What if you need to make a building in order for the units to upgrade their individual upgrades?
So, for example, it would be like when you build the barracks, you can build the unit, then upgrade it so it can use the upgrade on itself. So, when you build the unit before the upgrade, it is basic. Then, you can upgrade the ability to upgrade the units individually. It could fit with the buildings for each tier.
These were just other suggestions that i had. They were idead that just one day popped into my head while reading this. If you won't use them, it's totally fine. I was just thinking of other units to use. Sorry if it was a waste of time, I just wanted to help anyway I could. By the way, the ideas are lookin good :)
I have 3 types of units that I would love to share about. Can it be done? I don't know. But i have 3 combat units that I thought about while watching starwars like 3 years ago while playing starcraft. (starcraft 1 of course) So, here's what i rlly want to try:
The Droid: It won't be like the one's in starwars (I don't like to copy work) but it has the same concept. So these units will be the beginning. They are extremly low costing, weak units that are good vs. light units. They would basically be marines, but robots. They would have the gun, and all that. I'll give you the stats so you could get what I think of these units. So they would be light and mechanical. Life: 25 armor: 2 (I think of all robots having more armor cuase they're armor, they're litterally made of steel!) Anyways, damage: 4 (6 to light units) attack speed : 0.4 or 0.5 range: 5 Movement speed: 2.85 Space: very little amount of space. They cost 25 minerals. You get the idea right? So they start off weak. I would think you should be able to upgrade them alot, just so if players decide to mass them, but they don't get attacked, they can still be good. They can be upgraded to elite droids.
Elite droids: Also inspired from starwars. They are upgraded versions of the normal droid. These droids fire from 2 wrist guns(They hold out their wrist and fire, just to make it look really kool :D.) I would say make them cost gas so they aren't upgraded immediatly. Also, i think it would be neat to when you actually upgrade the droids to elite droids, that it doesn't change the droids who are normal droids. For example, If you upgrade your marines weapon to 1, the damage increases on the marines who alrdy been built. When realistically, that wouldn't happen. So the droids would be normal droids, and then when the upgrade completes, you start to build elites. Actually, maybe you can morph the droid into an elite droid when they're in a power field. (They would go into a steel ball and take maybe 10 seconds to morph. Wow, I type alot.) So the upgrade would cost maybe like 150 minerals, 100 gas. So, the stats that would change: Life: 40 damage: 5 (8 to light units) (Two attacks.) movement speed: 3. Everything else would be the same.
The spider: The spider I think would be awesome to have. So the spider is a robot That has four long, robotic legs, and it moves on all four. This unit one of the robots basic units. It has a body and head like an insect, and it has a melee attack with decent damage, and medium attack speed. I imagined, since it's big and it knows the terran well (Becuase it seems most if not all the stories I've read involve the terran screwing up) that the spider could be upgraded to climb over buildings, allowing it to attack bunkers, and units behind blocked cliffs. It can't climb cliffs, just climb over buildings blocking the cliff enterance.
So the spider would be armored, and mechanical. It would have 150-200 life, 2 armor, damage: 20 attack speed: 1.5 movement speed: 2.25, but can be upgraded to 2.65, just becuase it's slow, and it would cost 150 minerals, 75 or 100 gas.
The avenger (I couldn't think of a name) : Also inspired by starwars, The avenger is some-what like the robot version of a tank. This robot would have a big, spherical base, and walk on short, robotic legs. These units would be slow, but have good range and excelent damage and decent attack speed. Their weapon would be on the top of the spherical base, which gives them good the good range, and also good sight radius as a small bonus. They would be armored, and mechanical, and have 250-300 life, 3 armor, damage: 20 attack speed: 1.25 range: 7 movement speed: 1.85 takes up a fairly large amount of space. They would cost 250 minerals, 150 gas. They could be upgraded to have + 2 range and +2 sight radius for 200 minerals, 150 gas.
Now i know this is alot, but I would love to have this taken into consideration. I hope there are some good 3D modelers out there :) I think the droids would be T1, and you could upgrade them to elite droids, and upgrade their attack speed, and damage to armored +2 (They are all seperate upgrades) in T2. The spider and avenger would be T2. The avenger could be T3, but that would depend on how balanced it is. Anyways, I was really wanting to get this idea off my chest and into the open, so if you read it, comment, suggest, ask questions. PM me too. I just really want to help. If you have anything that I could do (Maybe to learn or get advice cuase I havent even finished my first map yet) Please PM me or let me know somehow. Thanks for everything, and if you ant more ideas for units, balancing, or anything at all, PLEASE! contact me. It seems I always have free time and I would really love to help. Thanks!
What if you need to make a building in order for the units to upgrade their individual upgrades?
