So I was wasting some time playing angry birds on my dad's I pad...Then I figured you could actually do something that silly in bz2. I have not figured out the model design yet, but I figure something like a recy size baseplate sunk in to the ground in the middle with a flat top pyramid platform in the center. A gun tower, with no ai, its turret axis at the middle of the platform, but its gun and eyepoint set back so it can be dropped below the platform. A mag cannon firing ever stronger harmless magnet shells.
One thug operates it to fire his team mates ships across the map at the enemy base... What? I though everyone liked flying!
The sling in FE, Rd actually saved it in the new FE patch somewhere because I made a crazy idea like this at some point. Can you imagine looking at up while in your base and seeing a Mauler (or a Gorgon) flying over to your Rec, land and start spitting!! lol
The idea of slinging pilots from armory has been an idea I've put forth many, many times.
when i first started modding back in 2003, i modified the armory to sling soldiers and daywreckers and anything else i thought to try. i called the soldier paratroopers. could also sling a gameobject that spawned a flaremine that spit out soldiers/whatever.
This idea is primarily intended to sling players or any other tuggable type object that can be got into the device.
I just posted it here In the hope that someone else might find the time to make it