Phase Gates Non-random?

Typhon · December 2002

I just noticed this yesterday when i was playing marines.

It might have just been coincidence, or me losing my mind, but I could swear that phase gates did NOT teleport you to a random gate. We had gates at marine start, command, and computer control on eclipse, built in that order. I noticed that whenever i stepped into a gate, i would pop out on the one that was built next. IE start -> command -> CC -> start etc.

Now, the impression i got from the manual was that when you hopped in a phase gate you got transported to a random one.

Can anyone confirm this?

virus · December 2002

afaik ur not teleported randomly around the map phasegates. Theyre linked to each other in some kind of circle.. if u jump in at marine start, then ur teleported to the 2nd build phasegate, then to third, etc. and then back to first.

pardzh · December 2002

Go in the order that they're built. That's why, if you want to get say to your outpost that's farthest away from the first phase gate, just keep going through them until you arrive.

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Sorry, I just had to make one of those little icon battles. Everyone else does it, so why not me?

Unknown · December 2002

i don't know but jumping from phase to phase just to get to one location doesn't seem how they would program it, why not select where you want to phase to?

Thansal · December 2002

to much bother?

also you know the number of times I have spawned Fed more ammo and just charged the gate b/c it was about 2 be taken down by fades? If I had to select wich one I wanted I would get very, very **obscenity**

meh, I like em as is <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'>

Khan · December 2002

I agree that it's probably better the way it is. Faster to hop in and out a couple of times then to have to select a gate.

On the other hand, it might be fun if it truly were random. This is, after all, experimental technology. Admittedly, that one time when the odds catch up with you and you're jumped between two gates six times before reaching the third, desired gate might be a mite irritating.

Marik_Steele · December 2002

Regardless of whether they're set up to transport randomly, in a big loop, or by a selection method, I'd still prefer for it to only warp you if you step on top of one and "+use" it. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'> Would help both teams, methinks.

Dan_Forever · December 2002

I'm pretty sure they teleport you to the latest one built, then the next latest.

So if you build one at marine base, hive 1 and hive 2 the order will be like so, if you jump into the marine base one:

hive 2, hive 1, base

Phase Gates Non-random?

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