So, for example, it would be like when you build the barracks, you can build the unit, then upgrade it so it can use the upgrade on itself. So, when you build the unit before the upgrade, it is basic. Then, you can upgrade the ability to upgrade the units individually. It could fit with the buildings for each tier.
That is pretty much using the terran method then, but I guess it fits well with what we're trying to do.
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These were just other suggestions that i had. They were idead that just one day popped into my head while reading this. If you won't use them, it's totally fine. I was just thinking of other units to use. Sorry if it was a waste of time, I just wanted to help anyway I could. By the way, the ideas are lookin good :)
I have 3 types of units that I would love to share about. Can it be done? I don't know. But i have 3 combat units that I thought about while watching starwars like 3 years ago while playing starcraft. (starcraft 1 of course) So, here's what i rlly want to try:
The Droid: It won't be like the one's in starwars (I don't like to copy work) but it has the same concept. So these units will be the beginning. They are extremly low costing, weak units that are good vs. light units. They would basically be marines, but robots. They would have the gun, and all that. I'll give you the stats so you could get what I think of these units. So they would be light and mechanical. Life: 25 armor: 2 (I think of all robots having more armor cuase they're armor, they're litterally made of steel!) Anyways, damage: 4 (6 to light units) attack speed : 0.4 or 0.5 range: 5 Movement speed: 2.85 Space: very little amount of space. They cost 25 minerals. You get the idea right? So they start off weak. I would think you should be able to upgrade them alot, just so if players decide to mass them, but they don't get attacked, they can still be good. They can be upgraded to elite droids.
Elite droids: Also inspired from starwars. They are upgraded versions of the normal droid. These droids fire from 2 wrist guns(They hold out their wrist and fire, just to make it look really kool :D.) I would say make them cost gas so they aren't upgraded immediatly. Also, i think it would be neat to when you actually upgrade the droids to elite droids, that it doesn't change the droids who are normal droids. For example, If you upgrade your marines weapon to 1, the damage increases on the marines who alrdy been built. When realistically, that wouldn't happen. So the droids would be normal droids, and then when the upgrade completes, you start to build elites. Actually, maybe you can morph the droid into an elite droid when they're in a power field. (They would go into a steel ball and take maybe 10 seconds to morph. Wow, I type alot.) So the upgrade would cost maybe like 150 minerals, 100 gas. So, the stats that would change: Life: 40 damage: 5 (8 to light units) (Two attacks.) movement speed: 3. Everything else would be the same.
The spider: The spider I think would be awesome to have. So the spider is a robot That has four long, robotic legs, and it moves on all four. This unit one of the robots basic units. It has a body and head like an insect, and it has a melee attack with decent damage, and medium attack speed. I imagined, since it's big and it knows the terran well (Becuase it seems most if not all the stories I've read involve the terran screwing up) that the spider could be upgraded to climb over buildings, allowing it to attack bunkers, and units behind blocked cliffs. It can't climb cliffs, just climb over buildings blocking the cliff enterance. So the spider would be armored, and mechanical. It would have 150-200 life, 2 armor, damage: 20 attack speed: 1.5 movement speed: 2.25, but can be upgraded to 2.65, just becuase it's slow, and it would cost 150 minerals, 75 or 100 gas.
The avenger (I couldn't think of a name) : Also inspired by starwars, The avenger is some-what like the robot version of a tank. This robot would have a big, spherical base, and walk on short, robotic legs. These units would be slow, but have good range and excelent damage and decent attack speed. Their weapon would be on the top of the spherical base, which gives them good the good range, and also good sight radius as a small bonus. They would be armored, and mechanical, and have 250-300 life, 3 armor, damage: 20 attack speed: 1.25 range: 7 movement speed: 1.85 takes up a fairly large amount of space. They would cost 250 minerals, 150 gas. They could be upgraded to have + 2 range and +2 sight radius for 200 minerals, 150 gas.
Now i know this is alot, but I would love to have this taken into consideration. I hope there are some good 3D modelers out there :) I think the droids would be T1, and you could upgrade them to elite droids, and upgrade their attack speed, and damage to armored +2 (They are all seperate upgrades) in T2. The spider and avenger would be T2. The avenger could be T3, but that would depend on how balanced it is. Anyways, I was really wanting to get this idea off my chest and into the open, so if you read it, comment, suggest, ask questions. PM me too. I just really want to help. If you have anything that I could do (Maybe to learn or get advice cuase I havent even finished my first map yet) Please PM me or let me know somehow. Thanks for everything, and if you ant more ideas for units, balancing, or anything at all, PLEASE! contact me. It seems I always have free time and I would really love to help. Thanks!
P.S. sorry that I type so much ;)