Profile of ThoseDeafMutes

Instead of causing caches to only provide teammates with half income wouldn't it be easier to just evenly divide the income provided by the cache between all teammates? For example in a 2v2 each player would get 1/2 the income of the cache, in a 3v3 1/3 the income, and in a 4v4 1/4 the income. That way the cache would take roughly the same amount of time (some rounding might be needed) to pay back the MP spent across all game modes and subsequently contribute far less to the resource inflation seen in larger team games.

You'd have to round it, so everyone got 1 fuel out of a fuel cache in a 4v4. But that's also a possibility, sure.

I've seen Soviet players steal USF tanks, people tank-trapping off their ally, indiscriminate artillery fire hitting friend and foe, and even an OKW player blowing up another player's medic truck because the truck's owner lost a KT. I've even seen an incendiary strike on an Ostwind that was drove right next to a USF Major, the US player killed the Ostwind but lost most of his forces to his teammate's indiscriminate firebombing. If you think 4v4 players won't destroy another person's cache in order to make one that actually benefits them, I think you're giving them too much credit.

Half of what you're describing is teammates trolling each other and the other half was bad coordination or accidental friendly fire. Neither of which is a reasonable objection to the possibility I outlined. You're making out like it's going to be some kind of common place thing that will significantly impact team games. That it won't work because killing each other's caches will be "part of the meta" rather than one or two dick players who are fucking with their teammates (and yeah I've seen someone drop an arty strike deliberately on someone else when we started losing once so I'm aware it can conceptually happen).

I'm not suggesting caches don't benefit teammates, but that they benefit teammates less than they benefit themselves. If this suddenly turns into a meta where significant numbers of people are killing each other's 200mp investments (that's almost the price of a squad) over something so short sighted, I will eat one of my 8gb ram sticks.

The reason OKW is so beastly in team games is because of two factors, the first being that it's significantly more difficult to outclass the whole enemy team than it is to outclass one player - weaknesses in build orders become drowned out by the number of players, single mistake from one player get compensated for by his teammates. Thus the idea of the Allies leveraging their (mainly USF based) early advantage becomes more difficult - the majority of games go to late game. The second is the proliferation of resources that OKW was never really balanced to be able to receive. I mean, you could just make it so caches don't contribute anything to OKW in general, but I'm sure the community would whine even harder about that.

You'd have to allow one point to hold up to 4 caches then, otherwise you'll just have friendly AT Guns and Mortars killing friendly caches so they can set up their own cache.

Well they can sabotage their own teams if they want but that seems about as likely to happen as killing your teammates squads so their weapons drop for your guys, and any idiot can see it would be a big boon to the opposing team. Big team games are heavily weighted towards OKW, who can't build their own caches anyway.

You could make Caches only share half resources with team-mates, or something to that effect.


And add Pershing doctrine

- Relic posting numerous (recent) open positions at the company
- Dawn of War community seems to be getting re-staffed on Relic's end and a bit of a shot in the arm.
- The WH40k license is not owned by Sega, and has reverted to Games Workshop, who have taken an open approach with it, allowing several companies to develop games over the last few years.





It may be too early for an E3 announcement, but it seems that it is likely under development. The series was rather popular so it's a bit of a no-brainer as Relic's next project.