Scrin vs. Rebels (part 1) -, What to do about the rebels Options

[Team Black]

One issue with the two part release of Scrin vs. Rebels, is that the Rebels will have to be ditched for the second release.
What should we do about this?

Plan A: Scrin and Rebels will be incomplete/small factions have different tech, but IN PART 2, both side's technology will be COMBINED to form a complete Scrin side, which will be balanced to fight fairly against GDI and Nod
We might have to skip multiplayer in Part 1

Plan B: Scrin and rebels will be complete & balanced sides, available in single and multiplayer.
This will be a pain and a lot of time to do, and we'll have to ditch the Rebels for the second part anyways..

Plan C: Both Scrin and Rebels will have the same technology. This would enable a decent multiplayer, but it should be good enough to make a campaign out of.
and we wouldn't have the problem of creating a whole side just to ditch it in Part 2

Or something else. What should we do with the rebels?

be sure to stay on topic ;D

This post has been edited by Team Black: May 26 2007, 05:10 AM

[Bittah Commander]

Indeed.

Anyway, about the story you just made up... If you want to follow Westwood's original intentions as much as possible it's not gonna work. Ishmael stated that origin of the tacitus would be either that it's really the scrin bible or the sole prison for the Martian leader. The Scrin rebel leader isn't Martian, so that's not really going to work...

@Lightstorm: You do have good arguments about the Scrin fighting the Martians, but maybe it can be explained why the Scrin did not attack Earth right away. For instance, maybe when the Martians were fighting the Scrin, the sources on the Scrin's planet weren't depleted yet and thus the Scrin harvest the resources from other planets yet.
Also, at the time the Scrin were at war with the Martians, there might not have been (intelligent) life on our planet yet.

[ChielScape]

If you want to follow Westwood's original intentions as much as possible it's not gonna work.

to me, you seem the only one who wants that.
we arent westwood. its good to base the mod on westwoods intentions, but not to "follow Westwood's original intentions as much as possible". Westwood ain't no God.

[Lin Kuei Ominae]

and what i don't like is, why should the Tacitus-bible have information about technology. There would stand something about boring history things and persons. So how would you explain the existance of described technology in the Tacitus, while it's only full of Scrin culture and religion stuff.
Also a bible is in my eyes something old, out of date and useless for technology research.

This post has been edited by Lin Kuei Ominae: May 26 2007, 09:35 AM