Goonhub
07-10-2020, 08:59 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-10-2020, 09:02 PM by Starborn. Edited 3 times in total.)
Now, I could beat around the bush for a hot minute, or I could just say it.
Telescience could be cooler.
Give the Telescience teleporter the ability to auto-recieve after a designated period of time. Teleport into a secure location as a traitor maybe, and calibrate the teleporter to receive you in 3 minutes. You memorize the tile, and just as security is about to knock down your door, you're back, home free. To live another day. I just think it would be incredibly cool to get a beep on a wristwatch or something that tells you the receive window is about to hit and then run to the designated tile, and get beamed up. Very epic for RP, and totally awesome for solo missions.
Though, admittedly, there is clear room for abuse with this kind of mechanic, and I'm reasonably sure that somebody smarter then me has probably considered this idea before, but seeing as you wouldn't know what your destination looks like, the amount of people in the area, or if someone is standing on your entrance/receive tile, without doing some recon, I think it balances out in its own way.
I've also considered that it could just be a debris-field upgrade you have to find from an old ruin in order to get it to work like that, and that having it only be obtainable from such an item being placed into the teleporter console would probably be a greater balance for such a unique mechanic.
Tell me what you think?
Telescience could be cooler.
Give the Telescience teleporter the ability to auto-recieve after a designated period of time. Teleport into a secure location as a traitor maybe, and calibrate the teleporter to receive you in 3 minutes. You memorize the tile, and just as security is about to knock down your door, you're back, home free. To live another day. I just think it would be incredibly cool to get a beep on a wristwatch or something that tells you the receive window is about to hit and then run to the designated tile, and get beamed up. Very epic for RP, and totally awesome for solo missions.
Though, admittedly, there is clear room for abuse with this kind of mechanic, and I'm reasonably sure that somebody smarter then me has probably considered this idea before, but seeing as you wouldn't know what your destination looks like, the amount of people in the area, or if someone is standing on your entrance/receive tile, without doing some recon, I think it balances out in its own way.
I've also considered that it could just be a debris-field upgrade you have to find from an old ruin in order to get it to work like that, and that having it only be obtainable from such an item being placed into the teleporter console would probably be a greater balance for such a unique mechanic.
Tell me what you think?