goldenhorde44
12-13-2011, 03:33 PM
Subject:
Customizable unit colors
Description:
Make it so you can "tint" your units (particularly vehicles/buildings) in different color shades to and for greater storytelling/immersion potential. So for example with the EU faction, you could have vehicles colors schemed as UN Peacekeepers (sparkly white with maybe a little blue), Euroforce Command (chrome, like in the cinematic) German Bundswehr (metal grey), Basrah Stabilization Force (desert beige).
Positive Effect:
-can be used by players to differentiate their units without having too obvious colors (like CC Generals one putting US rangers in blue jumpsuits)
-greater storytelling/immersion potential
-maybe can let ppl basically create their own subfactions without touching balance? like some player will naturally want to make an British color scheme or a Canadian Expeditionary Force. that kind of thing
-the dawn of war series has a similar mechanic and it's been a huge hit... and they haven't touched on custom factions that people could maybe related more to, because they are plausibly real world.
Negative Effect:
-someone's just going to make an all pink army for the hell of it, which might spoil the immersion for someone playing online. or ppl will just get a good laugh, who knows
Customizable unit colors
Description:
Make it so you can "tint" your units (particularly vehicles/buildings) in different color shades to and for greater storytelling/immersion potential. So for example with the EU faction, you could have vehicles colors schemed as UN Peacekeepers (sparkly white with maybe a little blue), Euroforce Command (chrome, like in the cinematic) German Bundswehr (metal grey), Basrah Stabilization Force (desert beige).
Positive Effect:
-can be used by players to differentiate their units without having too obvious colors (like CC Generals one putting US rangers in blue jumpsuits)
-greater storytelling/immersion potential
-maybe can let ppl basically create their own subfactions without touching balance? like some player will naturally want to make an British color scheme or a Canadian Expeditionary Force. that kind of thing
-the dawn of war series has a similar mechanic and it's been a huge hit... and they haven't touched on custom factions that people could maybe related more to, because they are plausibly real world.
Negative Effect:
-someone's just going to make an all pink army for the hell of it, which might spoil the immersion for someone playing online. or ppl will just get a good laugh, who knows