Nighthawk
23.07.2010, 22:41:58
I suppose it's about time I started commenting on a bunch of these topics.
For fight one:
The prefix/suffix system doesn't sound like all that much of an improvement to me. Especially given that with the current new sides/countries logic, filenames aren't limited in the same way that they were with the RockPatch - the current tags basically let you use any file name, thereby rendering such a system where you have to use prefixes and suffixes instead a step backward... unless I've misread the request.
Researches sounds like a brilliant idea, from what I can tell. From what I can tell, it would work an upgrade that you don't physically build, but it can act as a prerequisite (negative or normal). It would open up a lot of options to modders in terms of army expansion. Imagine something like an armoury upgrade that would enable you to build improved versions of all your units. At the same time, you could use negative prerequisites to make it cancel out the original units from the build menu, thereby making it look like a real upgrade. Personally, I've been using a combination of BuildingTypes and negative prerequisites to achieve the same effect so far, but it tends to clutter your base a bit if you have all these pointless structures dotted about.
Thus, my stance would be support #609, kill #343.
For fight two:
The different images request sounds a lot like something that I think came up in a DFD not that long ago. As Beowulf says though, the same effect could be accomplished through toying with Prerequisites. Only issue I could forsee with that is the AI's handling of it all. While different country-specific images for structures does sound like a good idea, since the same effect can be done superficially with Prerequisites and a bunch of coding, all it's really doing is saving the modder time. The only case I can see for #911 is that it would solve any AI-related side effects of such a complex AlternatePrerequisite/NegativePrerequisite system, since each structure would still have the same ID at heart.
Leech weapons. Now, these sound interesting. There are probably many uses modders could come up with for these, most of which I could see being used with Yuri, TCs or a new side altogether (one example could be a Floating Disc that *really* leeches from its target building). I don't have any major arguments for this one, the request is pretty straightforward, there's no convoluted logic involved, I could see more modders taking the time to use this than creating country specific images for everything and anything, and I simply like the idea.
Therefore, here I would say I support #707, kill #911.
For fight one:
The prefix/suffix system doesn't sound like all that much of an improvement to me. Especially given that with the current new sides/countries logic, filenames aren't limited in the same way that they were with the RockPatch - the current tags basically let you use any file name, thereby rendering such a system where you have to use prefixes and suffixes instead a step backward... unless I've misread the request.
Researches sounds like a brilliant idea, from what I can tell. From what I can tell, it would work an upgrade that you don't physically build, but it can act as a prerequisite (negative or normal). It would open up a lot of options to modders in terms of army expansion. Imagine something like an armoury upgrade that would enable you to build improved versions of all your units. At the same time, you could use negative prerequisites to make it cancel out the original units from the build menu, thereby making it look like a real upgrade. Personally, I've been using a combination of BuildingTypes and negative prerequisites to achieve the same effect so far, but it tends to clutter your base a bit if you have all these pointless structures dotted about.
Thus, my stance would be support #609, kill #343.
For fight two:
The different images request sounds a lot like something that I think came up in a DFD not that long ago. As Beowulf says though, the same effect could be accomplished through toying with Prerequisites. Only issue I could forsee with that is the AI's handling of it all. While different country-specific images for structures does sound like a good idea, since the same effect can be done superficially with Prerequisites and a bunch of coding, all it's really doing is saving the modder time. The only case I can see for #911 is that it would solve any AI-related side effects of such a complex AlternatePrerequisite/NegativePrerequisite system, since each structure would still have the same ID at heart.
Leech weapons. Now, these sound interesting. There are probably many uses modders could come up with for these, most of which I could see being used with Yuri, TCs or a new side altogether (one example could be a Floating Disc that *really* leeches from its target building). I don't have any major arguments for this one, the request is pretty straightforward, there's no convoluted logic involved, I could see more modders taking the time to use this than creating country specific images for everything and anything, and I simply like the idea.
Therefore, here I would say I support #707, kill #911.
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