Spring RTS Engine

How about more game modes, like capture the hill (by building a especial structure on it) or capture the flag? (The flag would be a imobile transportable unit that had to be loaded by a "transport building" to be capured)

This'd be better-handled by Lua mission-script.... but I don't know how well that works in multiplayer.

Here's my gamemode suggestion;

The battleground is divided to a grid, with a flag amidst every sector. Every player would have a sector of their own at the beginning. Controlled sectors would show all enemy units that are within them, and an alert would be given upon enemy forces entering a sector. If a sector was captured, all economical buildings within the sector would be transferred to the player who captured the sector.

A sector could be captured by having a unit be next to it for a minute. Only sectors that are connected to already-captured sectors could be captured, diagonally connected sectors do not apply. When an enemy is capturing a flag, the sector would flash red on the minimap.

The goal of the game would be to control all sectors. It should be optional whether a team loses or not upon losing all sectors.
There's an example of a 3x3 grid. The numbers represent two teams that control their respective sectors. Team 1 could capture a & c, while team 2 could capture g & e. If team 1 captured a, then they could also capture b & d. You get the point.

Another version of this gameplay could have a timelimit. When the timelimit ends, the team with the most territories would win. In some cases, that could also result in draw games.

You're planning for a Z mod, eh?

Be damned useful for Epic Legions and S44, that would

Would be good for any mod which could take advantage of a sector based resource system... think of Dune 1, I'd sure love that.

JJ45 wrote:Here's my gamemode suggestion;

The battleground is divided to a grid, with a flag amidst every sector. Every player would have a sector of their own at the beginning. Controlled sectors would show all enemy units that are within them, and an alert would be given upon enemy forces entering a sector. If a sector was captured, all economical buildings within the sector would be transferred to the player who captured the sector.

A sector could be captured by having a unit be next to it for a minute. Only sectors that are connected to already-captured sectors could be captured, diagonally connected sectors do not apply. When an enemy is capturing a flag, the sector would flash red on the minimap.

The goal of the game would be to control all sectors. It should be optional whether a team loses or not upon losing all sectors.

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+-----+-----+-----+
|     |     |     |
| (1) |  a  |  b  |
|     |     |     |
+-----+-----+-----+
|     |     |     |
|  c  |  d  |  e  |
|     |     |     |
+-----+-----+-----+
|     |     |     |
|  f  |  g  | (2) |
|     |     |     |
+-----+-----+-----+

There's an example of a 3x3 grid. The numbers represent two teams that control their respective sectors. Team 1 could capture a & c, while team 2 could capture g & e. If team 1 captured a, then they could also capture b & d. You get the point.

Another version of this gameplay could have a timelimit. When the timelimit ends, the team with the most territories would win. In some cases, that could also result in draw games.

Nice idea!

manored wrote:How about more game modes, like capture the hill (by building a especial structure on it) or capture the flag? (The flag would be a imobile transportable unit that had to be loaded by a "transport building" to be capured)

Good ideas.

rattle wrote:Would be good for any mod which could take advantage of a sector based resource system... think of Dune 1, I'd sure love that.

What if there was just a bunch of mex spots in each sector, on which you could quickly build mexes, in like half a minute?

Like growing features, a lot of gamemodes could be with bots.
For example the tic-tac-toe game: the bot just has to check if a player has units in this or that area. (bots can cheat to see the whole map)

If you control 3 areas in a line, the bot gives you control of a otherwise unbuildable super-nuke-silo

knorke wrote:Like growing features, a lot of gamemodes could be with bots.
For example the tic-tac-toe game: the bot just has to check if a player has units in this or that area. (bots can cheat to see the whole map)

If you control 3 areas in a line, the bot gives you control of a otherwise unbuildable super-nuke-silo

Or just commits suicide

knorke wrote: If you control 3 areas in a line, the bot gives you control of a otherwise unbuildable super-nuke-silo

oh god no.

this is all possible if the host has the given lua script. It just needs lobby support.

Just a case of making the lua script, plopping said script in startscripts and using Spring.exe directly to load it I believe...

Actually you can add a line to the script.txt file and it'll start the game with given parameters but with that lua script loaded too.

But I doubt anyone has seriously tested that in multiplayer games, right?

smoth wrote:

knorke wrote: If you control 3 areas in a line, the bot gives you control of a otherwise unbuildable super-nuke-silo

oh god no.

Tic-tac-toe!

Actually, a day after I found this out (ca. a week ago) me and my brother tested this and it worked fine :D ! Lobby support ! Where´s Betalord :) !? Why don´t I just check out the C# Lobby code and implement it myself !?
Howcome people don´t realize what an insane feature this is !?

I mean more then 1v1
I had indeed expected it to work more or less in 1v1. I'm not really sure how well it works in bigger games tho, I'd guess only 2 teams actually get created...

The resources gained from controlling zones would have to be shared in a team game, or otherwise it will be "you stole my zone" and ragequits.