Congratulations, we're about to make planetfall...

[Buster's Uncle]

There is always nuclear weapons...

Grammar and spelling are good but it lacks something...and I know what.

There is ALWAYS nuclear weapons!

Isn't it better like that? 
(says the guy who dreams of nuclear weapons when dancing at partys  )

There are ALWAYS nuclear weapons!

[JarlWolf]

And that's what I get for being a Russian native speaker 

[Buster's Uncle]

It's a minor error and your conversational English is pretty solid - better than my Russian, which is about four words and no grammar at all.

[NewAgeOfPower]

Someone on another forum a long time back mentioned a MP scenario where everyone started with planet busters. Object was to recreate a Armageddon/ aftermath scenario played from the start of it.

My issue with that is, that the major powers don't nuke each other because they don't want to die. In SMAC/X, or any 4X, losing the game sucks but isn't as nasty as dying in RL. It wouldn't be an accurate emulation.

[JarlWolf]

All you have to do to fix that, is make the game have a price attached, or a prize worth winning.

[Kilkakon]

Yeah... my skills in Russian are playing Soviet as my main faction in Red Alert 2.

Kirov reporting~

[JarlWolf]

Actually... I have new idea for new GoTM.


Though it may need a fair bit of resources to produce it:

A return to earth GoTM, or Earth based. It'd have to be an entire conversion, but I have an idea on how one could do it: Have it on war torn Earth, it'd require a custom map of the Earth itself, custom factions would have to be made. Techs won't be changed because that's just too much work... its tolerable to have old techs in. The tiles for the fungus would be frozen wasteland or some form of wasteland, and the "native life" would be some form of horrendous mutants: I'd be willing to do the re-textures of such things for both fungus and the native life, and contribute at least a few custom factions.


And, as a catch: We could have two versions: MP version where EVERYONE starts with a Planet Buster, reminiscent of the nuclear hell theme, and the prize would be a special badge+ a crapload of EC, and maybe a poster or something in their honour. The factions would have to, as said, be entirely custom.


And fit with the apocalyptic theme.

Whats your thoughts?

[Kilkakon]

Possible for sure. You'd have to decide when it was set, due to how we are currently pretty entrenched with hundreds of countries. Although in my universe that number slides to 1 very rapidly, haha~

I have to laugh at the idea of having a US faction starting with free nukes and the willingness to use them. Pressure Domes would have to be cheap. XD

Tech trees aren't that hard to make.

[JarlWolf]

If someone has the knowledge/power to do tech tree's, of which I know you do Kilkakon (it's just a matter of commitment, and one cannot ask such a high amount of work from you like that: it's incredibly rude of me to even broach that. It'd have to be your own choice.)

With setting, it'd probably be exact same as on Centauri. As for factions I think the nations of old, or what they used to be, would've collapsed and succumbed to other powers or evolved into something else. We could have it where there is 7 large powers left in the world, fighting on the tortured homeland of Humanity for what little is left, left behind by the Unity. Clinging to existence, the planet plagued by pollution, radiation and mutants and lawlessness, the few large powers left vie for control. And these factions would be of grim mindset, scorned by years of war and a small amounts of nuclear war. Famine, poverty and hatred has shaped the remaining powers of Earthern humanity into hard boiled factions that have extreme ideologies, of which they propagate to impose on the rest of the planet and secure their vision to lead Earth into the future.

Note: This would take a VERY long time to produce... I don't expect it within this year. Probably once 2014 hits.

[Kilkakon]

It's not impossible. Tech trees actually don't take long to do--it's more balancing them afterwards that's the thing.

Then you have to make sure people actually want to play your mod. That's always an important step. XD

And sure, that's certainly a way to go about it. I have seen some factions from a "return to earth" scenario from NN, in which there were a few unions and a few factions from AC. Still, interesting concept.

[Buster's Uncle]

You might want to have a look at that scenario so you can be sure to do something sufficiently different...

[JarlWolf]

Will do. Though this is more of Earth based factions then Centauri ones going back. 

Edit: Is there a link to the GoTM's? I'm having a hard time searching for them.

[Buster's Uncle]

I believe that scenario's bundled up with the Network Node Factions file in Downloads...

[Vishniac]

Is there a link to the GoTM's? I'm having a hard time searching for them.

Same for me.
They should be regrouped on one page with all links and downloads available.
There is a "GotM" link up on this page but it leads nowhere.
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About the scenario, YEAH!
A few ideas:

- the localisation of current cities would be rocky tiles with mineral bonus (crushed concrete buildings with lots of metal to loot)

- the world would be mainly dunes with few nutrients. A Mad Max world! Few nutrients to reflect the nuclear winter fact.

- with mainly dunes, except in equatorial/boreal zones (jungles, taïgas), factions would be pretty obliged to plant forests to survive. But there should be a mechanism akin to the mindworms spawning from fungus but this time would be barbarians with hordes of wild wolves and BEARS ( ) attacking units passing through their territories: passing through a forest tile would have a chance to spawn hostile units. "VARUS, where are my legions?"
Of course, all this added to the radioactive fungus and their mutants! 

- nuclear weapons... I love nuclear weapons, they fascinate me! . Instead of just giving one planet buster to each faction, let's make them earn them! A planet buster would be enclosed in a 'Unity' pod in a mountaineous, desert or hostile region and with lots of static mutants defending their radioactive zone. Let's say Nevada, Ural, Scotland, Alps, Neguev, Gobi, Himalaya! Sort of "The Secret of the Planet of the Apes" plot

[Kirov]

Not asking on a whim. I found a way to trick the game in giving you a mix of units at the beginning without adding them in the faction file, and like stats on what the people here would like to start with.

Mind to share it, mate? If you have any reason to keep it secret (do you?), just PM me so we could spread it among CMNs.