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c...@terminus.com (Paul) wrote:

>On Mon, 08 Apr 1996 19:01:51 GMT, a...@prism.netkonect.co.uk (The
>Prism) wrote:

>>26.	The ground 'dissapears' after a little while. Like in Warcraft
>>2, basically. You have to 're-discover' land to see units cross it.
>>This is MUCH more like reality.

>In reality most people make maps and remember terrain. Who the heck
>thought of that one? That would be EXTREMELY annoying!

Ok.  Here are my suggestions.  Hope they aren't a bit longwinded.

1)  Paratroops.  I love chinooks, but they take too long to land and
take off.  How about the ability to train all your troops to land as
paratroops.  They could take a second or two to hit the ground, and
would be succeptable to gunners, but not SAM's and bazookas.  (Can you
imagine a SAM trying to hit a paratrooper?)  This would require that
you keep some minigunners or the like around your buildings.  Even if
you wanted to make it a lightly armed, but cheaper unit, that would be
cool too.  But I would love these guys as engineers!!!  Or, if they
were cheap enough, I'd drop a group behind a force that was trying to
retreat to finish them off.  There would have to be some kind of an
effective base defense for this, though.  Perhaps AA guns.  They would
tear through a paratroop group.

2)  Not my idea, but to have some kind of an entrenchment value, or
the ability to dig foxholes.  Maybe some kind of specialized troop to
build these fortifications would be better.  I get so tired of having
to stick a relatively undefended tank on a bridge to stop advancing
troops.

3)  relating to the 2nd idea, how about these tanks move back into
place if a harvester crosses the bridge.  I will often just place a
tank on a bridge, and assume that if I dont' hear any fire, that
entrance is sealed.  Then my harvester goes through, and next thing I
know, here comes a humvee to scout my base.  It really pisses me off!

4)  I must comment on the Fog of War.  I think it would suck to have a
land mass just dissapear.  But I do think that it's rather silly for
me to be able to see you massing troops in your base just because I
once traveled there.  I think the solution is to not black out an area
after you haven't traveled there, but to dim it or make it off-color
and in this area, you can't see troops coming, but you can see the
terrain.  This would make sentries neccessary.  It would also allow
you to get the coordinates, say of that pesky oblisk to ION, or
whatever, but you wouldn't be able to see new buildings or troop
mobilizations.  I'm much in favor of this.  And I can't see how it can
hurt gameplay a bit.  Just alter strategies a little.


>Paul - C...@TERMINUS.COM

>"The inherent problem with this technology is that a single
> pair of eyes focuses on a single screen, and by some electronic
> extension, you are connected to somebody else--but it's in the
> abstract. The danger is that we become enamored with the 
> abstract and forget that life is really touchy-feely."
> -- William Shatner
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