Idea for SEV

Ragnarok · #1 January 13th, 2003, 10:08 PM

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Originally posted by Captain Kwok:
I like the idea of training a military from the population.

One fact about SE:IV, is that "troops" are not supposed to represent people, but actually vehicles like tanks, etc.

True... I forgot about that. But still it takes people to run them right? Some could be ran on auto but mostly it would take someone to control the unit.

Maybe for every 1000 (or whatever number) of population you train that will represent 1 infantry group. (Or troop)

Fyron · #2 January 13th, 2003, 10:13 PM

You already get infantry, in the form of Militia that defend the planet when attacked. Of course, you can't design them, but so what? Troop combat is insanely simple, and uses only hit points, damage, and I think to hit chances.

mlmbd · #3 January 14th, 2003, 05:52 PM

fyron, but militia are untrained/undisciplined infantry. There should be away to make those militia trainable. If not then make them in addition to the militia added by the game. Like a pre-Infantry. At least one would think!

mlmbd

Dobian · #4 January 14th, 2003, 07:06 PM

How about have a population support only a limited number of troops. If you want more, you have to start a draft. This could result in consequences such as protests and rioting by the population. I can just picture a message window with a picture of some aliens carrying peace signs...."Stop the war in AlphaIraq IV"!!

Ragnarok · #5 January 14th, 2003, 08:06 PM

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Originally posted by Dobian:
How about have a population support only a limited number of troops. If you want more, you have to start a draft. This could result in consequences such as protests and rioting by the population. I can just picture a message window with a picture of some aliens carrying peace signs...."Stop the war in AlphaIraq IV"!!

Those are some good ideas.

Fyron, sure ground combat is insanly simple as it is. That's why I think it should be updated a little bit.