Sieging Bridges?

tinythinker · January 2016

No ownership, anyone could repair. I dunno, might make the Sej-Alessia corridor more interesting.

EDITED TO ADD:

Could do the same with Milegates, no ownership but could be (partially) repaired and sieged. You could still get through one side, but like with the bridges it would be riskier and take more time. Thus zergs would lose some of their advantage or would have to travel to another choke point. There are three choke points at each Alliance border, but mostly only the ones closes to IC get used. Might be fun to spread things out and add in more strategy to controlling the map and enemy movements.

PhatGrimReaper · January 2016

tinythinker wrote: »

No ownership, anyone could repair. I dunno, might make the Sej-Alessia corridor more interesting.

Yea, because we need to give the PUGs another reason to die at the bridge.......

tinythinker · January 2016

PhatGrimReaper wrote: »

tinythinker wrote: »

No ownership, anyone could repair. I dunno, might make the Sej-Alessia corridor more interesting.

Yea, because we need to give the PUGs another reason to die at the bridge.......

If you siege it down they have to jump the river or go to another bridge, no fighting over it if it's down.

WRX · January 2016

Id literally macro a player to siege it nonstop so it could never be repaired. Move pugels, move!

PhatGrimReaper · January 2016

tinythinker wrote: »

PhatGrimReaper wrote: »

tinythinker wrote: »

No ownership, anyone could repair. I dunno, might make the Sej-Alessia corridor more interesting.

Yea, because we need to give the PUGs another reason to die at the bridge.......

If you siege it down they have to jump the river or go to another bridge, no fighting over it if it's down.

Okay, but I want to use the bridge to get places..... Don't get me wrong, I'm all for the bridges being more important strategically as smaller objectives, but the ability to siege them down is a little too stronk I think.

tinythinker · January 2016

PhatGrimReaper wrote: »

tinythinker wrote: »

PhatGrimReaper wrote: »

tinythinker wrote: »

No ownership, anyone could repair. I dunno, might make the Sej-Alessia corridor more interesting.

Yea, because we need to give the PUGs another reason to die at the bridge.......

If you siege it down they have to jump the river or go to another bridge, no fighting over it if it's down.

Okay, but I want to use the bridge to get places..... Don't get me wrong, I'm all for the bridges being more important strategically as smaller objectives, but the ability to siege them down is a little too stronk I think.

There are three bridges between EP and AD territory, the one by Sej is closest to most routes, but the other two would be there. Anyway, just a random thought.

Telel · January 2016

WRX wrote: »

Id literally macro a player to siege it nonstop so it could never be repaired. Move pugels, move!

Telel has often said that if they could knock down bridges and faction owned resource towers then they would spend almost all of their PVP time purposely knocking them all over.

PhatGrimReaper · January 2016

Telel wrote: »

WRX wrote: »

Id literally macro a player to siege it nonstop so it could never be repaired. Move pugels, move!

Telel has often said that if they could knock down bridges and faction owned resource towers then they would spend almost all of their PVP time purposely knocking them all over.

+1

RAGUNAnoOne · January 2016

Umm that may cause a ***storm for daggerfall getting 2 pronged (more than usual) when people collapse the bridges and no one wants to spend AP to fix them so probably not a good idea unless rivers are added between DC EP and DC AD territories bridges are already a siegefest

tinythinker · January 2016

RAGUNAnoOne wrote: »

Umm that may cause a ***storm for daggerfall getting 2 pronged (more than usual) when people collapse the bridges and no one wants to spend AP to fix them so probably not a good idea unless rivers are added between DC EP and DC AD territories bridges are already a siegefest

That's why I added something about milegates.

Ghostbane · January 2016

Touch my bridge and you'll meet a swift end sir.

tinythinker · January 2016

Ghostbane wrote: »

Touch my bridge and you'll meet a swift end sir.

:sets up a couple ballistae:

gw2only1b14_ESO · January 2016

ita funny you mention this but back in beta we had hoped you could take out the bridges ( or at least the ramparts up top) and who knows it could spread players out as they will have to traverse other areas

But yea this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRHVMi3LxZE

KenaPKK · January 2016

I do not think it should be able to be damaged. You'd only end up making it impassible or flattening the towers, which are the interesting part. At the very least, you'd give people a reason to not go up in the towers, which defeats the purpose that makes the bridge so fun...

