[Shadowstar]

In my ongoing development of Starscape, I've included a much more detailed level of ground combat.

I've got 3 types of infantry: small, medium, and large, they don't require any kind of "bridge" and are very cheap. The research is also cheap, you research "Infantry" (there is no more "Troop" research field)

The other type of ground unit you can develop is Ground Vehicles, researchable as "Mechanized/Mechanical Combat". This field costs more to research and the units are more expensive (as well as much bigger), but have alot of advantages over infantry.

There are 4 types of ground vehicles: small, medium, large, and assault (real big). Most of these vehicles can mount some of the larger "small" weapons that normally appear on ships, whereas infantry can't. Additionally, I've added vehicle mounts that only the ground vehicles can use, ranging from small vehicle (which is larger than the "normal" mount - intended for infantry), medium vehicle, and large vehicle (real big).

Although ground combat isn't as detailed in the game as Space Combat, I figure that's no reason I can't make it more interesting... Obviously, vehicles are better to use than Infantry, but are more costly and require control centers. I also created a sort of aux. bridge for the vehicles. If the pilot is killed, a computer system can kick in and pilot the vehicle to safety. You have to research computers as well as mech combat to get it. Dunno if it will actually be of any use though.

Anyway, if Derek wanted to include something like this in his next update, it would be cool for me to see how these ideas would actually work, as Starscape is still a long way from completion. I've got a bunch of new ship types and I want to make new shipsets for the existing Starscape races. Right now, I'm just trying to put together a generic race set. I've also still got to work on AI and get it fixed up to work with the new features.

I'm thinking of borrowing (with permission) components from Derek's mod too. They would work well in Starscape with some of the new ideas I'm experimenting with.

So, how bout it? Can I borrow them?