Knight wrote:In my original post my point was that I prefer a starting set of vehicles for each side and when they are destroyed they are lost and do not respawn again at the player base.
So the number of vehicles at the beginning of the match and the middle and end will be the same. The only difference being whether they are functional and moving around or destroyed/disabled and sitting in one spot.
The difference between moving vehicles and static ones as far as lag is concerned is probably negligable as moving ones need animating and position updating and static destroyed ones give off smoke. Although, the static ones probably don't ever need any data to be passed around as once their position and value have been set to static/destroyed then the individual computers only have to contintue to draw them and animate the smoke/sound of fire. Whereas active vehicles need their positions passed around constantly.
My ideal would be no or limited (perhaps 5 at most) respawns per player and vehicles that once used up in combat can not be replaced during that round.
In that case the protections of ones hardware would ad a vital strategic element to the team play.
The limited soldier respawn combined with the time penalty to respawn would make rambo style play rare.
the thing about limited deats would take away the rambo and make alot more cowards hiding in corners and alot more snipers sneaking around trying to get as much bang for your buck, limiting the tanks to only spawing at the beginning of the round i dont feel is a good idea as theyll eather A. last 30 seconds and then you have to go 80% of the round without thus leaving you with an infantry map that could be quite huge
think of it this way if what your suggesting was done on a map like El Alamien once the armors gone after the first minute or so of the round each time after that when you respawn your talking about a very very very very long walk to get to any of the bases let alone the farther out ones
as far as a dead vehicle not causing strain on the lag im almost certain your wrong, im not a coder and make not statement to suggest i am but id like to think i understand a sound "theory" from an un-sound one your idea that because it isnt moving it doesnt need to be updated doesnt make sense, the computer needs to rebuild each frame with every aspect of the enviroment static or active, and if your doing 40 or so frames thats alot of info having a bunch of objects around that arent neccessary causes unneeded strain on the netcode,
basically the conclusion on this is , Yes on a 12-32 pub server or an 8 on 8 clan match its not going to kill anyones game play, but for big battles in tournaments or larger pub servers of over 50-64 people from all over the world which is the way i play, you realise that things like this arent in anyway adding to the gameplay expirience, and can easily be left out.
