100 Custom Commanders

Once we get 40 player games might be fun to have some group pictures.

Lol it's all well and good for those who want to play online, but me i rarely if never play online gaming, only LAN..
I only play PA online during development because i'm forced too, i think in the 6 or so months i have owned the game i have played maybe 8 AI games and loaded the game long enough to test maybe 10-15 bugs or do screenshots for mod ideas and my Framrate thread..

So i honestly have no care for having 300mb of wasted assets on my hdd, luckily being a modder and also one who is honest and honorable i will most likely make the "100 mecha mod" that unlocks them all for personal use but i will never share it, (i bet a few modders will do this and keep it to themselves as they all seem to be honorable people who respect uber and each other).

But that being said and as honest as it is, it's entirely up to uber if they wish to release the art assets to everyone, online and offline players alike.

300MB is basically nothing in this day and age. A 2TB HDD is about £60, and at that rate 300MB is around £3.00 in cost. Given how small PA already is (1.5GB!), what does anyone have to complain about, really?

Psssst, your maths is wrong.

I was concerned that it might be. Yep, I think I see what I did now, I overestimated by a factor of about a thousand.

Whichever way you look at it, 300MB costs much less than anybody in a first-world country has any right to care about.

Mine is a 500 Gb SSD, which results in ~1 EUR per 300 Mb. I agree is close to nothing. In fact that's never been the point of this thread, which in fact is about a completely different topic.

Costructive answers have been given already, so if you want to complain for the sake of doing it, I do respect your wish for doing so, but please go open your own thread.

Where in his post did he complain or indicate he wanted to do so? Indeed, his entire point is about why people shouldn't complain.

Me personally care little about the wasted space, i'm more interested in the wasted assets...
If i never play online i'll never see those 100 commanders, maybe they should be usable by the AI too...

Then if i play i might actually get to see a custom commander one-day as i'll never play online..

My point is why have them there unless their in use...
Why not add another 3 useless biomes and planets we cant play on too..
Heck why not add in a ton of content that just sit's there and does nothing im sure it's ok with most people on here...

My mind exploded with the inability to see your point of view. If everything was seen in equal quantities it would be a very dull experience.

i meant why not add them into the game and have them used by the AI,
then for offline players the extra 100 artwork assets serve some purpose instead of just wasting space...

Many hours of work are being put into them it's a shame for me they will just sit there never seen unless i mod them in...

They put the work in for the sole purpose of creating something exclusive to player x in the vanilla game. Private mods can do as they please, but re-using the assets in vanilla is counter to their purpose.

Just imagine mod replacing every single unit type with a commander's skin. Flying commanders, gliding on water commanders, even space commanders! My mind blown.

I want to replace all the scampers/doxen with little Commanders. Not sure how the animations and unit scales would mingle, though.

I understand why they are making them, i was also considering backing enough to purchase one myself.

Maybe those backers could opt in to pick a unique AI name that uses only their custom model then if they so choose,,
Me personally would do something like that so other's could atleast enjoy seeing/playing against my $750+ artwork investment (if i had one)...

Then both online and offline player could still enjoy the artwork assets without having to mod to put them into the game someway...

I don't want to use anyone's commander (the osiris quad's my fave) i just think that if the artworks there why not put it to use in offline/AI play too...
Give the $1000+ backer the choice of naming an AI (if they choose to) that will wear their custom commanders artwork and tada...

At the moment it is a 1 in 5000+ chance i may ever play against a custom commander, if i ever play online after they are released, wouldn't those that own the $750 artwork's want to show their investments off more to the public.. I would

Those sound very valid points, and I feel like encouraging it.

Beside, if different AIs will have different names and personalities, the owner of a Custom Commander could eventually decide how his AI will actually play and behave in game.

A higher tier Steam-card could then be earned after having won against some or all the various AIs. Perhaps earning a custom commander expressly made for the one brave and skilled enough.

Unfortunately I expect that some of the Steam buyers will feel not so positive about all the Custom Commanders operation in itself (for reasons already discussed). This proposed by MaxPowerz seems a good way to make them love instead those aspect of the Kickstarter campaign. Pretty smart if I would say myself.

Let's see what Uber will say about.

Add to that the 2.8MB of disk space per commander being put to good use for everybody, finally, while benefitting both the ones that those commanders are dedicated to and those who would be loath to miss out on them entirely.
Random commander skin option for AIs perhaps? That would surely be something for the singleplayer crowd to cheer for, I would wager.

Here, just found this one somewhere else, and I thought that it may perfectly fit the discussion.

You guys are really worried about hard drive space? We live in an age where storing 1GB is nothing. How much room for porn do you guys really need in the first place?

A lot.

Im going to have a cup of tea, anyone want one? 300mgs can be pretty easy to free up, you could;

• Clear your internet cache and cookies
• uninstall stuff you dont use
• uninstall windows game you never play
• delete junk

So on so on, not that big of a deal.