Dominions 3000 (name confirmed!)

HoneyBadger · #1 July 30th, 2008, 02:32 PM

Lazers, realistically speaking, are invisible, so no real worries there.

Maybe space combat, etc. should just be a non-entity for now, as has been suggested. That way, we could still represent worlds that are too hostile to life, to enter without special equipment.

Aezeal · #2 July 30th, 2008, 06:44 PM

hmm troops in space could actially wear spacesuits armoured with heavy weapons (which troops can't carry on land to stay thematically) so they could fire on ships though

--> this would mean most troops would need an other form for when in water though (like oceania mages?): the interesting thing could be that all troops would be similar in space (water) while there could be vastly different in power on the ground.

(though I'd say militia should still be weaker in space than elites.. but the difference could be nice.. attack elite armies in space and not on land if possible so they are relatively weaker.)

you could then also make more space based races (more powerfull spacesuits) and more land based races

Troops in space province could be living in spacestations or something.

llamabeast · #3 July 30th, 2008, 06:52 PM

Oooh! The new patch will include the feature to set water-shapes for units. So you can have space-suited versions of units. For some they might be more powerful, like Aezeal says. For others they might be inactive. Perhaps bio-creatures change into chrysalids/spores in space, so they can't actually fight. Or humans might just be in little shuttle-pods, again unable to effectively fight.

That would be very cool.

Aezeal · #4 July 31st, 2008, 02:17 PM

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Darkwind · #5 July 31st, 2008, 06:42 PM

Well, I guess we might as well figure out what's going to happen. All of these methods of troop transport through space sound good, really. Which one should we use?

Also, how will we divide work (or will one person basically do everything)? What will we be aiming to do first, second, third, etc.? What should we aim for in the first playable version (the full thing, or the bare bones, or something in between)? Have we even discussed the specifics of most things? Will these questions ever end?!

Sombre · #6 August 1st, 2008, 06:37 AM

If you have any modding questions, just stick them up in the thread and more experienced modders will answer.

HoneyBadger · #7 August 2nd, 2008, 05:22 AM

I think the first thing to do would be to brainstorm as many nation ideas as possible, and start narrowing them down.

I also think we should start working on a Damn Big Map, and ideas for how we want it to look, and function.

As far as a working level of playability-Ideally, the nations we come up with ought to be playable against the existing ones. On the same level atleast. No need to re-invent the wheel, we just want to take the wheel into space.

I definitely want to be an active partner in the project, but I'm not going to be the one doing everything, because that's just not realistic of my abilities and time.