Once in space, the ships could a) fight one another, and b) affect ground battles by launching weakened nukes to the land terrain.functioning like catapults in space. I guess you'd have to find a way to get your spaceships up there, but it could be done by rebasing them to a space station from a land-bound city launch pad. So, the regular land terrain would be on the bottom, with a space "plane" to the north (which would look like "above"), which could just be given a generic space-looking terrain, with impassable atmosphere terrain between the two.
You wouldn't really need a separate map, just a map that is larger vertically. That's a really cool idea.gives of the feeling of two battles happening in parallel, space and land.
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I don't know if anyone else followed this train of thought back in Civ 2, and I didn't shop around much for other space type mods or scenarios when i was at work, so I apologize if to anyone I seem to be taking credit for others work.ĭon't know if this'll help you or not in your endeavors, but I just thought I'd throw in my $0.02 on the subect. Never decided whether or not to make fighter units actual fighters or leave them as naval units before I gave up.Īs for a 'planet side' map (ie, highland or plains) the terrain obviously wouldn't need anywhere near as much modification. All the space units (ie, capital ships, starfighters etc) would be flagged 'naval' units for that purpose, though all ground units (stormtroopers, etc) still flagged as ground units. The I would try to have a few of the actual "land" type terrains (represented by planets/stars/moons etc) where you could start colonies. What I tried to do before losing patience (and ultimately interest) was for the 'galactic' maps make them use mostly "water" type terrain (ie, black with a few dots of stars to represent the emptiness of space and to keep the AI from putting pointless outposts evywhere). I've tried tinkering with mods before in the past, and tried to come up with something similar for Civ 2 waaaaaaaay back in the day. Transport-MTS (Massive Transport of Spaceships)Īt any rate.