Amphibious Dino/Platform Saddle

[TheRedDawg5]

Amphibious Dino/Platform Saddle

A lot of people play PVP. So I was thinking about raiding, how difficult and expensive it is to built an effective F.O.B. without getting caught. That’s why platform saddles are handy, you just move the F.O.B. with you! But the Dinos with platform saddles are extremely large, noisy, and slow, and almost all of them are herbivores! Well, Mosasaurs and plesiosaurs are fast, but their water locked. And then I thought of amphibious tanks, how they can move swiftly on land and in sea, so I think a amphibious Dino with a platform saddle would be an amazing addition to the game! It also has benefits to PVE players. Just build a base on it, and you can live off the resources at one location, and when all the resources are gone in an area, just move somewhere else, wait for resources to respawn, then go back! I think a mosa with legs would do the job, and look good at the same time. It would need to be an end game tame, expensive saddle, and will probably get nerfed more than fliers and gachas combined, but it would be a great Dino to have in the game.

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On 9/2/2019 at 7:26 AM, TheRedDawg5 said:

A lot of people play PVP. So I was thinking about raiding, how difficult and expensive it is to built an effective F.O.B. without getting caught.

It's a lot easier and cheaper to build a FOB than to build a base that's hard to raid. Offense is already too easy in PvP, compared to the amount of time it takes to build effective defenses. That's the main reason that more people don't play PvP, it's far too easy to get destroyed and lose the time spend building.

On 9/2/2019 at 7:26 AM, TheRedDawg5 said:

But the Dinos with platform saddles are extremely large, noisy, and slow, and almost all of them are herbivores! Well, Mosasaurs and plesiosaurs are fast, but their water locked. And then I thought of amphibious tanks, how they can move swiftly on land and in sea

Amphibious tanks are anything but swift on the sea. They have to be loaded on to a transport ship that's vulnerable and and has to be escorted by combat ships (just like a bronto with a platform saddle has to be escorted by combat dinosaurs). Amphibious tanks are terribly vulnerable during the landing action, with no defenses while they're coming ashore, and historically they have a fairly high  casualty rate while landing. It's only after an amphibious tank comes ashore that it becomes a threat to the defenders, which sounds a lot like those herbivores with platform saddles that you're not happy with.

All in all, it looks like WC already understands the analogy between mobile platforms and an amphibious landing, you're looking at amphibious tanks through rose colored lenses, imagining them to be faster, easier and safer to use than they really are.

On 9/2/2019 at 7:26 AM, TheRedDawg5 said:

I think a amphibious Dino with a platform saddle would be an amazing addition to the game! It also has benefits to PVE players. Just build a base on it, and you can live off the resources at one location, and when all the resources are gone in an area, just move somewhere else, wait for resources to respawn, then go back! I think a mosa with legs would do the job, and look good at the same time. It would need to be an end game tame, expensive saddle, and will probably get nerfed more than fliers and gachas combined, but it would be a great Dino to have in the game.

I agree that an amphibious dino with a platform saddle would be a great addition to the game, but not based on the analogy to amphibious tanks that you've come up with. The catch is that it should not be so easy to use in PvP that it replaces the existing herbivore platform saddles. It should be just as slow to deploy in combat as a bronto or paracer, and shouldn't even be remotely close to being as powerful as a mosa. The power should lie in the amphibious capabilities, which means the animal would have to be balanced in some other way to prevent it from being OP, for example it should be slow on both sea and land so that it has to be escorted like the existing platform land-animals.