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Base Assault

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eleazar:

--- Quote from: Zorlen on February 04, 2008, 07:25:45 am ---The other idea is building a sort of security station on the base and assigning soldiers and UGWs there in the same manner as for aircrafts. In this case, only security personnel defends the base, while aircraft crews, well, perform regular aircraft maintenance.

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That sounds like a very unnecessary dividing of the usually limited soldiers available.

SpaceWombat:
Eleazar is right.
I think -again- a redesigned soldier handling menu (recruiting/team assignment/equipment/training/hospital assignment) will solve a huge amount of problems existing right now and lift the gameplay to a new experience.
Before the mission starts this menu could show up and you would be able to mobilize all your fighting personnel for defense (you cannot recruit if soldiers will arrive delayed in the future) no matter whether they are assigned to an aircraft.

Zorlen:

--- Quote from: eleazar on February 04, 2008, 05:55:06 pm ---That sounds like a very unnecessary dividing of the usually limited soldiers available.

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Yep, it does :-)
I was not serious about aircraft maintenance part.
Perhaps there should be some pre-mission aircraft/security reassignment of soldiers. The purpose of suggested "security station" is to have a best-suited and appropriately armed team for defending your base rather than random eight soldiers from your list.


--- Quote from: SpaceWombat on February 04, 2008, 08:02:01 pm ---Before the mission starts this menu could show up and you would be able to mobilize all your fighting personnel for defense (you cannot recruit if soldiers will arrive delayed in the future) no matter whether they are assigned to an aircraft.

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I was thinking of it, but I tried to suggest something that not changes the way the soldiers are handled now. Pre-mission assignment/equipment interface sounds an obvious solution, but as long as unassigned soldiers lose their equipment, you'll have to re-equip them from the scratch before each base assault.
Though if a new system is going to be implemented, I tend to agree with you.

eleazar:

--- Quote from: Zorlen on February 04, 2008, 08:10:32 pm ---...but as long as unassigned soldiers lose their equipment...

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That's a recognized problem anyway

nemchenk:
The "special 'Base Defense Roster' aircraft" solution has the merit of needing very minimal coding -- you can set your own up just by tweaking the scripts, in fact. I'm a nobody here right now :D but I would recommend getting something into the game now, and then working on a new and improved solution without holding back another release... It may be clunky, but at the moment there are no base attacks at all :(


nemchenk

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