and it's not from starcraft, it's from Total Aihilation. The Arm has a VTOL (a machine gunner aircraft) and Core has the Rapier (a rocket launcher aircraft)
Which reminds me, how bout bringing the joys of aircraft to the outpost world? and i mean rotor planes, not jets.
I'm not taking VTOLS from any game. Does that mean that tanks are really from Dune 2? No, they're from real life and other things, from possible creations.
With the technology of interstellar spacecraft, cool nuclear fusion power plants providing near limitless energy. I doubt propellor aircraft would have a place.
VTOLs using a variation of jet propulsion using MHD thrust would be a logical choice for the outpost universe but if people keep complaining then I wont include them.
But I would still have a transporter.
But for the moment I have to work on the vehicle and structure graphics. Those are taking up all my time. Then I can get onto coding everyone's suggestions.
just saying propeller planes would be a good choice because of this: planes on earth are common, but nasa is still struggling to get a rotor plane on mars. why is that? first off, atmospheric pressure. Then there's the air density. and finally, there's oxygen. All combustion engine motors need oxygen to function, and jet's need even more! Having an "eletrical" type of engine to run a tank is easy (god gravity is no issue here!), but having a plane running on electrical plants would only be viable in rotor vehicles (since jets require a considerable ammount of oxygen). As for jet's not requiring oxygen, well, this is sci-fi after all and a tech for that can be made up, or well pondered
That's my point. Rotor planes at beginning felling more like a "beta test" of aerial weapons platforms. They'r "slow" (same speed as a lynx, maybe a just little faster), need and airstripe, and lack armor. but they're cheap.
Then jets. Fast as hell, need an airstripe, have a considerable ammount of armor (less than a panther, more than a lynx) but they are somewhat expensive.
Then are VTOL's. Transport tech becomes available since now they can land/take off vertical without any need for airstripes. An aditional plane would be available. They would be faster than rotors, but slower than the jet. since they are VTOL's no airstripe needed and they would have a significant ammount of armor. But they are somewhat expensive.
I think VTOl's should be defenetly in the game, but i think a small "beta test" performed by the colonies before VTOL's would be viable, also for an alternative of building an xpensive as hell plane instead of a cheap one.
