The only mechanical reason to even have crafted telepads is to force players to burn resources.
Ultimately, it's a time sink. Same as making folks visit locations to get the beacons.
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Drat. I read the title too quickly and thought this was about more BACON.
I'll sign anyway though.
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PLEASE! In reality there's little reason to need more than one teleporter if it could just be linked to go everywhere. Considering all we have are "Basic" telepads.. lets see the "advanced"!
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Originally Posted by Kinrad
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Base system updates? I'd be surprised.
Would also be nice if bases could now have teleporter access to red and blue zones now that side switching is here. Thus a group with vigilante and rogues could setup TP units for them.
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Originally Posted by Nericus
Would also be nice if bases could now have teleporter access to red and blue zones now that side switching is here. Thus a group with vigilante and rogues could setup TP units for them.
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I expect we'll see more progress on this in I19, but it's not as easy as just dropping a telepad and attaching a beacon to it. (In fact, right now you can earn the beacons, you just can't place them)
I'd willingly pay a reasonable amount of prestige more (both up front and in rent) for "advanced" teleporters to more destinations.
As to the red and blue zone travel thing, a strong case for that was made in GR closed beta and the call for it continues (though a minority of people think what we have is sufficient and the "price to be paid" for being a rogue or vigilante).
I think it's important that the time and effort be dedicated so that bases remain relevant to the times (more destinations, Praetoria, side switching, etc.). The devs?... so far at least, not so much. We are in a situation where the seemingly simplest of new development requests for bases have gone wanting for a period of years. It's easy to become pessimistic when asking for things of even a little more complexity such as red/blue travel.
But some of us keep trying.
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom (or freem?) fighter; just as one man's exploit is another man's feature.
What would be nice for an Advanced Teleporter is the option of where in a zone you get dropped off at.
For Steel you would have a choice between the normal teleport spot in Northern Steel and the base entrance next to the Strong Guy statue.
I'd like to know if there's a good reason for a limit of only 2 beacons per telepad. And if there isn't a good reason for the limit, may we please have more beacons per pad?