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Projects & Development => GORF => Hall of Fame => Topic started by: Tramis on July 10, 2006, 03:25:42 PM

Title: Underground Building
Post by: Tramis on July 10, 2006, 03:25:42 PM

You could be able to dig tunnels and build stuff underground, like in OP1, like use the Earthworker as a Robodigger and make underground tunnels.  These would be invisible to the enemy base unless they have units there (meaning you can build secret armies and they don't know what you're building until they surface) and certain buildings would raise or lower Morale depending where they're located - for example, residential units would raise morale if underground because the colonists are safer, but smelters would lower morale because of the pollution it causes in the confined area.  Also, you can put mines underground to increase their productivity.

Title: Underground Building
Post by: omagaalpha on July 10, 2006, 09:25:33 PM

Actual believe or not been discussied before and believe answer was NO.

Edit: think it is still no but when I did a seach for it did not turn up anything(try "underground" and "outpost", "outpost 1")

Title: Underground Building
Post by: Stormy on July 10, 2006, 10:40:58 PM

I don't really care for this idea.... it makes the game more complex imo... hmmm
 

Title: Underground Building
Post by: CK9 on July 10, 2006, 11:21:51 PM

plus you have to factor in the extra coding time for the new layers and the added debugging needed for them to be flawlessly compatible.

Title: Underground Building
Post by: Tramis on July 11, 2006, 06:17:24 AM

oh ok i didnt see where it was suggested already.

Title: Underground Building
Post by: Leviathan on July 21, 2006, 04:05:29 AM

ive allways liked this idea from op1 and everything. the idea of hidden armys and factorys is cool etc.

but i dont think the people would bother to excavate the land and build underground. they can just build on land. if u think about it in real life u cant realy see the other persons armys unless u go over to their base and see them so they wouldnt think to hide them underground so there not seen.

Title: Underground Building
Post by: Freeza-CII on July 21, 2006, 04:10:15 AM

Well if a Edward Sat can tell where a 3 bar mine is i think it would see a underground colony.  I dont think that idea works very well unless your going to put bunker busters into the game but then that makes all buildings useless because a bunker buster could take them all out.

Title: Underground Building
Post by: dm-horus on July 21, 2006, 06:02:36 AM

all the units and structures would have to be redesigned for use underground, beside the fact that the ability to build underground would be really strange and unnecessary. any sort of quake would also have to affect underground buildings exceptionally more than regular. building underground is alot more complex than just "dozing downward." in real life, you dont just push dirt out from in front of you, it has to be removed and takes a long time. to excavate an area large enough for an adv lab would take more than a year with a single mining unit, which would also have to be redesigned to explain how its moving all the dirt out. its alot more complex than just building a tube or tunnel.