I do think that the bridge should have ticks, though.

Gates too.

And they should give campaign points, as should the other locations around the map that currently might as well not exist.

tinythinker · August 2016

There have been multiple mentions in-game the past couple of weeks about wanting to blow up bridges, so don't forget, there's a thread for that

Burning_Talons · August 2016

Just remove the slaughterfish

kevlarto_ESO · August 2016

I wish the bridges had guards and flags to capture, it would be cool to destroy the towers on the bridge but that would take a lot of work. I think it would be fun.

Anazasi · August 2016

only elves are smart enough to build bridges.

Recremen · August 2016

The bridges and milegates are the ONLY way to get into other territory, this is 100% a bad idea. You can already put siege on top of it and all around it, even forward camps, that's all the siege interaction I can really tolerate at those locations.

WhiteCoatSyndrome · August 2016

tinythinker wrote: »

There are three bridges between EP and AD territory, the one by Sej is closest to most routes, but the other two would be there. Anyway, just a random thought.

Not for long if they could be sieged down.

Having them give ticks would be nice though; they attract fights already, we might as well get ticks for them.

Valencer · August 2016

If they ever make the bridge siegable I will personally destroy it and keep it permanently tagged so noone can repair it. Maybe then EP will finally go take Chalman back!

Goshua · December 2017

</random rant>

Lucky28 · December 2017

PhatGrimReaper wrote: »

tinythinker wrote: »

No ownership, anyone could repair. I dunno, might make the Sej-Alessia corridor more interesting.

Yea, because we need to give the PUGs another reason to die at the bridge.......

dude, no. it would be priceless to siege down a bridge and kill everyone on it via slaughterfish. i mean come on, no?.

tinythinker · December 2017

Lucky28 wrote: »

PhatGrimReaper wrote: »

tinythinker wrote: »

No ownership, anyone could repair. I dunno, might make the Sej-Alessia corridor more interesting.

Yea, because we need to give the PUGs another reason to die at the bridge.......

dude, no. it would be priceless to siege down a bridge and kill everyone on it via slaughterfish. i mean come on, no?.

Oh yeah...

elfantasmo · December 2017

Recremen wrote: »

The bridges and milegates are the ONLY way to get into other territory, this is 100% a bad idea. You can already put siege on top of it and all around it, even forward camps, that's all the siege interaction I can really tolerate at those locations.

Except from jumping across the river at narrow points....

tinythinker · September 2018

At last... this will be a reality...

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

NBrookus · September 2018

Well this will stop the Sej <-> Alessia see saw, but nothing stands between Bleakers <-> Ales farm!

tinythinker · September 2018

NBrookus wrote: »

Well this will stop the Sej <-> Alessia see saw, but nothing stands between Bleakers <-> Ales farm!

The milegate between Chalamo and Bleaks can also be blown up (another thing i was hoping for in the OP).

All milegates can.

There will be narrow cave tunnels you can take from each territory to another so that a path will always exist. Or you can repair the bridges and milegates.

My vision is of trolls strategists keep bridges and milegates destroyed at all times, forcing traffic into the tunnel choke points...

lygerseye · September 2018

tinythinker wrote: »

My vision is of trolls strategists keep bridges and milegates destroyed at all times, forcing traffic into the tunnel choke points...

I had the same thought, but have a different take on it. That seems too easy to take advantage of, forcing all the big battles to be bottlenecked at the goat bridge or tunnels. Bridge battles are already a zerg-fest... That kind of battle will throw you into seizures with all the skills going off in such a tight place.

To balance, I think there should be an incentive for the home alliances (for example: Chal gate = EP, Ash gate = DC, Alessia bridge = AD) to keep them repaired, 1 point per structure. Otherwise, it’s just too easy to scuttle your own gates/bridges to keep the enemy out.

NBrookus · September 2018

tinythinker wrote: »

NBrookus wrote: »

Well this will stop the Sej <-> Alessia see saw, but nothing stands between Bleakers <-> Ales farm!

The milegate between Chalamo and Bleaks can also be blown up (another thing i was hoping for in the OP).

Ah yes, forgot about that milegate. May it rest in pieces.

Munavar · September 2018

I mentioned this in another post, the bridge\gates along the transit system (4 of the 6) should affect the transit route.