Spring RTS Engine

Goal
The mod├óÔé¼Ôäós main goal is to encourage the player to both keep his army together, and to attack. Infact, the mod will seek to make attacking a vital part in the building of your army, but forcing players to choose their attacks wisely and not attack when they will lose units. This concept will be expanded on later.

Details
The mod will be based on the Tyranids race from Warhammer 40,000.

Game play will be somewhat like Nanoblobs in the high unit numbers with a few powerful units.

Most combat in the mod will be Close Combat (once I can figure out how to do it├óÔé¼┬ª).

Resource gathering will be slightly like Nanoblobs in that a non-combat (or extremely weak combat) unit will be the ├óÔé¼╦£resource maker├óÔé¼Ôäó, although it will actually only produce energy, and metal will have to be gained by ├óÔé¼╦£absorbing├óÔé¼Ôäó (reclaiming) the corpses left over after a battle (or features around the place).
The resource-makers/reclaimers will produce a small amount of metal however (very small).

Units will be controlled by a ├óÔé¼╦£synapse aura├óÔé¼Ôäó (as it was called for the Tyranids).
In Spring terms this means that any units outside of YOUR radar range will be unable to be controlled.
This encourages players to ├óÔé¼╦£group├óÔé¼Ôäó their units, and as only certain units will be radar/synapse units, it will also force the building of these units.

The mod will have no actual buildings, encouraging a nomadic, hit and run style game.

Units
Hive Tyrant:
Large radar/synapse range
Close combat and medium ranged - high damage
Builds:
Broodlord
Hormagaunts
Termagants
Rippers
Warriors

Broodlord:
Stealth (invisible to radar) with cloak ability
Close combat - high damage
Medium-to-high health
Does NOT need synapse
Builds:
Genestealer

Genestealer:
Stealth (invisible to radar)
Close combat - high damage
Medium-to-low health
Does NOT need synapse

Hormagaunts:
Close combat
Fast moving

Termagants:
Short ranged

Rippers:
Close combat - weak
Low health
Resource maker/reclaimer
Does NOT need synapse

Warriors:
Close combat and medium ranged
Medium health
Medium radar/synapse range
Builds:
Hormagaunts
Termagants
Rippers
Warriors
Gargoyles
Zoanthrope

Gargoyles:
Low health
Short ranged
Flying - gunship behaviour
Unable to be hit by close combat

Zoanthrope:
Medium-to-high health
Short-to-medium ranged - high damage
Medium-to-large radar/synapse range
Builds:
Raveners
Carnifex

Raveners:
Fast moving
Close combat and short ranged

Carnifex:
High health
Close combat and long ranged - very high damage
Slow moving

GoalThe mod├óÔé¼Ôäós main goal is to encourage the player to both keep his army together, and to attack. Infact, the mod will seek to make attacking a vital part in the building of your army, but forcing players to choose their attacks wisely and not attack when they will lose units. This concept will be expanded on later.

Details
The mod will be based on the Tyranids race from Warhammer 40,000.

Game play will be somewhat like Nanoblobs in the high unit numbers with a few powerful units.

Most combat in the mod will be Close Combat (once I can figure out how to do it├óÔé¼┬ª).

Resource gathering will be slightly like Nanoblobs in that a non-combat (or extremely weak combat) unit will be the ├óÔé¼╦£resource maker├óÔé¼Ôäó, although it will actually only produce energy, and metal will have to be gained by ├óÔé¼╦£absorbing├óÔé¼Ôäó (reclaiming) the corpses left over after a battle (or features around the place).
The resource-makers/reclaimers will produce a small amount of metal however (very small).

Units will be controlled by a ├óÔé¼╦£synapse aura├óÔé¼Ôäó (as it was called for the Tyranids).
In Spring terms this means that any units outside of YOUR radar range will be unable to be controlled.
This encourages players to ├óÔé¼╦£group├óÔé¼Ôäó their units, and as only certain units will be radar/synapse units, it will also force the building of these units.

Das Bruce wrote:Now we've got that little fuck up out of the way, and yes, putting it in a zipped doc to download was a fuckup, lets start with the mod.

Das Bruce wrote:

GoalThe mod’s main goal is to encourage the player to both keep his army together, and to attack. Infact, the mod will seek to make attacking a vital part in the building of your army, but forcing players to choose their attacks wisely and not attack when they will lose units. This concept will be expanded on later.

Sounds like slippery slope territory.

Das Bruce wrote:

Details
The mod will be based on the Tyranids race from Warhammer 40,000.

Does WH40K have problems with stealing IP?

Das Bruce wrote:

Game play will be somewhat like Nanoblobs in the high unit numbers with a few powerful units.

Most combat in the mod will be Close Combat (once I can figure out how to do it…).

Can't be done to any acceptable standard last I heard.

Das Bruce wrote:

Resource gathering will be slightly like Nanoblobs in that a non-combat (or extremely weak combat) unit will be the ‘resource maker’, although it will actually only produce energy, and metal will have to be gained by ‘absorbing’ (reclaiming) the corpses left over after a battle (or features around the place).
The resource-makers/reclaimers will produce a small amount of metal however (very small).

Slippery slope?

Das Bruce wrote:

Units will be controlled by a ‘synapse aura’ (as it was called for the Tyranids).
In Spring terms this means that any units outside of YOUR radar range will be unable to be controlled.
This encourages players to ‘group’ their units, and as only certain units will be radar/synapse units, it will also force the building of these units.

HIGHLY doubt you can do this.

Das Bruce wrote:Slippery slope means that once you start losing it gets increasingly difficult to turn it around. Depends on how much you're going to use metal but in general after the first main battle the winner will have all the metal and the loser will have a large defecit, the winner can then pump that metal back into their production while the loser has to deal with the trickle it can produce, this means the loser is much weaker in the next battle and very likely to lose, meaning the previous winner will very likely win again and gain all the surplus metal, the cycle repeats and makes it exponentially more impossible for the loser to regain any hope.

Das Bruce wrote:Also on close combat, some of the best spring modders have attempted it, annalysed how it works, and deduced that without a serious patch at the least it will not be a viable game mechanic.