Aircraft effected by nukes?

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Possibly i'm hopeful, could you see schools purchasing SupCom to demonstrate the effects of a nuke to surrounding object? Or is the caffeine i've had today effecting?

dan d:)

Hmmm... reducing coffee usage might be the best solution available to you... although nuclear physics might be made more interesting this way!

Would just like to point out that see_it_was_the_devil's avatar is none other than Radiskull and Devil Doll!

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Talking of which, it would be a nice touch if units were to flee the blast zone by themselves once a nuke is dropped. There would be no benefits whatsoever to staying in the area so it would be intelligent to try and escape the blast.

Personally, I want more real time control. I want to actually control my troops, with less automation than some suggest.

I want to still feel that where I put my focus in the game makes an impact. Not only in building placement or unit selection, but in unit control during battle situations as well.

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"The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good. In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Controlling the troops yourself may be fun if you like it, but it would be nice to see the units doing something theirself.

I'll be happy if they can just have excellent pathfinding and good AI as they move in formations from point A to Z. Something other RTS's have trouble with.

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"The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good. In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Speaking of nukes affecting the air (SWEET! I can't wait to see that!) how about other wind patterns, like the jet stream or tornadoes?

Anyway, seeing aircraft get hit by some invisible shockwave moving outward from the epicenter of the nuke, the fast ones trembling as they scream away, the slow ones smashed and spiraling out of control, hitting units on the ground... Sweet.

I don't see CT going that far with the environmental conditions but it would be great to see planes doing spiral crashes and see ground units in the blast wave being thrown about before they either get vaporized or dammaged heavily.

Not to get off topic here, but I feel that the nuke's cloud should last more than a few seconds after the blast. Give it like a minute or two. I think it would be interesting if the clould effected units LOS or movement speed while near the center of the cloud. Would this not be cool to see, or is it just me?

Anyway, nukes should indeed effect planes over a fairly big radius (that is if they don't out run the blast) and the damage should vary depending on how close you are; If your fighter is right in ground-zero, it simply is vapored whereas your bomber on the edge of the blast is tossed about some and damaged only slightly. This would make nukes slightly more versatile and pleasing to the eye (can't wait to use one on those pesky flying carriers )

Firing a nuke on a flying carrier? You'll need a fast nuke I wanna see that.

Ah, but is the carrier going to be a cumbersome city-block full of nukes itself, or an elegant speedy flying wing from which planes disembark like butterflies from a flower?

Aside the point. The point I bring up is, the nature of the flying carrier, and of the nuke itself are a bit ambiguous. Let me correct that, the delivery of the nuke. I have to wonder if there's going to be more warning that TA or if it's going to be more speedy no-warning death.

...and if the carriers might not have anti-nukes built in. That might make sense; it would ensure that an area was contested only by conventional means without the necessity of advance-antinukebuilding-advance. Like the Scarab/Hedgehog (unsure on names).

I get the feeling, though, that nukes will be universally devastating considering the aircraft tactics this game will make possible; to do otherwise would make one strategy superior.

-KK

I suppose aircraft carriers will be fast, they're aircraft after all. If they're too heavy to move fast, then they're too heavy to lift too. At least too fast to use a nuke

Concerning nukes, there might be different speeds. Maybe short-range tactical nukes can go faster...

Ah, see I was considering the possibility of 'flying' possibly meaning more 'hovering with movement', but I suppose flying does imply speed.

That's pretty much the way I pictured the flying carrier aswell. It would divert most of its energy to lift and only a little to horizontal movement. I don't think it will be speedy as far as planes go, but it will more than likely by faster than its water bound cousin.

Another concern of mine is whether or not submarines will be effected by nukes . The first empire earth neglected this (probably on purpose) and really bothered me. Nukes should effect all planes of combat now. The only reason to inhibit them before was they couldn't really be shot down. Now that SupCom has anti-nuke systems, there is no reason to make nukes less than realistic in power if you ask me (an anti-nuke sub would be interesting).

An antinuke sub - or underwater antinukes for your (underwater) base.

Hey guys, check out something for me. Go to http://www.scfansite.com and tell me if I am imagining things. If you guys look closely at the screen with the two UEF battleships fighting off the Cybran fleet, tell if you see a freaking huge sub above the UEF battleship in the right. What the heck is it ??? Its the size of a battleship; maybe a sub-carrier or a monster nuke sub? I don't think its a nuke sub because it looks a bit different than the one in the old screens from Gamespy. I am pretty sure that it's a sub carrier because... well see it for your self here:
http://www.jeux-strategie.com/upload/js/Terran_Submarine_Aircraft_Carrier.jpg

Sorry, I don't know how to make links!

About nukes and carriers and such, there are more possibilities for the whole lot of it than have been done in the past. Nukes can be dropped in bombs and fired ICBM-style, yes, but the "nuke" part of it is simply the warhead. There is no reason why one couldn't be put in a missile chassis designed to shoot down aircraft, or in a torpedo, or an orbital bombardment.

Carriers are similar. A flying carrier would be AWESOME, but this has sorta already showed up and was shot down (heehee!) in the zeppelins post. Now, a non-zeppelin flying carrier is all well and good, but isn't it essentially the same thing? So we have monster flying aircraft carriers, monster anti-air weapons platforms with antinukes onboard, floating artillery bombard platforms, super heavy ground support platforms, whatever. And yes, aircraft carriers should be outfitted with an antinuke, or else have a ship (cruiser? specialized ship with antinuke lasers, missiles, and detection for nukes?) to put in their fleet. And there should be at least one land equivalent, and in addition, air units with the capability to shoot down nukes.

 

A tags arn't hard when you use them often enough. It's like tying your shoelaces, but simpler Open and close them with <angular> brackets.

 

 here's a demonstration using normal brackets

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Thanks, No2117. This will be helpful. Anyway, what is your pic of ? Is that a cake ?

Yep, battenberg cake. It's a basic sponge cake, with half of the mixture having a colour added to it, then glued together with apricot jam and sealed with marzipan. Not ony are they a culinary delight, they're the engineers cake. Why? Because I like to cute them into strips, then cubes, using light green and dark green cubes. Then glue with blue apricot jam, and a layer of black/green marzipan. It's a 'borg'enberg cake which resitance is futile.

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*Drools*

In TA it was possible to hit planes, though the missle had to collide with the plane. I was amazed when, during a skirmish in TA, my nuke aimed at a instigator hit a plane above it and spared the cannon.