A Very Impressive PVP Boat. Has a very Anti Aircraft feel to it, I use turret motorboats almost daily on official PVP to keep griefers and small raiding parties at bay, thought I would ask how do you find this design goes with reloading the turrets? Do you find access is too restrictive to do during combat and would be best to retreat once ammo exhausted to reload from safety with a pteranodon?
You would need to retreat for sure to reload the upper levels, I mean depending on what you are fighting off of course. You could possibly reload the lower level, just depends how good enemy snipers are. I was thinking about designing one similar to this, but with enclosed access to the top and a couple sniper nests on the boat, it would have fewer turrets of course.
Thought I'd pass on a little feedback again mate! Boat works well for PVP defence but is a real pain to reload and place turrets. I suggest those who use this build create a special Dock to reload and conduct any repairs, will save you a lot of swearing about not having tek jetpack. You will not get dev wiped, this build has nothing that current gameplay does not allow. Also worth noting to anyone wondering, you CANNOT place heavy turrets on rafts. Wildcard prevented this and when you try you get the "Cannot be placed on a platform" message. For protection I suggest taking a second boat to defend this one as its small build footprint is its weakness.
I don't entirely agree with that. But to keep everyone informed, it has come to my attention from Carlip in the recent patch notes there is the following statement "v260.0 Prevented multiple floors from being built underneath rafts and platform saddles." This is probably the reason our previous build mechanics are no longer working. That said, I don't think this makes the build illegal, and I personally would continue to build it as it is, as I think leeds are more likely to destroy your boat than the devs over this. However, that said, if you wanted to build this and not be against their new intended build, you would simply not build the floating foundation underneath, you would need to set some of the upper turrets on wild to protect against leads (especially a plant-x to slow down alpha leeds, as the motorboat is faster than a regular leeds)
Do not build floating foundation! Is now against rules, build pillars down with a ceiling to defend against leeds.
A Very Impressive PVP Boat. Has a very Anti Aircraft feel to it, I use turret motorboats almost daily on official PVP to keep griefers and small raiding parties at bay, thought I would ask how do you find this design goes with reloading the turrets? Do you find access is too restrictive to do during combat and would be best to retreat once ammo exhausted to reload from safety with a pteranodon?
You would need to retreat for sure to reload the upper levels, I mean depending on what you are fighting off of course. You could possibly reload the lower level, just depends how good enemy snipers are. I was thinking about designing one similar to this, but with enclosed access to the top and a couple sniper nests on the boat, it would have fewer turrets of course.
this would be nice !
Thought I'd pass on a little feedback again mate! Boat works well for PVP defence but is a real pain to reload and place turrets. I suggest those who use this build create a special Dock to reload and conduct any repairs, will save you a lot of swearing about not having tek jetpack. You will not get dev wiped, this build has nothing that current gameplay does not allow. Also worth noting to anyone wondering, you CANNOT place heavy turrets on rafts. Wildcard prevented this and when you try you get the "Cannot be placed on a platform" message. For protection I suggest taking a second boat to defend this one as its small build footprint is its weakness.
On officials I reload with a quetzal, but a dock for reloading sounds like a fun project.
How is your account this small
It's because I talk to myself, scares people.
Rip Dec 5
This build is illegal and will get dev deleted, might even get you dev wiped.
I don't entirely agree with that. But to keep everyone informed, it has come to my attention from Carlip in the recent patch notes there is the following statement "v260.0 Prevented multiple floors from being built underneath rafts and platform saddles." This is probably the reason our previous build mechanics are no longer working. That said, I don't think this makes the build illegal, and I personally would continue to build it as it is, as I think leeds are more likely to destroy your boat than the devs over this. However, that said, if you wanted to build this and not be against their new intended build, you would simply not build the floating foundation underneath, you would need to set some of the upper turrets on wild to protect against leads (especially a plant-x to slow down alpha leeds, as the motorboat is faster than a regular leeds)