Confirmed features and suggestions

Did I meantion I'd really like an alpha access tier somewhere between $50 and $100?

Neutrino, what do you think about a +MAKEPOSTER command for PA? I loved the function in TA, and it would be great to see it return. Being able to take a huge screenshot at a specific level of zoom with full LOD across all units/trees/features/wreckage/etc would be amazing.

I'd like to suggest that we have an army painter similar to the one in the Warhammer 40k games. A significant extension would be the "armor sets" seen in Space Marine, which allowed swapping specific armor piece models as well as adjusting the color scheme.

The painter alone would allow much greater flexibility with visual layouts while still using predefined textures/colors. I don't know how easy it would be to tell units apart for 40 players if we're only using primary colors, so allowing greater variance would add some uniqueness in spite of us all having the same toolbox of units.

In the event one hasn't played DoW or Space Marine, here's a youtube demonstrating the army/armor painters in action:

http://youtu.be/flFs0F6kJpI
http://youtu.be/IlurHvYx0Ro?t=2m33s

Frankly, I don't agree with an army painter. At this point there are only 4 colors Total per unit;

Yellowish-Orange/Red(This is clearly the Team-Color used to identify different players and will thus change for every player in a given game)
Black
Grey
White Glow(Weapon/Tool ports and Optic)

So the only things you could adjust would be the Black/Grey/White, and those only cover what, at most30% of the model?

For two, the whole point of going with this style(aside from the economics) is the readability aspect of it. Readability isn't as big of a concern in games like DoW because not only is it like playing a game of baseball with binoculars strapped to your face, there are also so few units to keep track of.

In PA not only will have Strategic Zoom***, which allows you to view the entire battlefield or any portion of it an any zoom level, you'll also have the hundreds(potentially thousands) of units,you'll need to be able to easily recognize all of them so you can make the appropriate decisions.


***Actually I don't think this has been spcifically confirmed yet, thought I'm assuming it's a given as they talked about being "zoomed in" in the KS Video.

Mike

Choosing a primary (light) and secondary (dark) color and a glow color would be enough in my eyes.

Maybe add a weapon plasma/laser color.

You'd be all set!

+1

That'd actually be a nice feature to have. A fringe feature however, too.

except for the part where the team color would clash with your color-scheme and make it fugly XD. Also, certain coloring may be camouflaging as an effect, which should not be allowed IMO.

also, in a seperate thread I guess?

So since this is a pretty big topic, I created a new thread to discuss it in detail:

http://forums.uberent.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=34569

Hope that's ok.

Sprint RTS has a rather excellent feature where if you build a building in the same location as the wreckage from that same type of building, it will take less time, metal, and energy. It makes sense, and it's very helpful for rebuilding after an attack.

That was in Supreme Commander as well.

Mike

That may actually be where I'm remembering it from, then. I can never remember which features are in which. Another nice feature to do with wreckage which I don't think is in SupCom is resurrection units. They can spend energy and metal to resurrect destroyed units and structures from wreckage, as long as the wreckage wasn't too badly damaged.
Oh, and nano-turrets, for assisting in building/repairing/reclaiming!

Add this viewtopic.php?f=61&t=34507 here so we can track it

Added stretch goals etc from the latest kickstarter update.

Any chance you could change the yellow, its near impossible to read.

Underwater bases. I think this was in supreme commander 2, where land bases were not the only way to get ahead [there was also some of this in 3rd party ta units and official like the seaplane factory].

Will you still be able to give units to people outside your alliances like you could in TA?

Confirmed matchmaking, added underwater bases suggestion, and changed yellow colour.

Thanks much easier to read now.

Hi folks,

what about vetran units (10 kills = vetaran unit) ? Didn't saw anybody mention them before. I would like to have vetarans back as in TA, where they had better aim and higher damage. Would be cool if they would get an optical upgrade from a normal unit as well, but that just would be a sweet extra

Unit Veterancy discussion;
viewtopic.php?f=61&t=34631

Mike