1. If limits of each building are made (ex: 1 barracks only) then if someone places the building in a bad place the team could be screwed.

2. If there's no limit on buildings that can be built, bases will be impossible to destroy (3 obelisks)

My solution is to have PRESET positions for buildings, and you use the Purchase Terminal to buy them. I'm not sure if it'd be prefered to start out with buildings or you have to build from ground up or not, but i beleive that you should start off with the buildings, and make building prices inflated, as to keep the style of play relatively the same.

building prices would have to be VERY high, something like 3000 for a powerplant otherwise surgical destruction of a base would be impossible. To accomodate replacing buildings, destroyed buildings would have to collapse to rubble and dissapear.

my 2 cents.

I think it would be cool if there was a "pool" that players could contribute their money to so they could purchase buildings without using all of one person's funds. Maybe this could be used for vehicles too, although people would take advantage of it.

i also think that servers should have typical setting of one hour per map... given that around 30min is when the battle really starts to favour one side over another... (if the game isn't ended in the first 10 min that is).. of course this is just a server sett'n.. blah, neway

Instead of having a pool of credits seperate from your own which you donate to, when an engineer repairs a destroyed building it drains an equal amount of credits from every player on the team. Get it? Say you have 10 people on your team and a destroyed guard tower... When engineers begin repairing the building the cost of repairing gets automatically split equally among everyone.

Say the building costs 10,000 credits. Repairing would cost each player 1000 credits. For every second the repair gun shoots the damage building X number of credits are drained. It would take some math on the programmers part, but definitely nothing they couldn't handle.

Note: Buildings should not become completely functional again until repaired to 100\%.

Note: As perhaps a "supplement" to this idea from above, players on the team could vote to "opt in" their credits for repair. Personally I'm against this as assholes wouldn't vote because they'd rather spend their last 300 credits on a buggy to fight a mammoth tank.

Thoughts?

- Earls

Each team starts with 1 MCV and 10k creds. Only engs can drive and deploy the MCV, once he has deployed it, engs then purchase building (PP, REF...) kits and deploy them (in the RTS camera view as with the camera.ini MOD). Figure it would take about 4-7 minutes to get the base up and running.

You only get 1 of ea main building(except PP's), but can have multiple defense structures (with a limit determined by POWER), thats the key, remember that the more buildings you have the more power you need. With limited space, you must be wise in building the base up.

One team could just build a massive defensive base with no real offensive capabilities. This means the other team would have to become the attackers and could divert resources to offense.

If a building is destroyed the engs can purchase another kit if the MCV is still functioning. They would be able to recoup funds by "recycling" the destroyed buildings.

On REALLY REALLY HUGE maps, teams could set up multiple bases by reloacting the MCV. Imagine having two or three bases spread across the entire eastern side of the map.

That's basically why there aren't MCVs in the game now... as well as the option to build buildings. I found my idea attractive because technically, besides a few lines of code, no additional media/resources needs to be added to game. But yet it adds another dimension to gameplay.

OOM-9: If I understand your feedback correctly, you have seemed to misunderstood me. EVERYONE'S credits are drained when repairing buildings, not just the engineers. It's for the greater good of the team... so infantry, mobius, black hands... and the engineers on the team all contribute their credits.

- Earls

COOL HE??

i see, i see.

Guess I should stop reading posts at 1:00 in the morning

[ March 09, 2002: Message edited by: OOM-9 ]

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Originally posted by OOM-9:
I'd say we'd need a lot less n00b llamas if there's goingg to be any Engineer's willing to sacrifice their creds to help the team instead of trying to kill the enemy with their repair guns

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hahahaahhaha...that is the funniest

The best thing that has ever happened to me was when i was GDI and i stole a flame tank that had at least 3 Engineers healing it. So i was messing around killing Nod, while the dumb asses on the other team were healing me. I ended up acidentally killing them though. Man, that is the greatest.

For one, with my idea, you can't just buy/replace a building instantly. You're basically healing it from NO HEALTH to FULL HEALTH. So depending on how many engineers you have on the job depends on how fast a building gets "reconstructed." Without proper planning, building restoration will be a daunting task, but rewarding in many aspects.

Also remember that it costs credits to reconstruct a building. Teams that lose a building usually don't always have that many credits to spare, so building reconstruction is only an opinion, not a certainty.

Also, don't forget that when reconstructing a building under my proposed plan that the building does not become functional AT ALL until it's health is at 100\%.

I hope that addresses some of your concerns.

- Earls