posted on May 14th, 2003, 4:05 am
i think anything would be cool that had a bit more of a choice, whats the use of having credits (besides making sure they can't build more than 1 transwarp hub, 3 klingon battle plan stations etc.) if you have no real choice about what to spend them on, the feds can choose from different types of ships, the klingons/borg can only choose to make 1 type of station, maybe you could add a few super research pods to the klingon stations that let you choose from several different good techs (of course make sure that you can't get all of them, to make the choice actually change how you play) you could do the same sorta thing with the borg, and if you wanted variety instead of making them choose a special tech, you could have them choose either the transwaprs hub (very powerful weapon, especially on large maps) and some types of slightly more powerful upgraded regular ships (like a the large type of sphere from endgame that the player could then use instead of regular spheres if he wanted to, or maybe some kind of super weapon that takes along time to build) that way each side has varietions in how they use there points, but still have cool options too (the feds can choose tough support ships, klingons enhacnment weapons and special techs, and borg transwarp hub or enhanced regular ships) this system is similar to what is used on C&C generals, it keeps you on your toes, always wondering what tech the enemey desided to spend his points on, is he going to use paradrops to capture you buildings? or is he going to use a10's to knock out your defenses
it makes the game harder to predict and makes it so your always seeing new strategies people use by getting and mixing certain techs and saying "thats neat never thought of that"
just some ideas
i still have not evene figured out what the borg spend there credits on.