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kraftwerk	Nov 7 2009, 7:48am Anchor
kraftwerk	This probably sounds like the weirdest idea youve ever heard, but here goes. What if there was an RTS sandbox, simmilar to garrys mod. You have a spawn menu for different teams and different races, and can edit the level in real time by placing "props" of some sort. Anyone think this is a good idea?
RATZGobbler	Nov 10 2009, 10:23pm Anchor
RATZGobbler	That actually sounds pretty logical to me. You don't have to wander around to get back to another part of your project and it gives you a nice bird's-eye view of the whole thing. Designing vehicles from that angle really gives perspective of the measure. In short I think the concept could fly successfully, but from what could we make it?
kraftwerk	Nov 11 2009, 6:29am Anchor
kraftwerk	Hmm... Well, it would be very inclined for NPC warring, perhaps the SC2 engine? I don't think the iron engine fits the bill... I'd go with SC2 myself. Once it comes out of course
O N L I N E Gibberstein Generic Coder Type Thing	Nov 11 2009, 6:43pm Anchor
O N L I N E Gibberstein Generic Coder Type Thing	It's sounds intrigueing, how would you hope to stop it becoming a spamfest of creating top-end units endlessly and abusing the terrain modding tools? If you can tame the chaos it would certainly feel very different to any other RTS. You'll need to see how flexible that SC2 engine is - it looks fairly flexible, but no-one can know for sure til it's released. If it doesn't fit the bill, you're going to need to look at an open-source engine I reckon, to give you full control of the code. -- "lets say Portal is a puzzle game, so its a rehash of Tetris" - Wraiyth points out the craziness of stereotyping games by their genre
kraftwerk	Nov 12 2009, 8:17pm Anchor
kraftwerk	Well, I was planning on it being more of an open sandbox to do whatever, maybe there could be gametypes or what not?
Mr_Cyberpunk Game Developer	Nov 12 2009, 9:59pm Anchor
Mr_Cyberpunk Game Developer	I thought RTS by nature was a sandbox?.. Well city builders anyway I mean just look at Tropico- that entire game thrives on Sandbox. Edited by: Mr_Cyberpunk
kraftwerk	Nov 13 2009, 4:42pm Anchor
kraftwerk	By Open Sandbox, I was refering to a sandbox with no goals, like in garrysmod. Stuff like Civilization and Sim city still has goals, garrysmod, (Or at least the sandbox) does not.
Mr_Cyberpunk Game Developer	Nov 13 2009, 8:34pm Anchor
Mr_Cyberpunk Game Developer	Someone wrote:tuff like Civilization and Sim city still has goals Not really, you can turn those goals off in Civ and SimCity. --