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if tis option one, also make all shield block a new "EMP Bomb", which does 0 damage to units but utterly destroys shields... this allows the attacker (URC/NI) to eliminate the enemy easily, as they enemy normally has a good shield...

yeah that would be awesome

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ok, min3, why not? anything can be justified with cost... also, it only takes a couple of rocket units to take down air units...

esteroth12 wrote:option 1 if you give URC a light cannon mech...

As I currently see the energy weapons:

URC - Plasma&Fire
GD - Lasers&Ion
NI - Sonic&Lightning

so the shields would block enemy weapons... ie

URC - Lasers, Ion, Sonic, Lightning
GD - Plasma, Fire, Sonic, Lighning
NI - Plasma, Fire, Laser, Ion

but URC has no light cannon mech, and GD has both of their specialties

I agree this (shields blocking energy weapons, but those weapons do more damage) would be the most interesting way to go, though I reckon it would be best to just have each race with a shield that would block all 'energy' (ie laser, ion, sonic, lightning, plasma and flame) weapons (though of course it could still be battered down as usual) since a lot of the time races will end up fighting themselves in multiplayer.

But yes, this would require some kind of light/medium cannon mech for URC, which seems fair since they get it at level 3 anyways

actually, im pretty sure that there is a medium cannon mech, too... so fang only needs to add a light cannon mech and URC will be set

esteroth12 wrote:ok, min3, why not? anything can be justified with cost... also, it only takes a couple of rocket units to take down air units...

min3 has an automatic dislike for any "unit made specifically to counter another unit" and, despite the fact that he's an egomaniacal putz, I agree with him. Overcomplicated relationships of "unit X is made for unit Y" into some massive web of exceptions and tweaks is an annoying feature from StarCraft that has no place in a fast-paced mod.

how's it overcomplicated? its just a normal air unit with a special bomb

really, though... it gets shot down by normal AA... it's just effective against shields, not armor

An EMP bomber could also be used to show those clumped up GD tanks whats what! It also has the side effect of being a highly portibal air unit. It should also effect sheilds as A side note. Everyone love's the Ion cannon tanks, right? So this is just one of those. On a plane. In bomb form.

Another quick question, Fang. On the loading screen that shows the functions of the T2 mexes, what does it mean by "NI extractors assist in base expansion"?

I think they have nanolathers on them.

Zoombie wrote:I think they have nanolathers on them.

Yeah, that makes sense. Cool, so I guess they can build turrets and things?

Or do they just aid?

Well, they haven't been made yet, so Fang is probably the only person who can answer that...

that was the plan so we will see what happens

I think I will add a lvl 2/lvl 3 covert factory for URC that will produce only cloaked units..

Also what would everyone else say if I reduced the cost of all factories overall and shuffled some of that cost into the time to produce units...

would make it even more fun for me to spam lvl 1 factories all over.

I like the idea. But I don't play the URC.

I don't care for the thought of units taking longer to build personally.

Forboding Angel wrote:I don't care for the thought of units taking longer to build personally.

I agree, I'd rather take forever on a plant than forever on a unit.

Also what would everyone else say if I reduced the cost of all factories overall and shuffled some of that cost into the time to produce units...

I think that would be worth a try.
This way it would be usefull to build multiple factories of the same type, to produce fast enough.