tank or vechile, Like once u using a repair pad u cannot use it for 60 seconds, that would give enough people time to rush in there and tank the tank out

[Baz]

hangers repair planes
repair pads repair tanks
this is how it should be, and imo the fact that hangers repair tanks is a bug that should be removed.

[Catachan]

the fact that hangers repair planes is a bug that should be removed.

a BUG that fixes planes? Oh please! If you remove that, you should remove repair pad capability for tanks too then. Basically just make it so only planes repair in hangars and only vehicles repair on repair pads.

[BigDook]

My 2 cents.

Hanger camping & repair pad camping isn't a problem, as long as it's not base/spawn camping on a uncapturable flag. (i.e Al Alamein).

Most servers boot for base/spawn camping, especially on uncapturable flags, but on other maps like.....Gazala, the repair bays on the strip of 3 flags are fair game and perfectly normal tactics, as long as ppl don't start driving to the oppositions base, and parking on em, which is base/spawn camping.

[JeRkY]

all is fair in love and war

the back door to hangers would be good though

[Baz]

Originally posted by Catachan
a BUG that fixes planes? Oh please! If you remove that, you should remove repair pad capability for tanks too then. Basically just make it so only planes repair in hangars and only vehicles repair on repair pads.

opps type-o
post edited accordingly

[Mavykins]

Originally posted by [WnG]JeRkY
all is fair in love and war

the back door to hangers would be good though

yeah another way into the hanger would be nice, cause then the tank would have to defend 2 ways in, so u could easily catch them off guard

[Baz]

perhaps a doorway on each side?

[Mavykins]

Or that :P

[Tsung]

O another option...

Whilst the Tank/Plane is in the hanger (on repair pad), it is unable to fire, becuase its being repaired.. (even if it is at full health)..

That would at least make sure the "campers" have to move thier tanks into danger before they can fight back :)

[WildThing]

how about we just get rid of the whole repairing thing all together that includes the engis go go gadget spanner too? Surely that also is a 'bug' (a bug is a glitch not a part of the game). This game is not realistic and never was intended to be take the medic pack for example!!! Go play Op Flash if u want realism. The hanger plays a more role in clan tactics and always will/should do. Leet clans should be able to cope with a tank in the hanger

[Baz]

indeed, plane suicides etc can sort em out
but still think 2 doorways, one on each side of hanger would make it a lot fairer.

[Limi]

Originally posted by Catachan
Sorry, but if it's in the game, it should be ok to use. so is spawn camping acceptable?

[JeRkY]

Originally posted by LimitedEdition
so is spawn camping acceptable?

in as far as moving into a non capturable enemy base when your team has control all other bases and the only place they can come from is their spawn, then i see no problem with it...this is war, we are not going to say "good show chaps , now lets pull back and let them get organised." a clan should push for victory.

if this happens to u (as in the enemy has pushed you back to your base and are now pinning you in.) it is your fault (as a clan) for not doing it to the other team first. They out played you and are pushing to finish the round as efficently as possible.

its questionable wether its an acceptable tactic at other times, but again i believe it is . if 1 man sniping or tank thieving can hold off reinforcements to a contested flag for a few seconds then it helps. it may be annoying to be on the recieving end, but due to battlefields spawn positions at bases being reletivly spread out, it is certainly not an unsolveable problem.