Tesla's: Yay or Nay

[Snake]

I'm honored ... to know that Kaine reads my blog).

Religiously, my friend. 

Whats his blog

[TinMan]

http://web.mac.com/onestagehand/iWeb/Site/Blog/Blog.html

Now stick to the topic, lawl.

[Paradox]

I didn't know anyone worth their beans in blogging still did it with desktop software, except desktop publishers like Zotero or MarsEdit.

[player1]

Trust me, that "blog", as well as my site-making skills, ain't worth beans. That's the results of having a dot-Mac account, getting iWeb bundled with the MacBook, and spending 3 minutes every other week in a vain attempt at sarcasm. Kaine, who knows his way around forum-posting software (or at least how to click on the "Quote" button to see where the image is being hosted) has long known about my crappy "blog". We spend late evenings here every three months or so, laughing our asses off, as Lava deletes posts faster than we can write them. Which reminds me, I still have an image or two to post to my "site". I imagine TinMan either remembered it from my old sig, or also knows how to quote a post. Point taken, Paradox, it is an end-user bottom-feeder sort of site, isn't it? And Snake, you obviously fail at many things related to copying, pasting and clicking on things. But thank you for your interest.

P.S. Couldn't you guys have just left him in suspense? I wanted to see how long it would take, unassisted.

@Kaine:

On-Topic: Mostly nay but sometimes yay.

[TinMan]

@Player1: I just looked for you pic in the pictures thread, right clicked, looked at URL, etc. Dug it up again.

@Paradox: I don't get what you mean by desktop publishing, you mean not just typing in a web api?
I type stuff up first, copy and paste it to my wordpress, publish. I used to use nanoblogger, I'd go back to using it too if they'd fix the very few bugs that have been submitted in the past couple years.

[Snake]

No way </3

Well, and about teslas, i just prefer dont build them, i build the defense computer but not the teslas because them are snipable, and a rant finish them so easly, but is more because them are snipable (Instead that i build my sky base on Uncreation, where i build teslas to prevent lisks and dretchz, and them are hard to snipe)

But in places like atcs, a good number of rets can kill everything (and are hard to snipe)

[Lava Croft]

People that keep on saying that the fact that Tesla's are snipeable is bad should stop smoking crack and look at how their Turrets, Armoury, Medipad, Telenodes, Defense Computer and Reactor get sniped. Game after game. If your Teslas get sniped too easily, you probably just have misplaced them.

Or, a single Tesla somewhat away from your vital structures, but close to the edge of your base, is a great way to make just about every Advanced Dragoon waste Barbs trying to snipe it. This makes most of them lose attention for your vital structures, since 'OMG evil Tesla! Noob Human builder, I'll snipe it nao!'.

[Snake]

People that keep on saying that the fact that Tesla's are snipeable is bad should stop smoking crack and look at how their Turrets, Armoury, Medipad, Telenodes, Defense Computer and Reactor get sniped. Game after game. If your Teslas get sniped too easily, you probably just have misplaced them.

Or, a single Tesla somewhat away from your vital structures, but close to the edge of your base, is a great way to make just about every Advanced Dragoon waste Barbs trying to snipe it. This makes most of them lose attention for your vital structures, since 'OMG evil Tesla! Noob Human builder, I'll snipe it nao!'.

*Smokes crack*

*gives some to lava*

*punch him on the head because he finished it, and didnt leave anything*

[ChaosSquirrel]

While I personally love Teslas because of the turret-tracking issues, I must say they they *ARE NOT* the one. However, if placed wrong, they can make your base quite snipeable. Which is *BAD*.

[daenyth]

The only time I would use teslas on a normal server is if it was running 1.2. Without infinite BP, without other mods, and on normal maps, it's just not worth it.

[Samurai.mac]

It's sometimes useful to stick one in the middle of a small base, they can hit pretty much anywhere without having to aim first, which is their major advantage over turrets. Turrets are better for the first line of defence, but teslas make great backup just incase anything gets through.

[Sanity]

The thing with telsa is that they use more BP than turrets, are weaker than turrets and have less range than turrets, along with the fact that you need a DC for them. Its almost impossible to make a DC unsnipeable as there are normally very few "unsnipeable" spots in the default base, which are usually reserved for the all so important arm. In Sudden death, a base with telsas is normally screwed if the DC is ever sniped, which is very easy to do. Which ends up making all Telsas useless, and because you spent valuable BP on telsa and DC the few turrets left arent going to do much to protect the base between some very hungry tyrants.

[Snake]

The thing with telsa is that they use more BP than turrets, are weaker than turrets and have less range than turrets, along with the fact that you need a DC for them. Its almost impossible to make a DC unsnipeable as there are normally very few "unsnipeable" spots in the default base, which are usually reserved for the all so important arm. In Sudden death, a base with telsas is normally screwed if the DC is ever sniped, which is very easy to do. Which ends up making all Telsas useless, and because you spent valuable BP on telsa and DC the few turrets left arent going to do much to protect the base between some very hungry tyrants.

+1

[Plague Bringer]

The thing with telsa is that they use more BP than turrets, are weaker than turrets and have less range than turrets, along with the fact that you need a DC for them. Its almost impossible to make a DC unsnipeable as there are normally very few "unsnipeable" spots in the default base, which are usually reserved for the all so important arm. In Sudden death, a base with telsas is normally screwed if the DC is ever sniped, which is very easy to do. Which ends up making all Telsas useless, and because you spent valuable BP on telsa and DC the few turrets left arent going to do much to protect the base between some very hungry tyrants.

+1

qft
+2

Oh, and to whoever was asking before, these are the things I applaud people on.

[Lava Croft]

You always have a few BP left with a 'default' base configuration featuring 2 Telenodes. So if the game requires it (read: jumpy Aliens try to ninja your base), building 1 or 2 Teslas will not hurt that much.

[temple]

Never seen the need for more than 1 tesla.  With people defending the base, never seen the need for telsas.

[Bomb]

I usually build a single tesla at each entrance to the base, hidden around the corner so aliens can't blob/snipe it. This makes it virtually impossible for small aliens to get in.