How about you place it on the ground, and then the 3 setting show how far you want the barrage to be? 1-3 = 1-3 sections. The area is just a general area similar to where you are.

Mortars should be fired at an angle, just clicking on the map is lame D:

I want a robot.

IDEA
If Ben doesn't want to make new stuff for the mortar, it could just be a small barrage of nades in the area.

You tell people not to bump old threads and then you get mad at them for starting new ones about the same thing. Make up your fucking mind.

and then people bitch about there already being a thread...
I've seen you do it beret

You see? let the older threads die and you get a reset on suggestions. Here we have Artillery raising it's head for the billionth time.

Or just shoot in whatever section the marker is in, kinda like a pyspades airstrike.

^^

+ When you fire the mortar at the marker, it should just be in an area around it.

Artillery should have anyone be able to shoot it, but to aim, you have to drop a marker. Every player has 1 marker, so your teammate can go behind enemy lines and tell you were to shoot artillery.

I wanna get in a crusader and just go around saying:
EAT LEAD BLUE SCUM! 'BOOM!' *SMASH*
RELOADING... 'BOOM!' *SMASH* ETC...

Artillery should work like this

Each teams artillery cycles through the players so that evreyone gets a go on the artillery roughly each 4 minutes depending on the players

When its your turn to fire the artillery you type /artillery (co-ordinates) and it sends out a special grenade on a random spot on the grid co-ordinates you specified. Its splash is slightly larger than an average grenades and cant damage buildings as griefers would abuse it

It also cannot damage players on your own team to stop griefing

Before each strike a warning is given out telling where the grenade is going to land on the grid and giving you ten seconds to get away

This system stops grifers and gives evreyone a go

Who cares if they bumped it- better to bring it to the fore again than let someone who doesn't know how to search start the exact same topic again and retread all this old ground.

And I said it before but I'll say it again: Choppers are passe. Blimps/Airships are the new black.

Well since it got a discussion going again, I don't think it's that bad.

Why the hell did you bump a month-old thread with information that's already been discussed 20+ times?

GET TO THE CHOPPA!

^^^
Yeh, also for epic escapes.

-Favela-
-4/5 Points-
-Small Squad with Intel-
-Helicopter Pilot-

*Flies down with Door Gunner*
*Door gunner sprays covering fire*
*Says: "GET IN NAOW*
*Everyone piles in*
*Epic Getaway*
*Ben adds in-game voice chat*

I was thinking with passengers that it could be used as troop transport.

I would image a heli having some basic controls, passengers, and a door-gunner.
1 Pilot
3 Passengers
1 Door Gunner.
The LMG for the gunner has 100 bullets. It (and the ship being repaired) getting restocked is by landing within 10 blocks of the tent.

not thinking about passengers, but the rest yeh. It can probably be made using psypades, it would just be made out of blocks in the shape of a heli, and to control, u hold space to go up and let go to go down. The shooting would seem like ur on a block while zooming, and the person shooting just preses ctrl to get out, same wit the driver.

They should have 1 person driving and another person shooting, along with some passengers.

I can c how heli's could work

Actually, Ben has said that this game is most inspired by the Vietnam War. And he said that there will be vehicles, but no tanks. Just planes or helicopters and boats.

Some things I would like to see:

+Make it possible for the server creator to set a certain map size. Right now it's 512*512 blocks, right? I'd love to see smaller maps like 250*250.
+A better editor (=give it non-insane controls)
+If you want to include new weapons, you need to nerf the headshots. Or make smaller heads.
+medkits/medic class or just something to heal yourself while on the field.
+map diversity: Randomly placed objects like houses/trees would be cool. Also some really steep cliffs.
+The player shoud be able to make harder-to-destroy blocks. Something that works like the shield in Magicka: Spam a button to boost the stability.

@CCG: For the sake of simplicity, let's just say that AoS is placed between 1890's - 1950's.

Artillery isn't a bad idea. I've been to this one server which had an airstrike function (You need 6 consecutive kills, kinda like MW.), real fun but not really effective unless you know exactly where your targets are. (It didn't level buildings tho, just kill players)

Sniper scopes? The current rifle's good enough, just get a more decent ironsight.

You guys are fucking stupid, grenades were invented by the Chinese in 960 B.C. so they are not out of place. As for the artillery, the first documented record of artillery with gunpowder propellant used on the battlefield was on January 28, 1132. Do your damn homework before you come on here and say that this shit wasn't invented yet. This game was not based around world war 1. Ben never even said it was that i'm aware of.

first thing you should work for is how to get rid of fucking idiots who are grieffing.

Isn't there like fucking 30 of these threads

@killirares this game is not based in WWI its more like Vietnam for the gun is Vietnam era the title is a Vietnam reference and a good bit of trench warfare happened in Vietnam as well as WWI. The game is not really based in a specific time period.

On the subject of Artillary (Howitzer)
I suggest for shooting, make the range at max', half the map from where it is (I suggest at the base). However you can only shoot in areas around a person. The range is up to 10 blocks around the spotter.