jaggeh
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Reged: 07/03/02
Posts: 549
Loc: ireland dublin
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Vehicle Design console
#127153 - 03/10/06 05:29 PM (82.22.236.58)
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Very simple idea that will stimulate the vehicle market and add something interesting
using the theory behind the tower design console
you can only make a vehicle design on a chassis if you have researched its progenitor (SCP-A1, STR-00 etc)
you can then add whatever technology you have researched once it fits in the chassis.
no funky double ranged weapons etc, just standard tech that you can make.
once you have a valid design it then gives you the research cost. that must be completed before you can manufacture it.
the units will then have a very unique swing (like in different units from different nations in btech)
they could use a prefix set by you (using the pheonix legion as an example)
STR-TPL-00/01/02/03 etc etc
DEM-TPL-01
and so on and so forth
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mattbuck
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Reged: 02/13/04
Posts: 3285
Loc: Nottingham, UK
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Re: Vehicle Design console
[Re: jaggeh]
#127154 - 03/10/06 06:07 PM (80.1.72.245)
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THIS is the sort of thing I would find cool. Personalised armies.
I'd want some way to sell the design somehow... I dunno, maybe make it so that there are a number of variants, but identical ones can't be created, and if people want to research them, they need to pay the original creator $1mil/rp. Obviously you'd need to cap the number of designs someone could create per week....
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Celt
Sergeant
Reged: 12/14/03
Posts: 199
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Re: Vehicle Design console
[Re: mattbuck]
#127157 - 03/10/06 06:13 PM (86.2.153.77)
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"they need to pay the original creator $1mil/rp."
So you get the top empires making even more money?
Whoever researches a design first gets the designation(STR-TPL for example), others can research the same design but it remains STR-TPL.
As a bonus, make the first empire to research a design the only one who can make the unit's description.
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mattbuck
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Reged: 02/13/04
Posts: 3285
Loc: Nottingham, UK
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Re: Vehicle Design console
[Re: Celt]
#127159 - 03/10/06 06:24 PM (80.1.72.245)
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I was hoping to avoid huge numbers of new units cluttering up the research list.
Betting someone creates the STR-WIE-2
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Toontje
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Reged: 01/18/04
Posts: 2578
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Re: Vehicle Design console
[Re: mattbuck]
#127161 - 03/10/06 06:39 PM (84.24.165.226)
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Have something like adapting an existing unit, and using a repair bay + parts, as well as research required (in effect traditional customisation).
Within limits of cause, no more than say 5 thing differences from th eoriginal (every ton of armour equals 1 thing, every weapon removed 1 thing, added 1 thing, ammo 1/2 thing.)
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Thunderlyon
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Reged: 06/27/04
Posts: 196
Loc: Weiser, ID
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Re: Vehicle Design console
[Re: Toontje]
#127165 - 03/10/06 09:36 PM (198.60.241.254)
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I have to say no. we have enough new "research" to waste our time on. THink of all new pre-reqs that could be added by admin. New designs is fine. But with all attempts to wipe out infra and armies going on with FDOWs and the like it would only slow everyone done even futhur.
Good idea if things were like they were a RL year ago. Even with pirates. But now. No.
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Markon
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Reged: 02/19/04
Posts: 578
Loc: Australia
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Re: Vehicle Design console
[Re: Thunderlyon]
#127274 - 03/13/06 04:23 PM (60.229.228.114)
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I like this idea, it would add a lot of interest to those of us who still produce gear.
And for those of us who research a new design, why shouldn't we get the benefit.
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mattbuck
Eeyore
Reged: 02/13/04
Posts: 3285
Loc: Nottingham, UK
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Re: Vehicle Design console
[Re: Markon]
#127276 - 03/13/06 04:50 PM (128.243.220.22)
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Well, what I'm suggesting is that you pay a fee per "non-standard" design you want to research, and then that design will be added to the research list. You're right, it probably shouldn't go to the original creator, just to the ether or something.
Have designs that aren't produced much by the creator empire have an option to be renamed by whoever produces them most.
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