Town Portal

coilcoil Amateur pirate. Professional monkey. All pance. Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 424Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
in Frontiersmen Strategy
Huh? This isn't a Blizzard game!

I'm not sure if it's been mentioned, but it's just a funny and surprisingly effective strategy. However, it requires very obedient marines!!!!

Your marines have become scattered across the map, busy on side missions or worse, not following your commands. All of a sudden you hear "Sentry firing! Sentry taking damage!" You sweep your base to discover 5 skulks jumping all over the place, and watch in horror as your turret factory falls. Now what??!?!

A) Tell all marines to type "kill" in console.
B) Distress Beacon.

Instant Town Portal!
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  • BlueGhostBlueGhost Join Date: 2002-11-30 Member: 10337Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->But, REALLY we need a 'force suiside of soilder' option. Would be absolute magic when used in conjunction with distress beacon for when you're in trouble. I mean can you imagine it, the aliens have taken down the TF, there's 4 skulks in base calmly the commander orders the suiside of all his marines, calls in distress and they all spawn in base

    Might be a nice clan tactic, get your marines to all bind a key to 'kill' and then when you need it order one squad to suiside and distress them into base all at once

    BlueGhost

    EDIT> If no one posted of the suiside then distress befor can it be called 'ghosting back to base'  

    This post has been edited by BlueGhost on Dec 17 2002, 08:37 PM
    <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> - BlueGhost (in the 'commander drop health pack' post)

    Unless you have prior art and a thread you made about it befor, could you use my name for it? <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->

    GOOooon, Town portal is so dull its from diablo fs.
    Ghosting to base is nicer. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

    BlueGhost
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  • NarfwakNarfwak Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 5258Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, Playtest Lead, Forum Moderators, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Supporter, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Gold, Reinforced - Diamond, Reinforced - Shadow, Subnautica PT Lead, NS2 Community Developer
    edited December 2002
    Hehe. Just hope that the main base is still secure. I don't like the "give up the main base and relocate" stategies that much because of the usefulness of distress beacon; not to say you shouldn't pack your bags and go when the outlook is looking quite grim.

    Anyway, this is a really cool strat. The "force marine to suicide" option can be done as long as you admin a server, but I'm sure it would anger some people a great deal.
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  • BlueGhostBlueGhost Join Date: 2002-11-30 Member: 10337Members
    lol
    I can just see that.

    LAMER ADMIN!
    *Klaxon sounds*
    YOU GREIFER LAMER **obscenity**!!!!!
    *Marine spawns in base*
    YOUR SERVER IS A PEACE OF **obscenity**!!!!!!!
    *Skulks Chomp marines happily*

    hehehe

    BlueGhost
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  • coilcoil Amateur pirate. Professional monkey. All pance. Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 424Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    *laughs* sorry Ghost, I even did a quick search to see if it had been mentioned. Ah well. Actually, the phrase "town portal" was tossed around by playtesters a while ago; I was surprised no one had ever posted it here.
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  • BlueGhostBlueGhost Join Date: 2002-11-30 Member: 10337Members
    Humph, but its not a damn town OR a portal!

    A phase gate is closer to a town portal fs <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

    *sigh* well I guess I canni argue with the play testers afterall you helped bring about the joy that is NS.

    BlueGhost
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  • NarfwakNarfwak Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 5258Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, Playtest Lead, Forum Moderators, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Supporter, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Gold, Reinforced - Diamond, Reinforced - Shadow, Subnautica PT Lead, NS2 Community Developer
    To really make it a town portal, replace the admin_slay sound effect with the portal sound from Diablo II. Then bind admin_slayteam 1 to a key. Much hilarity would then follow.
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  • Pika-CthulhuPika-Cthulhu Join Date: 2002-11-19 Member: 9386Members
    "DECKARD CAIN YOU HAVE GOT TO GET OUT OF HERE!!!!:

    SCHPWOOOOOWWWHHH!!!!

    Marine: WTF?
    Marine UGH!!!!

    <Respawns>

    YOU STUPID COMM!!! WHY'D YOU <CHOMP>

    BEEEEEEEEP

    SCHPWOOOOOOWWWWWHHH!!!

    GODAMNIT COMM YOU STU <CHOMP>

    BEEEEEEEEP

    SCHPWOOOOOOWWWWHHH!!!

    STOP DOING <CHOMP>

    Marine left game


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    But it sounds like a good idea, well maybe not the kill all distress beacon, maybe just tell your men to do it and have them know what your doing, so only the nonessentail marines (nonbuilding a base are in transit are low on HP) can respawn.
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