Teleporters

Everything you describe is what I worry about. From what I've seen of moons/asteroids so far I doubt space is as much of a problem as you make it out to be.

It's like I said before, I'd much rather see a system where trying to do that is expensive and instead you need to actually think about what units you build where and how many you build.

Mike

Well in the end it comes down how people will utilize the mechanics the developers implement. At this point our discussion is majorly opinionated.

Ok, so first up... brilliant, looks amazing and while i also love the comparison to the operation of a stargate it doesn't seem like it is similar, besides the looks of the device. A Stargate is not tied to one other gate and you can only travel one way through an open wormhole. So are you saying it's bi-directional and only tied to another gate while it's turned on? Can you dial enemy built gates?

Has Uber mentioned if Intra-Planetary teleportation will be possible? I would imagine that Teleporters could also be useful to transport large numbers of forces around on the same large planet as well....maybe between two teammates who are very far from each other. I could see this being viable, especially as planets get larger in scale. This ability would encourage team members to spawn in different areas, rather than in the same spawn point, as is common now for its defensive benefits.

I'd like for it to work that way look here.

I like these teleporters, but I still think there is room and a need for another teleporter type unit. A orbital transport that uses beam me up technology to store multiple unit's in it's teleporto buffer until it can deploy them onto the same planet / another planet. Expensive to build, easy to kill, drains a lot of energy to power it's beam.

If you have a problem with stargates, just kill the stargate. That was hard. Eventually players will realize they can't lean on a single gate to solve all their problems.

It is not possible to restrict where a player can build the stargate nor which direction units can move. At least, the latter requires a second type of gate.

That's not a teleporter like... at all. That's a plain vanilla transport ship.

PA will need an interplanetary bulk transport. There's not much way to avoid it.

What I think would be an interesting take on teleporters is if there were some variables.

The standard teleporter that Neutrino described in the first post. +

Core Gate. Capable of linking to multiple receiver nodes. This would of course be very expensive, and it would blow up like a nuke if destroyed (so don't build too near one)

Mobile Gate. This would be a large, slow unit that could only be build in orbit. It would be defenseless, but could land planet side and deploy. Makes getting a beachhead a more potential thing. Would also be capable of deploying in orbit in order to get orbital units between planets quickly. Deployment would not be a quick think (30 seconds?)

Indictor This would be a large slow orbital unit that would be capable of blocking about half a planet from teleporter use by enemies. It might have minor defensive weapons (say as much as a space fighter, but be much more expensive) While active, the Indictor would use a LOT of energy. They could cancel each other out as well.

I like the idea of orbital being a source of strategic movement, be it transport or teleporter based.

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Clearly I'm cut out to be a game designer.

Nice one.

Looks freaking amazing. i hope it will come with an equally impressive sound, like the stargate when it comes on. that VUSH svush sound.

Yeah, perhaps energy consumption should be related to the distance between the two gates.

So you could use it to go to an other planet, and it will cost way more energy. Or to an other system, and it will cost you a fortune

can we have a commander named Jack O'neill?

Ofcourse

If he looks more like kurt russel than mcguyver yes

Stargates did have such a limit in sg1. But it really only started to matter for intergalactic stuff....

It might be a good idea to encourage island hopping gameplay

But..but...


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wrong game

Orbital Gate?

could Gates be used as weapons?

ie. SG-1 S4E22 "Exodus"