Land Units

[belkheiri]

Is it possible to make land units like Tanks, Humvee's, nuclear MLRS et cetera...
Because naval units are boring me a little...

[denzil]

I do not believe it to be possible at this version of Defcon, should Introversion decide to allow additonal gameplay, such as you have suggested, then sure, but not at this stage.

[xander]

Is it possible to make land units like Tanks, Humvee's, nuclear MLRS et cetera...

No. Unless you set the entire world to sailable, then your sea units can cross the land.

Because naval units are boring me a little...

I certainly understand that. I am a bit bored with only only white and black pieces in Go.

xander

[denzil]

No. Unless you set the entire world to sailable, then your sea units can cross the land.

Saying that, you can make sailable the same as land (blanking the oceanic parts) and alter the fleet graphics to be vehicles, would need to change the text in the language folder also so it doesn't say "Submarine" with the picture of an APC or something... but yeh only way I can think of it working at current

[Montyphy]

Doesn't work, I tried. You wont be able to place land units and you wont have any cities. The game uses the mask of the inverse of sailable and territory in order to determine where land is.

[denzil]

Me and zanzer were just talking, if you made roads then it seems possible, have the vehicles follow nodes on the roads, with them set as water, the rest land so cities and buildings can be placed, structures shouldn't be built on roads anyway :p

[zach]

I've got an idea for "land" units:

Make the map have roads (as sailable terrain), that way you can have your land units "drive" on these roads. With intersections and everything, that'd work like bottleneck'ing land units, increasing your chance of avoiding those SCUD launchers from ever getting in range

EDIT: Yeah denzil, just steal all the credit, that's fine (kidding )

[xander]

Me and zanzer were just talking, if you made roads then it seems possible, have the vehicles follow nodes on the roads, with them set as water, the rest land so cities and buildings can be placed, structures shouldn't be built on roads anyway :p

How does that work with the 22 node limit that I have heard about?

xander

[denzil]

There's a limit of 22? Not heard that one before. If so that will guage the size and number of roads!

[zach]

I've heard it too...

Well, it just puts a limit on how many roads you can have, I suppose ...

[LutjeKabal]

Why dont you just draw a "terrain" road on the coast lines. You could make the whole map into sea and then draw 2 water borders next to each other at the coasts and make the space inside this 2 lines into terrain/ground. That way the "floating" ground units would not be able to reach the sea. Or is this not possible?

[Kuth]

This is a bad Idea

[extremejon]

Besides, what tactical value would land units have?

[zach]

This is a bad Idea

I don't think anyone would enjoy 'Land units' on the standard world map, no.
Of course, it would ruin the game if actual land units were introduced as the game is by default.

But pseudo-land units on a map designed for it? I've gotta say the idea sounds interesting at some point. Though it would gameplay-wise be no different from a game with rivers and lakes, it'd be a shame to block the creativity to spawn a mod showing 'pseudo-land-units' put to good use.

I say as long as people know what they're dealing with (and not asking to 'fix stuff' or 'make stuff more realistic'), there's no end to the creative possibilities in this game ~ But that's just me, anyway

[extremejon]

This is a bad Idea

I don't think anyone would enjoy 'Land units' on the standard world map, no.
Of course, it would ruin the game if actual land units were introduced as the game is by default.

But pseudo-land units on a map designed for it? I've gotta say the idea sounds interesting at some point. Though it would gameplay-wise be no different from a game with rivers and lakes, it'd be a shame to block the creativity to spawn a mod showing 'pseudo-land-units' put to good use.

I say as long as people know what they're dealing with (and not asking to 'fix stuff' or 'make stuff more realistic'), there's no end to the creative possibilities in this game ~ But that's just me, anyway

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