How will special units for each civ balance one another?

[Lawrence of Arabia]

I was hoping that all of these 'special units' could be researched as minor techs. It would be a lot more realistic that way.

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[Zanzin]

I agree, Yog Sothoth. But, who knows...maybe Sid will come up with some super special way of doing unique units...fingers crossed!!

[belusa]

What if these unique units are just "unique" by the way they look? We don't know anything about them (specs), we just saw some of them in the screenshots. Will that make everybody happy? ... same units (attack, defense, ...), but with different look which still gives a certain uniqueness.

Just a thought ...

[tniem]

quote: Originally posted by King Richard on 04-29-2001 12:42 AM Options are always good! We'll probably get SMAC +++, there were quite a few options in SMAC as far as I can remember?

There were tons of options in SMAC. Overwhelming at times. It took five minutes of reading all the options before you could even start the game. Sometimes too many options is worse than too few options.

[ajbera]

quote: Originally posted by tniem on 05-09-2001 01:49 PM There were tons of options in SMAC. Overwhelming at times. It took five minutes of reading all the options before you could even start the game. Sometimes too many options is worse than too few options.

Then just play with the default options - no time wasted. I want even more options than SMAC had - maximize customizability. However, make certain there is a 'default settings' option to immediately play the game.

[Cyclotron]

Civ specific units might be balanced if every civ was given a unit for each age... this certainly fixes the "Zulu problem", but brings up another one: Some civs have not survived into the modern age... so what are the Zulus and Aztecs going to have for modern units?

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[ancient]

no russian MiGs Are better!

[Sabre2th]

I can't predict the future and I won't try. I also won't throw bad ideas out to get shot down ( ). I'll just wait it out and trust in the almighty Sid.

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[lord of the mark]

they wont be balanced. No one can playtest the strategies that players will come up with that the desingers havent envisioned.

Can anyone say "teuton town centers"?

LOTM

[lord of the mark]

quote: Originally posted by cyclotron7 on 05-09-2001 06:23 PM Civ specific units might be balanced if every civ was given a unit for each age... this certainly fixes the "Zulu problem", but brings up another one: Some civs have not survived into the modern age... so what are the Zulus and Aztecs going to have for modern units?

AOE gave the Sumerians iron age units, despite the sumerians being gone before actual iron age began.

once you do something as ahistorical as unique units, who cares about the aztec modern units?
its "only a game" after all.


LOTM

[Sabre2th]

Civ-specific units in that form COULD be a disaster, but we can't know for sure yet. What I would like is civ-specific graphics (and/or sounds) as an option, rather than whole units.

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