Ideas from the original thread, split, for organization Options

[Team Black]

5-21-07 - Team Black - I split these posts off of the original thread, from before the forum was made. I put them here because they're ideas.
It would seem natural to put em in the IDEAS thread, now wouldn't it?

OK here's my first idea: How about in this mod, we make a TS2CNC3 total conversion, as much as possible we can bring the CNC3 stuff into TS.
Unfortunately I don't exactly own CNC3, so I wouldn't know just how much CNC3 stuuf TS might be able to work with, and I wouldn't be able to really head up a mod like this.
Obviously, we won't have helipads holding 4 planes, and we won't be able to do the multiple build ques, but I think there's enough stuff that IS possible to be able to make a decent mod with.

What say you?

This post has been edited by Team Black: May 22 2007, 01:17 AM

[Lin Kuei Ominae]

some more ideas for the Scrin

Units:
Their units are very strong and powerful, but to their disadvantage the most of them have to deploy before using their full strength.
Due to their energy based weapons, deployed units are supported with energy from the Base. (Powered=yes) So if the base is low on power all deployed units shut down and become an easy target. The power consumption of the units shouldn't be very high, so even a big army can deploy and still work. (e.g. Power=-5 to -25 while an energy upgrade [see base] gives about 200 energy)

Base:
the base is almost mobile. Every building is something like a big ship that lands and deploys (using hover logic with a raised floating height).
They only use 4 or 5 different shiptypes to fulfill all needs for a base. To reach that, the deployed Ships can be upgraded. They also can undeploy and move to a different location, but then all upgrades are lost. (someone should test this: Are upgrades sold for undeploy or do they only disappear? Do upgrades even stop undeploying?)
What we would need are then a (in brackets some nameideas for the ships)
Warfactory ship: produces heavy ground units
Barrack ship: trains basic infantry
Carrier ship: landing pad for air units
Conyard ship (Mothership) with 3 main technology research pods. possible upgrades: adv. infantry tech, adv. tank tech, mech tech, air tech, base tech, superweapon
medium sized multipurpose ship (Pontoon) with 3 upgrade pods. upgrades are: energy (replaces the power plant), silo, radar.
Refinery ship (Exploiter,Extractor,Ripper) with 2 upgrade pods for siloupgrades; it also has the carryall ability to carry the corresponding Harvester. (to test if carryall logic and deploy logic works together)

the main problem i see, is the ai, that could get some serious problems with the upgrade based architecture,
and of course the quality of the ships. If they are voxel, the corresponding shp's have to fit.
Another problem is the hover logic in combination with the deploy logic. A hover unit that should deploy, doesn't land before. So the landing animation has to be in the deploying anim. But after undeploying, a hover unit allways starts from the ground, and due to the fact that deploy and undeploy use the same anim, the unit would start fly with deployanim, and then jump to the ground, because now the hover logic begins to ascend the unit. (maybe there is a way to raise the ascending speed of hover units, so it isn't visible anymore, that hover units always start from the ground)

This post has been edited by Lin Kuei Ominae: May 16 2007, 02:42 PM