NinjamicWZ
Banned
I play like that pretty much, and will go a roundabout way to avoid patrols if I need to, but I stick with strategim priority. That always gives me enough cool down to throw a decoy either at every other objective or slightly between them. I'll let someone else throw the UAV, so I can keep ammo, recoilless and something to hold us down at the extract with. Recoilless is swappable for personal shield, rep-80, jump etc depending on race, planet and objectives.
...but you have to make serious time for that to work, before the 5 decoys are gone, if no one else brought any. I swear it's heaven playing with another decoy player who knows you're still in cool down.
I might try cardio solo sometime to get a feel for it. You're definitely right that "no, we gotta go this way" doesn't jibe with most players. I hate getting in screen pulling "negative" tug o' wars. Then you just have to go their way, knowing we have a slim chance of finishing from that point on.
EDIT: ran cardio, two decoys, and a combination of mech + nuke or 2 of each, with a new player on Suicide Mission planets and it worked out pretty well since capture points almost always fucked us over. The emergency run away speed really helped.
