I've played a bit of PA and wondering if there will be transport that can carry units on the same planet? Something like it was in Supreme Commander (with pickup and dropoff waypoints). And if yes will it be possible to load enemy units as well, for example enemy commanders } (yeah, yeah, I know, it's not Total Annihilation). Also would like to hear what other people think about it.
I fail to see the point of ground transport, seeing as how it'd just be a unit that could transport bots/tanks over ground that they can already move through... but air and naval would be great.
Well, maybe something heavy armored high speed. I don't know. Actually added that to poll just b/c wanted to give all options: we already have orbital, I'm definitely for air and naval, but maybe somebody would like ground and will make a good suggestion. And maybe game devs will listen to us.
Loading up enemy units is great. Neglect air defense at your own peril. The teleporter is an obvious choice for moving around the same planet. Other possible choices include unit cannon, air transports, forward base construction, or by simply using fast units. Artillery is not a great option because it pushes battle lines further apart. Push it too far and you create an unfortunately huge dead zone with nothing able to happen.
I think air transport would be really nice. Naval trasport would be bad ATM because naval moves so slow that at times it looks like its going backwards and ground would just be limiting. Air would be good because you do not have to worry about terrain.
Interplanetary Orbital aircraft- or groundunit transports that unload their load with being in the respective layers for air or near ground would do the job for almost every situation imo ... for ground i personaly would love a big transporthovercraft ...
Once you give players Air Transports, I don't see why they should use anything slower. Definitely needed.
Who says that every other transporttype has to be slow? And how do you want to know how fast an airtransport is .. who says that it will be fast to begin with? Other than that consider the possible ammount of aa options that can be used against them ... yup situational ... you might want to have alternatives
what about a hovercraft transport, a high speed ground and water transport. it would be especially useful on planets with lots of islands
If air transports held fewer units and were weakly armored, there would still be a use for slower, high capacity and heavily armored amphibious transports.
Of course. But I still think that in the maiority of the cases, one would end up using the fastest transport available. Speed and timing are king. In fact, they are strictly correlated.
