Lithicraft Thread

Yo man has anyone heard of Lithicraft? Its a half-Life 2 Mod that is an Multiplayer FPS/RTS, it is based on Starcraft like features such as 3 races human, bug -like, and Alien advanced.

Here is the design document:
Concept:

Lithicraft is a 3d strategy mod for Half Life 2. It takes the world of Starcraft in a whole new perspective. YOU as the units. You will see the world of Starcraft at the eyes of soldiers on the ground. Although the world, units, and buildings will all be different to avoid getting shutdown by copywrite but will still kept the feel of SC.

Players:

In Lithicraft each player is one unit in the massive war. Players will have the choice to be air units, heavy ground (such as tanks), or just infanty. One person will be the commander which will build structures to keep the base not only defended but allowing friendlys to upgrade what they can be.

Races:

Humans- If you have not already guessed the Humans are the race that has left Earth to find a new life. They have average attack, speed and fire... all depending on what unit it is. Their helpful equipment includes sending an EMP to shutdown anything that uses electricity. They also will have medpacks to keep them in the game longer.

Zixon- This is the alien race that has taken over this mysterious planet. They can only build on this slime and seem to be faster then humans but are drastically weaker. Although their health can regenerate quickly after time.

Nantho- Very little is known about this race but they seem to be some short of advanced or futuristic alien. They can take a good amount of damage but take longer to upgrade and cost more. Except they can build more structures at a time.

Buildings:

The buildings in Lithicraft will play a big role in gameplay. There are 3 types of buildings. Offensive includes turrets of any kind. Defensive includes buildings to upgrade units and abilities. Last but not least weapon and armor upgrades.

Each building will be built by the teams Commander. Each race finishes their buildings in a different way. So look for more information on this later. Also Buildings will no doubt cost resources.

Resources:

There are two kinds of resources in Lithicraft

Minerals which will be used to build structures and acquire upgrades.

Zephyr Gas which will be used to get new units.

Resources can be gathered for an individual by killing enemy troops. Resources for the team can be gatherd in different ways.

First of all a team gets minerals every couple seconds but in very low amounts or someone on the team can mine a mineral field and take the resouces back to the Command Building. Now half of these resources would go to each player on the team. So if your team has lets say 30 minerals each player on the team will have 15 letting them use these resources to upgrade to another unit.

Zephyr Gas is gathered from a geyser which the teams Commander can build a Resource Tower on.

Also the less people a team has the more resources they and their team starts with making teams more fair if they are uneven.

Objective:

A team has lost a game when their Command Building has been destroyed. When this is done the opposing team has won.

Although the biggest objective of Lithicraft is for everyone to have fun!

you can check out more info here. www.lithocraft.city-17.com

seems like a nice mod

thanks man....yea were well on our way to complete this mod, except we still need more people such as coders/modelers so if you interested please email me at matt_dunn@comcast.net or visit the site/forums

btw counter strike is not a mmorpg

yea it is bro. MMORPG stand for Masvily Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, now if im nto mistaken alot people play CS, its is only multiplayer and online, and your player either a CT or a T so would u call taht Role playing? trust me it is

no it is not, its a tactical first person shooter or something like that, look i am 100% sure that is not a mmorpg

Yeah. And I suppose you're gonna call hammy-bob mod an MMORPG also?

oh, but it is

duff wrote: yea it is bro. MMORPG stand for Masvily Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, now if im nto mistaken alot people play CS, its is only multiplayer and online, and your player either a CT or a T so would u call taht Role playing? trust me it is

It does not compare to an RPG tho you said massivly multiplayer, yes, but the role playing game, no? Role playing game is something of the likes of Final Fantasy series, if im mistaken, that is not like CS

- Edited By cHIs-wK On Tue 19th, Aug 2003 @ 1:37:24pm

ne way back to the topic.....

yea no way..

- Edited By duff On Mon 25th, Aug 2003 @ 10:41:06pm

bump

omg 3 posts, well at least say something related to the mod

Hey I like the idea behind this mod. An RTS game in FPS form.

Would players spawn from teh buildings used to create them, (I assume so, and my real question is) would you be able to destroy the building and not allow that type of unit to spawn until it's rebuilt? And if there are more buildings and not enough players it simply reduces the spawn time for the player?

Would there be bots to fill in empty positions? Kinda pointless to be able to create all types of units when you have 4 other people on your team.

Will there be vehicles?

The answer to your question is yes to all except the vehicles we are still debating on that. WHat do ytou think?

Hey. I'm nott he only one that posted 3 times.

NE ways I like this concept. I'm very interested.

thanks were are alll still working hard on this one..

good luck i hope you do a good mod.