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  So many times as a gunner in a lib or gal and I have bashed a target down to about 10% health and the pilot decides to hit the afterburner and the recipient of so much Freedom^TM gets to survive.[/pissed off]

  Also.  Purchased the second burster and ripping aircraft faster than before, it is wonderful.  One lucky engy doing the repair rounds while I was ruining the duco on some scythes, actually dropped an ammo-pack for me and whenever he heard me start up firing, he'd come back and drop a new one, keeping me supplied for almost an hour, he only had to repair my MAX once when an infil snuck up on us.
  Odd thing is, the burster with the ex-mag has 210 ammo-pool, while the new burster has 224 ammo-pool, the addition of the ex-mag has really fucked up the MAX at the moment.  I think the extra ammo-cannisters I'm investing in must also be completely throwing things off.  I'll take them off today and look at the results, see if I can nail down which bits are causing the problem.

What is better to spend my next 1k certs on?

Option A: Get the Skyguard for the lightning and then concentrate on developing the tank for best effect....
Option B: Get the second Burster and develop the MAX to the, um, max......

Just fifty certs short of the target so I'm getting in early.
I have developed my engy as far as I need to at present, there's still things to upgrade but I want to branch out a bit.  My skills with the AA turrets and the one Burster are the major motivation for getting my own AA platform built.

I value any input/insight you guys care to offer.

20 minutes after the alert sounds, the 4th faction determines the fate of Amerish.  Most of the Vanoobs have switched to NC dropping from 35% and they were already the most active on Amerish before the alert sounded.  The TR buggered of to Indar, as they always do during an alert.

NC claimed the continent with 50-odd minutes left on the clock.

NC engy's on Briggs suck.

Last night while there was an alert on Esamir, the NC got waprgated on Indar, a valiant bunch of randoms fought the ever-encroaching red tide, but the calls for ammo became common and ignored.  My MAX ran out of AA so I did the long run back to the warpgate, and instead of resupplying, I decided to swap to engineer and support the half dozen infiltrators sitting in the defensive tower, plus the single medic who was raking in exp healing and reviving.  As soon as I arrived and dropped an ammo pack, the infiltrators were like a swarm of blowies discovering a fresh dog turd.  A plentitude of thanks were sent my way and I didn't look back, whenever my ammo pack vanished, I put down a new one, the exp points rolled in constantly.  I was not slack though, with the Warden in hand, I was spotting and picking off targets where I could, mainly getting kill assists cause the Warden still doesn't OHK, and the TR know not to stand still.

It was a rewarding evening.  I logged on at the perfect time with 8 minutes left of an Amerish alert, which NC scored a 94-ish% completion, then the Esamir alert which NC scored about the same - we just can't quite get the last two regions before time runs out.

Something was revealed though that the developers might have to address - the 4th factioneers.  Several guys were openly proud of the fact that whenever an alert is about to finish, they look at who has the most territory and relog as that faction, idling in the warpgate for the completion, then go back to their main.  It seems to be mainly VS just looking at the population levels, but TR guys were making claims as well, a whole conversation about it /yell'ed for all to read.

?  They had to have a poll to find out this information?

Three nights this week, during prime playing time in Australia, Briggs has been shut down for around three hours.  So frustrating.  Went to Matherson, but being 3 AM server local, very few players.  Gonna give up on Planetside 2 for today and hope they get their shit together by tomorrow when I expect to put in a solid, uninterupted, crash-free 30 minutes.  FFS.

VS MAX don't fight alone you know. Plus it can still put more rounds into you unless it has both AA guns.

With the NC MAX, the best weapon is the AA weapon, both of my kills with the Burster were against infantry, but I haven't really been playing MAX for long.  And the recent MAX shotgun nerf means that I won't be using the scattercannon much, even though I have bought slugs for it.

Speaking of which, anyone had any experiences with the Extended Magazines not working?  Sometimes when I am forced to resupply - I get ignored by nearby engineers who don't want free experience - the magazine does not fill up to the extended capacity, but its original capacity.  Might also be complicated by the extra ammo cannisters I'm packing.

Because of all this VS MAXes suck talk I've been trying to take them on 1v1 as NC LA, and it's not working out at all. Please cease and desist

I logged in, got out my trusty tape measure and discovered I was shooting them at 215 metres, almost a whole magazine of 20 shots plus a few from the next, so they are not an easy kill.  I know there were a few non-OHK headshots in there because of the way they were flinching.  The engineer went down after three or four shots.  (Can you tell I like the Warden?)

Also, does my aim suck, or is there no headshots on MAXes?

I have only ever scored one headshot on a MAX and that was during the open beta, never got that close to a MAX again and I'll bet that the TR MAX is still wondering how the hell that happened.  (Don't go toe-to-toe with an NC Heavy with a fully certed Guass SAW, that's all I have to say).

I have the game, +10 karma to you.