Transporters

I hope you guys develop a ferry mode on planets and from planet to planet for transport units right from production or from battlefield. Maybe a prototype which repair units while transport.

hey - I am sure there will be an air transport Sup Com style. But relanet to planet, i dont believe there will be "space ships" but the unit cannon could be set as the move destination for a factory, the unit cannon could "point" to a transport beacon on the receiving planet?

In state of war, there were aircraft called "carryalls":

A carryall could carry 4-8 tanks depending on size, and 2 large mechs

The noble carryall goes back much further than that, being in the very first RTS ever, dune 2, as a unit that automatically moved your harvesters around and brought damaged units back from the front. You still built them though. they were also in the book as well.

I thought there would be orbital transports as shown in the trailer?

The only stuff seen in the Visualization was the Commander's "Pod"(or "Egg") and a unit that deploys 2 Air Fabbers from a Moon to Asteroids, not exactly conclusive of anything.

Mike

There was also the asteroid full of units and the big unit cannon. Asteroids make natural transports for moving big cargo across space.

I wouldn't be so sure since the only reliable way to deliver the payload would result in planetary annihilation.

Since when? Pull into orbit, load up the army, and shoot them down to the surface. No destruction required. Hell, the asteroid even serves as a reinforcement platform if you have a few factories on top.

How do you shoot them? Do they just jump?

Hey man, do your homework:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhEYvOYceNs
0:50.

That's a transport of some sort, not an asteroid. The asteroid isn't acting as a transport.

1:22

Tell me how a asteroid covered in infrastructure and potential units flying across the solar system ISN'T a transport.

It is transporting death.

I loved the dune 2 carryalls, you couldn't control them, they only picked up resources harversters and units that were damages below 50%. But they wouldn't fit in this game, i would love to see the kind of SubCom carriers, the UEF gunship which could also carry one units and the big ones.

What exactly is a fabber? I have seen the plane-like aircraft when a unit (apparently called "engineers") lands on an asteroid, is that what you mean?

Fabbers.

Mike

Are you trying to imply that commanders are in fact, not supreme in nature?