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[R3ven]

Well, I've been working on 3 player powers recently(1 per faction) and once I get them working as I want them, I'll take a few videos of them.

But I also want some more idea for new player powers. These will be unlocked in a similar fashion as Tiberium Wars and Kane's Wrath powers. But you will only get them from a few buildings. These are Airfields, Tech 2 structures, and Research Facilities. You will get 1 or two per building.

The three powers that I am currently working on are simple. The Allies have a bombing run, Soviets are getting a Vehicle Drop, and the Empire is getting an Offshore Bombardment power.

I'm doing them one at a time right now, but have a basis with which to start the code. The names should be pretty sufficient at describing what they do and are for.

But on to the main point, as I stated before, I'm in need of ideas. Throw whatever you have at me, I'm sure I could put anything to use with my map scripting ability(if only I could map as well as I script maps).

Any ideas are appreciated.

[Slightly Wonky Robob]

I'm guessing this is for RA3?

*moved to RA3 section

[CJ]

What about a special overload system for the Soviets : All the units in a selected area lose a lot of armor and gain more firepower for a limited time.
Also, a defense spawner for the Empire, since they're using nanocores to build their defenses, maybe they could just paradrop a defense nanocore in a specified area
As for Allies, I'd see a power similar to the leaftlet drop, but that would just slow down the production speed of affected buildings, and weaken the enemies in the zone for some time...

That's all I can think of atm.

[n5p29]

paradrop for allies deployed from airfield? I miss them since RA2.

[R3ven]

Thanks I guess for the move Bob


I'm liking that Overload idea a lot and a paradrop is very possible.


Thanks for these suggstions. I'm sure I could make use of them on some map(spawner objects own!)

[CJ]

Glad I could be of a help here

BTW, I was wondering, is there a possibility of creating a tunnel-network or Scrin portal system in RA3? That could be a useful power for the allies, a bit like the Chronosphere, but instead of teleporting the units in a given zone, it could stay as long as it's not destroyed, and can be used by any player.

[R3ven]

Yeah, as long as EA didn't break that code like they did squad code. RA3 and TW share a lot of code. Except EA somehow fudged up the RA3 engine with some TW code. Especially squads, which really made me mad that I couldn't use them without that bad work-around I made a few months ago.

[CJ]

Squad system is useless IMO, I prefer being able to garrison vehicles and buildings with my own combinations of units than with a single type D:

[R3ven]

Yeah, I suppose. I just thought it worked really well in Tiberium Wars