What about creeping?
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Yeah, that's because it's already almost possible that I don't bash the idea as completly stupid and waste of developpement time, but consider it something that has a good (use, interest / developpment cost) ratio.
I'd like a better map editor, allowing to place features and maybe units.
I'd like each map to be able to have its "script", that can be used online, and explanation on how to write such scripts. Like in TA:K (or, shock! Starcraft).
I'd like a better map editor, allowing to place features and maybe units.
I'd like each map to be able to have its "script", that can be used online, and explanation on how to write such scripts. Like in TA:K (or, shock! Starcraft).
BAH!!! The only people who say that a backround is poor and restrictive dosent have an imagination! Think a galxiy is big... right! To qoute douglas adems "Space is Big....realy big! I mean you may think its a long was down the street to the chemist but thats just penuts to space! and so on". So theire a litteraly billion's of planets that have nutral goverments, alien life forms, lost colony's ext. I mean several maps can become quite explosive in the beggining (cause in the game's iv played the beggining is manly building a base and waiting till your amiy is done.... in other words BOREING!) if their is a nutral goverment that will fight both side's equally.TA backround is _very_ poor and very restricting.
What would you do if two super power's started to fight over your homeworld? I would be pissed as all hell at them, cause ITS MY PLANET! So its understandable that some of the population would want to join your fight, giving you new and exeting units, while others would want to blow the hell out of you. Also id like to bring attention to one of my idea's that i bnrang up in another thread.
See your commander is you, right, so if he dies who the hell is commanding your army? So i think that if the commander die's then the rmnints of your base and army would pull into a small corner, or hole, in the map and dig in. Then anyone who gets in their predefined terriroty, whitch would probebely around their factory, would get shot. So they would fortify but they wouldent want to get in the way of the more belligerent superpower's on the map. Maby a rudementery form of diplomacy can beginin, where you can threaten and cocer sever small settlements around your territory into mining for you.
Also id like to say one last thing that has little to nothing to do with this topic. Its just that iv been looking around the forum a lot and noticed that whenever someone brings up a cool idea, sometimes people will shout at them about how "ITS NOT LIKE THAT IN TA", or some such noncece. or they will say "THIS WILL TAKE TO MUCH DEVELOPMENT TIME!" and that just pisses me off. If we didnt want to do ANYTHING different from TA then WHY THE HELL DID SY MAKE SPRING. Also do people realy think that we can even possibly begin to even contemplate makeing some things up ourselves. I say if they put something in some one somewhere will grab it and run with it, and suddenly a whole new modding frenzy will get kicked off by some one's bizzar idea's. Maby someone will make a map where half the battle is a massive metropolice of third party units that attack the players. Or maby a jungle world where the plants will attack your units, and the ARM would need to slowly clear the foliage with Pewewee's and other firestating units, while the CORE just use's Pyro's. Or maby a ice world where units that stay still for too long will get entirely snowed in. And then add to that mix nomadic huminoids that will steal units that get snowed in. THen suddenly you might find some belligerent nomad's with a hodge podge of Bulldog's, AK's and (if your stuipid enough to leave it sitting around long enough) Krogoth's. How abouta giant gass bag forest (gee weve never heard that one before!) Exept now the gass bag's do insane amounts of damage as they explode, youd be stuck with lasers and very very low powered missles and plasma shots. Or you could fly a construction plan above the gas bag's and drop a match....
How about their can be an entirely new game type. Conscription! You need to take controll (not destroy) as many nutral town's as possible, then press the new troop's into service. then, to make it even more interesting, you could not be able to make new units till you have to body's or minds ito fill it. So the CORE could grab a town and set up "Borgifying" stations where the pesentry are fed into patterning deveices. The ARM could have "JOIN THE FIGHT!" Phamplets dropped by bomber onto the town's. OR send them food (after burning their granirys down!
) and then whatch the hungry rabble signe up as fast as possible. Also what about planets with natural dissaters, so you have to worry about metorites, erthquakes and volcano's. Where you can flote Lava mine's on rivers of magma, and set up massive Volcano Topper's that cover the volcano's crater and suck the gasses and magama out of it. This planet could also be prone to breaking up, where parts of the ground might suddenly sink into lava, or a random nukclear strick could blast a min island off to slowly sink into the lava. That is, the mini island with your base!
. How about gass giant planets, where your base's are built on ancient (possibly failing) anti-gravity platfoms constructed by an alien race. THen you could try to blast the anti-grav part then whatch the enemy tumble into the jovian atmosheer! Why not have ringworld maps, or a map set in a giant cylinder that rotetes to produce gravity. You could alsomake a Aldersons Disk! (boy oh boy!).
Why not have bizzar planets where anceint and unnameble forces prowl the runi's of lost city's. Maby youl find a doom's day wepaon. Or maby youl wake something up...
How about space station bording mission's, where you can get thrown off the outside of a spining station by centripidal forece. MAby bloody battle's in the corridor will blow up the wrong air lock! Maby youl gest get a comando inside to blwo the anit-matter reactor.
How a anceint alien platform in a decaying orbit around a sun. So as you try to secure the platform and its bizzar technology's, it will slowly drift into the sun!. As it begins to damage your units and buildings through heat, the gravity will also incree's as the sun's pull incresses.
Why not fight on massive metal planets, where ancient fusion reactors could mean a wrong shot could incinerat the map, unless you get to the sewers, then fight it out in dripping tubes and underground aquiducts.
And this is what i thought up in five minuts. Most of those minuts i used typing too!