Siege equipment and Siege servers "Now a political campaign"

[Zlisch_The_Butcher]

Time lapse build, have target dumbie person duel the catapult operator and move far away somewhere else on the map, perhaps up on a building, hill or tower.  Time how long & how many shots to hit'em dead

I shot at people often, some get pissed, but lolz...
My hit amount varies from first hit 40%, 2nd hit 5%, sometime after 3rd attempt 55%...
Not in their clan, not been practicing that long, just sayin', stop hatin'.

[Zlisch_The_Butcher]

2 questions, how do I make a Healing tent, and does it work on battle servers.   Also how long does healing tent take to erect?   Guess it was three questions.

Work in battle server, fastest siege equipment to make ('cept rack), you need one other player in order to build properly, tillmash told you how, build rack, then use it to refill and build tent.

[RandomDude]

My personal opinion is that it's a waste of time to build/use siege eq in normal siege.

The timer isnt long enough. I really cant see the benefit of it. After 3 mins the first door of the wall would be down, ladders erecte, siege towers moved... what can a catapult do for the team in a helpful and timely way?

I would support some kind of new siege mode with say a 15 min timer where siege equipment can be used.

[Zlisch_The_Butcher]

No ban can stop my engineers! No mute can stop my voice of freedom! Rights to the engineers!
Zlisch for president of the siege club 2012!

[Renten]

I feel that if the defending team made a catapult to scrape everyone off a section of the wall it would be pretty hilarious and effective. The amount of flags that have a bottleneck right before them could be defended quite effectively with that death device.

[Tomas_of_Miles]

I support this 110%. I believe with a well drilled enough team it is possible to build a catapult, and lob onto the flag killing any defenders on it. The catapult can kill at least 3 people in one shot, it has been proven. I wish I had a dedicated team of assistants.

[Teeth]

Not worth it, you are a liability to your team.

[BlindGuy]

What a joke. Your saying that after 3 minutes you can start firing, as long as no defenders are meanies and ride out + lance your site + face....

And once your firing, explain to me, please, what your use is?

[Eugen]

Nice thread.

My opinion: a construction site is expensive and uses 3 slots. So not more then one or two players on a team will carry one. imo there is no real threat in massengeneering ruining the game or the multiplier of the team.

So I support this: kick players who destroy friendly construction sites - let engineers do their thing!

But as I read the thread I saw following:

we've done a siege crew with a few NA guy (not official, just random guy trying)

and well.. it MAY have worked without all the people destructing and killing us (to not bypass auto-balance we helped us even if in wrong team...)

our only kills was a teammate, but still... they could have won with our siege tower... if they didn't destroy it!!


I've noticed some map cata ARE useful : basically all the map with door in front of flag : a little shot and BOOM no defender!

I support!!!

Please dont let this get a habit. This ruins the reputation of engineering. Stick to your team and play for your team. Else dont wonder if you get kicked and banned.

edit: typofix

[FRANK_THE_TANK]

I've gone full time siegeing on NA. The idea that a siege team in siege is useless is... well... idiotic. While defending, deploying weapons racks and healing tents is a huge bonus for the defending team. Let us not over look the awesome power of a forward base both for offense and defense.

So shut up douche nozels, your nozels are douchey.

[MR_FISTA]

15 minute siege mode ftw, I would love that

[Camaris]

If it is possible to install such a server i would sit down to make maps balanced for 15 minutes roundtime ;)

[BlindGuy]

If it is possible to install such a server i would sit down to make maps balanced for 15 minutes roundtime ;)

Why not balance them for the current time limits then?

[Slamz]

It is a shame that siege gear is useless on siege servers.  It's obvious on Strategus fights that most people don't know how to use ladders and with them gone from all game modes, they have no way to practice.

Granted ladders did break most of the siege maps, and the maps made to counter ladder spam (by having steep hills) just suck to play on.


Siege just needs to be updated/replaced with Strategus-type battles.

Attackers and defenders both get, say, 500 tickets.  Maybe bring-your-own-gear instead of Strategus style gear but otherwise a fight to the death.

Use actual Strategus maps so it doubles as practice and a way to test Strategus maps.


But anyway, siege equipment on siege servers still sucks and is still useless.  Battles are over way too quick for healing tents, spawn points or anything else to be worth the time to build.

[CrazyCracka420]

If you want to be useful in siege with siege equipment, don't build a catapult, build a healing tent, or a forward base...