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Modification Help / Re: Mini Empires Role Playing Game (Idea)
« on: September 01, 2015, 02:26:41 PM »
It's a great idea all around, but there are a few things I wanna point out-
- Why use pipelines? The only time I ever build pipes on a MERP is for oil and water. Roads would make more sense, and would take less work to make for the mod, just make plate bricks that merge together as you build, and if they are within 5 studs of a harvester, then resources transfer.
- the vehicle plates would have to have a lot more variety. It's fun and all to have troops that take up a 1x1f, and most servers a tank is like a 2x3, but personally my tanks are 12x5 (not including the barrel). While you could, say, place a 2x4 vehicle plate down then place a larger plate on top to support the whole vehicle, now it's floating 2 plates above the map. So perhaps explore the possibility of a larger variety of plates, and keep in mind the giant spaceships that Kris, Gentwoo and myself like to build.
- resource bricks should be place-able by the host, then when activated by the host they're open to be claimed (in RP terms) and when someone else clicks (or if the host clicks) they claim it as their own. The owner of the resource brick can also free up the resource if they want to give it to another player
It would also be neat to have some kind of GUI, so you know how many factories, vehicles, troops, resources, etc you have. You could take this all a step further with population bricks for houses (power merge, each 1x1f is 1 population), power/electricity, etc
overall a really neat idea, I'd love to see this implemented into the MERP community
- Why use pipelines? The only time I ever build pipes on a MERP is for oil and water. Roads would make more sense, and would take less work to make for the mod, just make plate bricks that merge together as you build, and if they are within 5 studs of a harvester, then resources transfer.
- the vehicle plates would have to have a lot more variety. It's fun and all to have troops that take up a 1x1f, and most servers a tank is like a 2x3, but personally my tanks are 12x5 (not including the barrel). While you could, say, place a 2x4 vehicle plate down then place a larger plate on top to support the whole vehicle, now it's floating 2 plates above the map. So perhaps explore the possibility of a larger variety of plates, and keep in mind the giant spaceships that Kris, Gentwoo and myself like to build.
- resource bricks should be place-able by the host, then when activated by the host they're open to be claimed (in RP terms) and when someone else clicks (or if the host clicks) they claim it as their own. The owner of the resource brick can also free up the resource if they want to give it to another player
It would also be neat to have some kind of GUI, so you know how many factories, vehicles, troops, resources, etc you have. You could take this all a step further with population bricks for houses (power merge, each 1x1f is 1 population), power/electricity, etc
overall a really neat idea, I'd love to see this implemented into the MERP community
