Guild Wars 2

Having done the Arah story a few days ago, I have to say the big highlight of that dungeon was the Airship portions, especially the parts where you use the main guns to blast things. So, I have a suggestion.

An extra upgrade to SM Castle would be “Build an Airship”. It would basically be the twin of the one in the first part of the Arah dungeon and would have a dedicated waypoint accessible to the controlling team. To build the Airship, the building team must have max improvements on SM and use the entire supply store.

The Airship would then travel around WvW on a predetermined path, passing over the outer walls of the various keeps (but not the inner walls) at a relatively slow pace, and maybe stopping occasionally. I envision the trip around the entire WvW area taking about 60 minutes. Players could choose to ride on the Airship, using its main guns to blast people, or utilize it to attack keep upgrades and so on.

The Airship itself cannot be destroyed, but the guns can be damaged and require supplies to repair them. The only way to remove the Airship from the map would be to flip SM.

No, thanks.

/15 chars

Cool idea but SM really doesn’t need to give more advantages than it already does to the owner.

Lalnuir.4957:

Cool idea but SM really doesn’t need to give more advantages than it already does to the owner.

Isn’t the point of SM to be advantageous and encourage the worlds to fight for it?

Aeros.2046:

Lalnuir.4957:

Cool idea but SM really doesn’t need to give more advantages than it already does to the owner.

Isn’t the point of SM to be advantageous and encourage the worlds to fight for it?

Yes, but it’s somewhat of a paradox isn’t it? Add too much to SM, and fighting for it will be impossible. Add too little, and no one would bother with it.

A fricking flying airship that can siege anything on the map? Come on man…

What next? An International Space Station? AWACS? Nuclear Launch Sites? Red Alert: THAT → WAY

Aeros.2046:

Lalnuir.4957:

Cool idea but SM really doesn’t need to give more advantages than it already does to the owner.

Isn’t the point of SM to be advantageous and encourage the worlds to fight for it?

Being able to treb the other teams towers from sm while safe from aoes and I don’t just mean from the 3rd floor isn’t advantageous enough for you? Some spots around sm can be really hard to hit with counter siege before your siege is trebbed.

I think they should make each of the 3 BLs topographically different before they start messing with anything else, graphically, anyways.

If it was faster than 60 mins, maybe more like 20 (60 is too slow, lets it strafe towers for way too long), didn’t have much in way of siege capabilities and was mostly good for hitting zerg if it was in the right place at the right time, it could work.

Then again it’d probably cost gold and for something so haphazard and unreliable nobody would bother get it. Well, unless they were feeling silly.

Kolisch.4691:

What next? An International Space Station? AWACS? Nuclear Launch Sites? Red Alert: THAT -> WAY

Deathstar, lets not muck around anymore!

Ragnarok.4586:

I think they should make each of the 3 BLs topographically different before they start messing with anything else, graphically, anyways.

Never. They should never do this.

Its ridiculously hard to balance 3 different sides of a map as is. Eventually it would be decided which of the 3 new BLs are better to own and then the QQing would go on for ages

They would need to add AA guns to balance.

Asuran air support would be interesting to add, but they would have to seriously redesign things to make this possible. Otherwise, you just build up a ship and then drop troops into keeps and flip the map in a matter of minutes.

Aeros.2046:

An extra upgrade to SM Castle would be “Build an Airship”. It would basically be the twin of the one in the first part of the Arah dungeon and would have a dedicated waypoint accessible to the controlling team. To build the Airship, the building team must have max improvements on SM and use the entire supply store.

I would support this if you change “Airship” to “Starship” and have them perform “We Built This City” on the second floor of SM.

I would be fine with it if it was a buff for the home border team only. to make defending easier

Zolihan.8674:

I would support this if you change “Airship” to “Starship” and have them perform “We Built This City” on the second floor of SM.

I believe this is what youtube is for.

If you can C&D off of the airship the 75% of wvw pop will be in favor of this change. The other 25% will blame culling.

The OP is evidence that cute ideas are not often good ideas.

Frankly, if they WERE to introduce an airship, I would only agree to it if it could only be used as a breakout type event, but to take control of the keep on your server’s side of the EB.

i think it could work if there was a way to shoot them down. obviously this wouldn’t go with SM, they’d be like siege golems.

Kolisch.4691:

What next? An International Space Station? AWACS? Nuclear Launch Sites? Red Alert: THAT -> WAY

Nuclear launchs… mmmmmm… Zerg wipes…

And here I am thinking that we should have ship battles in the middle of borderlands using cannons. I need more imagination apparently.

The airship addition could originate from our spawn and operate like a break-out event. with the exception that it would fly to a random enemy structure on a map and operate as a waypoint for a very brief time. Basically Dredgion for those who played Aion.

I’m not a fan of the idea. I prefer more smaller group (10v10) battles

Thresher.3049:

Kolisch.4691:

What next? An International Space Station? AWACS? Nuclear Launch Sites? Red Alert: THAT -> WAY

Deathstar, lets not muck around anymore!

Too late. It’s already in the game.