Pain fields for AMSs

[Tiletron|Hyncharas]

Don't get me wrong, AMSs are great for deploying troops, but the main problem with them these days are the necessity of having mines/boomers/spitfires just inside or outside the cloak-bubble. For example, so a soldier is killed near the bubble because a spitfire or mine just got them, however, they can die and then tell all of their friends where an AMS might be due to the fact they saw an enemy appear out of nowhere!

Why not make them a little more defensible, so empires don't have to draw attention to the fact they have an AMS there?

What I'm talking about here is two things. First, have a pain field for enemies while they are inside the bubble, and second (when they die), their position cannot be traced on the Map because of the cloaking field. As a counter-rule, however, if a vehicle is halfway in-halfway out the bubble and it gets destroyed, it creates an interference ripple in the cloak until they either:

1) Move the wreckage out of the way,
2) The wreckage disappears,
3) The AMS is moved to another location where the bubble and the wreckage don't overlap.

[Redford Blade]

Sounds like a good idea, but I think a pain field would just make life harder for the adv. hackers like myself. Cloakers especially, since they can only carry one or two medkits at the most.

[Earlydawn]

Would it not be wise to have sensor shield neutralize the pain field?

[evregade]

Thats a good idea and yes, every cloaker should have sensor shield.

[DviddLeff]

Like the idea a lot, however, you would have to make sure that the pain field doesnt fill the ground below the AMS, like how you see the cloak bubble in a corridor in a base below the AMS, otherwise youd have pain fields in the base...

[Tiletron|Hyncharas]

Well the beauty of a Pain Field is that people make a bad habit of putting their AMS right next to a tower, not realising the bubble can be seen by enemeies inside. While this is good in practice, the whole idea is so that people CAN'T see where the AMS is, so that the enemy doesn't destroy it.

I've seen this happen far too many times, and squads of all empires need to learn that all you do is piss them off even more if they have a spawn tube right outside the tower's walls. The whole idea I was trying to make, though, is having an AMS is ok... there just need to be rules so that if they try to hack and die, they still need a bearing outside the bubble to know where it is, without a squadmember simply going into the Chat pane and saying "hey, there's an AMS right where I died. Put a waypoint there...".

[piolet68654]

i dont think we should change the AMS
it has already reached its full potential,
next thing you know people will want there to be a spitfire turret on top of the ams.

[DviddLeff]

Id like to see Mobile Stations (no Advanced!) that dont cloak, but are heavily armoured and armed with gun turrets!

Then perhaps the current AMS could be renamed Cloaking Mobile Station, CMS.

[piolet68654]

yeah strip all the armor and cloaking stuff off
give it a 25mm gunner
and can drive 20kph faster