16th August 2004, 4:43 PM
(This post was last modified: 16th August 2004, 4:58 PM by alien space marine.)
A Black Falcon Wrote:Gnomes designed things like the Flying Machine and, I think, Steam Tank, but Dwarves actually operate them in War3... I wish Gnomes were. One of War3's few bad things, imo. :)
Sea mounts for heroes? Bad idea. They tried flying heroes and grounded all of them because it gave them too much power... sea is a bit more limiting but it'd still cause horrible issues. Better not, I think.
I'm sure that if they tried they could balance it out... Blizz is masters of balancing things (eventually), so if they really worked at it they could get it right, don't worry. :)
As for sea units themselves, I certainly admit that I liked them in War2 and liked them in the War3 expansion. But War3 multiplayer... you'd need to make all new maps for sea combat, first. There aren't many I know of that have seaports (none in ladder I believe...), after all... and that would be a huge undertaking. It takes quite a while for Blizz to make maps... this factor alone will probably keep them from ever making seaports normal buildings in War3. What I would like to see, as I have said, are some of their maps of the week/month (whatever it is) to be sea maps. :)
Sea battles would have to be a gameplay option , If you dont want to play it you should have the option of checking it off.You will find a equal amount of people craving for Naval warfare namely old War2 fans then people who hate it.
Getting maps well blizzard is resourceful , I would have a map contest to acomplish this, Get people who are artist and level designers to apply to get the updated build editor kit once they have submited 2 maps blizzard will then expire the kit to prevent hackers and abusers.It would be like a contest but for professionals, The winner would recieve a job at blizzard and a free copy of the game and other goodies. Make 5 maps and then have a beta to fix it out and make it fun, Blizzard made a map called Islands it didnt work out to good because blizzard neverly really supported it , The Air units over dominated the map and people were fustrated because its a map made for focusing on Sea combat but the only sea faring was crappy bland transports so basically this was a half finnished incomplete map that would have worked if only the game functioned differently.
The Dwarf flying machine is shit it sucks as a scout it doesnt even serve its own purpose , I would redo the hole thing appearence and performance all of it from scratch. I would make it look like a Wright brothers plane with a properler and more closer to the original, Secondly It would be a Gnomish flying machine again. It would be a spy plane, It would have smoke screens and flare markers most importantly true seeing option.Secondly I would allow sorcessoress to make it invisible to be honnest there is nothing unfair about it because you already have the shade which is perminant.