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Supreme Commander style mod

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A Supreme Commander style mod woild be cool

Yea, Supreme Commander is why I got in to spring
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6%
Yea sure why not
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No, if I wanted that I'd go buy Supreme Commander
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No way Supreme Commander sucks
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Total votes: 53

Dead.Rabit
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Joined: 03 Sep 2005, 04:28

Post by Dead.Rabit »

actually when u zoom out enough (on a big enough map and have your settings set low enough) the commander is replaced by its symbol.
D.R
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Zoombie
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Post by Zoombie »

That happens on every map, not matter how small. Once you hit a certen level of zoom, everything becomes Icons.
GusBus
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Joined: 23 Mar 2007, 02:43

Post by GusBus »

i guess that the feature's of spring is just not enough for this guy. he need's more!
look i dont think you can get much better then spring
you dont need a supcom clone
look to some other dev team that would appeal to the idea
but this is one team that does not
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Snipawolf
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Post by Snipawolf »

No! No! We can pretty much do most of the stuff in SupCom already, so we can have the mod made like that. Do remember, mods are not made by the devs, mods are made by modders, and engines are made by the devs.
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gamer17
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Post by gamer17 »

My settings must be wrong, because I dont get any icons when I zoom out.
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zwzsg
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Post by zwzsg »

I think the "units turn into icons when zoomed out" depends on the mod.
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1v0ry_k1ng
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Post by 1v0ry_k1ng »

no, unit turns into icon depends upon 1) the units footprint 2) the "Icon Distance" slider in settings. if you want to play supcom ASCII wars then turn the slider to 100 and watch those circles have it out. jesus. why do people WANT icons? now the PC has perfect 3d, everyone wants their games to be like old dos sidescrollers again.
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KDR_11k
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Post by KDR_11k »

When you zoom out too far you only see grey blobs anyway, icons at least tell you whose team those blobs are on, possibly even what units they are.
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Neddie
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Post by Neddie »

1v0ry_k1ng wrote:no, unit turns into icon depends upon 1) the units footprint 2) the "Icon Distance" slider in settings. if you want to play supcom ASCII wars then turn the slider to 100 and watch those circles have it out. jesus. why do people WANT icons? now the PC has perfect 3d, everyone wants their games to be like old dos sidescrollers again.
Because even a monster computer has limits.
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rattle
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Post by rattle »

You don't have to zoom out much to be unable to decipher what team the unit blobs belong to, icons are a good addition. Also you can just disable them if you don't like them.
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