Restrictions on Engies

[Shogun!]

Howdy Folks!

 

Any particular reason why engies are restricted to only planting a few mines at a time?  They must wait after 3 or 4 mines for about 30 seconds before they can plant again.  Havent seen that restriction on other servers.  They already have one hand tied behind their back not being able to do final objectives until half way through the game ("losing their wings") which I can understand if you want some killing before the map ends

.  Seems like engies should be able to plant until the teams allotment of mines is used up.  I mean other classes can use unlimited adren all map  long, give us engies a break  ,

 

Hope all is well with my server friends!  I must be a glutton for punishment with my 200+ ping and not using adren, but love your servers, even if they are across the Ocean

 

Walter Mitty 

[JoeDirt]

Since there are more then one engy on the team it would not be fair for that one guy to hog all the mines, the delay gives all engineers the opportunity to lay down their  respective mines.

[Tarzan]

On what server is this?

[D..X]

is that the only server that has it that way? ive never seen that on any other  of our server.

[Shogun!]

This is the Beginners server, and usually there are one or 2 engies at the most--most players go medic on these servers--Ive been on teams with 16 players, 10 were medics, the rest were other classes and there might be one or two engies.  Its tough to plant dyno as it is without 10 med whores drunk on adre rampaging around and all you got is a pair of pliers in ur hands lol.  Limiting an engie to only a few mines at a time probably works on non adren servers but it takes 3-4 even 5 mines sometimes to bring down just one medic on adren.  Still seems the engies are at a big disadvantage with these setting compared to other classes that basically have no limitations on any of their tools.  There is already a total mine limit, why limit them any more than that? 

 

Or::::::::::::increase the lethality of a mine--if you step on one, ur dead, no matter what your class or adren status.    and leave the rest of the mine settings alone.

Edited July 20, 2013 by Walter Mitty

[PokingSmot]

Is it because the "charge bar" doesn't decrease that they can plant as many as they want? If so then every engineer with a grenade rifle would be able to fire them in succession without any down time.

 

On a second note, if the Engi class is capable of using adrenaline, could they then place as many mines in the time it takes the adrenaline to wear off instead?

Edited July 22, 2013 by PokingSmot

[Shogun!]

Adre?  Ugh.  Dont ever use it, so not sure if it affects landmine planting or not--I doubt it.