[Altered Melee] any idies for a custom resource gathering system

[andreasaspenberg]

it is for good aligned orcs. i am completely out of resource gathering ideas.

 

[cleavinghammer]

Maybe an automated mine that doesn't require workers (via magic)? As for trees, give Grunts the ability to gather lumber.

 

[kakuzu]

Maybe the shamans could be used to harvest the gold mine , like the undeads acolyte.

 

[andreasaspenberg]

i am already using the undead gathering system for the evil orcs and i already use grunts to gather lumber in another project. that automated mine idea i want to hear more about.

 

[cleavinghammer]

Basically the automated refinery from SC2. Here either set it to drain the gold every few seconds via triggers (you can probably make it take upkeep into account), or make it a haunted mine and create invisible, unselectable, 0-food gatherer units that die as soon as the mine does. For all intents and purposes, the gold is gathering itself.

Other possibilities: flying gatherers, gatherers that grab gold in huge chunks (say 5000 instead of 100) but take a lot longer, having no gatherers but the main building channels resources...

 

[andreasaspenberg]

buildings creating resources i am already using for the law factions and the constructor underworld faction. one of my ideas is to use the night elf system, any good ideas for that?

 

[cleavinghammer]

Depends on who would need a suicidal builder. Maybe a magic faction that depends on summons?

 

[andreasaspenberg]

it is a divine orc faction.

 

[cleavinghammer]

Okay, but divine how? Good-aligned, or everyone in gold armor, paladins and holy powers?

... I kinda want to see an all gold-and-white armor Horde now.

 

[andreasaspenberg]

there is tauren paladins and troll priests. i have called that orc clan the church clan. i use no custom models for the orcs.(i have to prioritise other races due to map limitations.) custom systems takes very little space though.