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[McDonald]

But remember to place your hovers above your center of mass!  It will fall over otherwise.

[Girlinhat]

that's also why I prefer hovers, if they flip me the only thing they get is even more guns shooting at them

I've never gotten into hovers. What benefits do they offer over straight-tanks?

Pros and cons?
They're usually quicker.
More weapon mounts, as the underside is usable as well.
Hovers don't need particular placement and can't be blocked - you can place hovers inside solid armor blocks with no ill effects.
Plasma has to score a direct hit, usually.
With some finaggling, you can climb mountains.
Higher firing platform for less obstructions.

They never sit perfectly still, making their aim fidgety for SMG and impossible for rail.
Built wrong, they'll flip extremely easily.
They have to be a generally lighter weight than tanks, or else they scrape the ground much more slowly.
The height means you often appear as an easier target (though you can drop down as well).
Tanks can use T1 wheels at all tiers, slowly, while hovercraft really need to maintain similar-tier blades, which are more CPU intensive.

My conclusions?  Hovers are good for fast attack craft, particularly if you can sport the armor to weather the priority targeting, and make decent plasma strafers.  They make terrible rail platforms, though you can mitigate this a bit by putting weak wheels on the bottom so you can drop and stabilize yourself before firing, then hover again to move quickly.  Hovers in general seem to function best as support or flank roles, not so much as front-line contenders but excel at slipping around quickly and getting behind things, as they have a lot of the same speed as a flier but without the 'in the sky' profile.

[Aklyon]

I've got a hybridbot that has survived more than one fight with half the bot being held up by thread and the hoverblades and the other half entierly unbalanced but stable due to wheels.

[crazysheep]

You can also throw on thrusters for even more high speed shenanigans with hovercraft. It makes things like a high speed medic hover viable and fun to play :3

Correct me if I'm wrong, but iirc thrusters and the speed limit of wheels don't play very well together, so it makes lower tier wheels on tanks less viable when paired with thrusters.

[Neonivek]

Hovers also have a nice exploit if you want a plasma cannon.

[tryrar]

Well, I've managed to widen and lengthen my Zero to accommodate 4 t7 plasmas:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The extra t5 airfoils were due to issues with climb rate from the increased mass(Though I THINK i could solve that by moving the t6s around, I just don't feel like bothering). This plus the two t5 jammers and the radar and I'm still only t6! Heh, guess I need all blue and two more t6 airfoils

[McDonald]

I just discovered something which lets me circle the map in around ten seconds. Yeah.

[TolyK]

Huge boosters on tiny craft?

[McDonald]

Nope, boosters have a rather low speed limit. Certainly not 10 seconds.  Try again.

E: Okay, you were pretty close. I use thrusters in a certain way.

[TolyK]

At an angle. Yup.
Square root of two (or three, if you go that far ).

[McDonald]

Gratz, you won a piece of my cake I was about to eat. Expect delivery in the nearest 250 years!

[Rose]

Damn

Now I need to see if it's possible for me to make a zepplin that uses that design.

Probably not easily.

[McDonald]

Wawawait,  did you mean placing them at an angle to each other? If so, I revoke your cake, I place them all in parallel.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

I wonder if they are ever going to include blocks that extend or retract.  Could make for some interesting designs.

[Rose]

One of the loading screens seems to show what looks to be a section that raises on hinges.

Spoiler: Edit: it's the box (click to show/hide)