4 Resources? - Page 2

Psiclone · 2012-03-10, 10:32 AM

Originally Posted by Warborn

Unobtainium

LOOKIT ALL DAT CHEDDAR

Obtainium

PrISM · 2012-03-10, 10:43 AM

Food, hammers, science and culture are the four resources. When your outfit isn't doing any fighting, they should be out building farms and mines to increase these.

Skitrel · 2012-03-10, 11:51 AM

Originally Posted by PrISM

Food, hammers, science and culture are the four resources. When your outfit isn't doing any fighting, they should be out building farms and mines to increase these.

No no no no. That's how noobs play. You have to be out building cottages. Cottages. MORE cottages.

**Malorn** · 2012-03-10, 01:16 PM

Gonna throw out a few serious names and a resource design idea w/RP lore to boot...

So here's some hypothetical materials and the lore around them and why each empire uses it heavily, moderately, or lightly. Each faction could have a Primary, secondary, and tertiary resource need, with all factions requiring Auraxium.

So the ideas behind this.... 4 resources, 1 unifying Auraxium, which leaves 3 others. 3 factions...so perhaps each resource has significance more to one faction than another. All empires use all materials, but each empire has slightly different needs.

Vanite = Primary for VS, Secondary for TR, Tertiary for NC
Unitium = Primary for TR, Secondary for NC, Tertiary for VS
Liberatium = Primary for NC, Secondary for VS, Tertiary for TR

Vanite - Common material found in Vanu artifacts and the focus of much VS research. This material has mysterious properties that seem to defy the laws of physics. Utilized heavily in VS hover technology and energy weapons. The TR have yet to unlock its true potential and use it merely for resurrection and primitive nanite control mediums for faster vehicles. The NC use it lightly, as they believe Vanite is can be used as a form of Mind control and blame it for VS fanaticism and often cite early TR experiments with it for populace pacification.

Unitium - Material the Terran Republic discovered soon after arriving on Auraxis, believing it key to their survival and holding the human race together. It is a highly resilient but light material known for withstanding and adjusting to great stresses of temperature and vibration. TR use this in weapons technology to push rate of fire to incredible limits, and create light and fast vehicles that retain strength. NC use it moderately as it is a core composition of many of their older model weapons and vehicles. VS have little need for this material, believing it to be inferior to Vanite and archaic designs. Derived from "Unite" obviously, from TR's "Unity through Force" slogan.

Liberatium - Material discovered by NC weapons researchers and utilized heavily for Gauss, shielding, and armor technology due to its unique magnetic properties and unrivaled strength. VS also use this material to make a Vanite composite for a variety of uses. The TR only use this material in small quantities due to maintaining an image for their elaborate public propaganda campaign to discredit the NC's inferior technologies and refute NC claims that this material will lead to the end of human oppression. Derived from NC"s "Freedom over Oppression" slogan.

I think this might open up good tactical and strategic options for Resource Denial that Higby mentioned early on when describing the PS2 resource system. The TR might not need much Liberatium, but they know it might lead to fewer upgraded Vangaurds, so they might take it to deny that resource. Meanwhile VS and NC both want Liberatium for their own needs, so we have interesting tactical results from this sort of design.

Just some ideas, feel free to add to them or propose alternate names.