Commander res stash.

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  1. Aquillion

    Aquillion Member

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    I saw this mentioned offhand in another thread. I thought it deserved a suggestion thread of its own.

    Everyone hates it when the comm has to restrict vehicle construction. But it's hard to save money for big purchases without doing so.

    So I suggest the following: Add a 'stash res' button to the comm interface. Maybe two buttons -- stash 100 res, stash 500 res.

    Pushing those buttons essentially stashes that much res in a separate pile, where your team can't use it, but the comm can use it for constructions and research. In this fashion, a comm could slowly put res into that reserve without restricting vehicles, and could reserve exactly the amount they need for some big expense a bit in advance, without having to restrict vehicle creation overall.

    Money from the stash is spent before general-pool money, when the comm spends res.

    Perhaps another button could release the cache back to general use, in an emergency.

    Anyway, just a thought.
     
  2. .:.HeXi.:. emcalex329

    .:.HeXi.:. emcalex329 Member

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    Yes, I like it.
    Nothing is more irritating than have the Commander restrict vehicles to have enough res for heavies, and then forget to unrestrict after heavies.
     
  3. recon

    recon SM Support Dev

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    This is not a good idea... Suppose commanders save res most of the round (annoying for the team, screws with game play)? Or they save it and forget about it?
     
  4. -=SIP=-

    -=SIP=- Member

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    Fail commander will always fail. So no valid argument for me.

    For the suggestion I can think, that I could be helpful but I never needed this as commander. Restricting VF was always good enough for me.
     
  5. Aquillion

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    Remember, any res they cache will be spent first on any research or construction. So forgetting it isn't really a problem as long as you don't cache an absurd amount -- you'll just spend it quickly anyway, unless you're not building or researching (in which case your team is doomed anyway.)

    And you can't really grief with it, because after you've been kicked out and replaced, someone else can just spend it or release it.

    (There could be a cap on the maximum amount that could be cached at once, I suppose.)
     
  6. angry hillbilly

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    I think this is a very good idea. I would deff use this. Id set up the main account for the team and the stash account for rushes and reserch. I like it :D it would be a very good emergancy pot if ur under attack and need res quick.

    The way i would play this is to like put 100 or 300 or summit thoughout the game into the pot to let it build up. Very good idea i like it :D
     
  7. ScardyBob

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    Yes, plz!
     
  8. Morbid|Death

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    How about building a bank and have this stash accumulate interest?:D
     
  9. OuNin

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    comm could easily do the same thing with restricting the VF
     
  10. Roflcopter Rego

    Roflcopter Rego Member

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    Mhm... could also be used for saving some monies for rushes, slowly accumulate then flood it back into the general pool. I liek.
     
  11. Trickster

    Trickster Retired Developer

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    I actually really like this idea.

    Or even more useful is if I could split the resource income I was getting into the team pool and the commander pool. That way I could allow my team vehicles to a certain extent, without having to restrict most of the time.
     
  12. blizzerd

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    a button that could donate 20% of the res pool to the commander pool, and a button that did the reverse with 20% would be best imo

    this way the commander can save up, research and do stuff, and if he saves too much and its released back into the pool then fuck yea tanks :p
     
  13. Varbles

    Varbles Simply Maptastic. Staff Member

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    sounds great
     
  14. Solokiller

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    When i saw this thread i thought it was going to be about setting a minimum amount of res that would always be available, eg: you have 1000 res, you set the minimum to 200, when somebody tries to buy something that would bring it under 200 res, it wouldn't work.
     
  15. ViroMan

    ViroMan Black Hole (*sniff*) Bully

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    I don't like the 100 or 500 button(to much micromanagement) but, I do like the idea of a toggle/check-box that adds % of income into a separate account for com. Not much frustrates me more then having plenty of cash to get the research and then ppl spam 4 tanks and now I can't afford what I wanted.
     
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  16. manbeef

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    This is good, add it.
     
  17. Ikalx

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    I would say you could stock up to 2000 res only (most expensive thing in the tech tree - i.e. Nuke) and if the money doesn't get used for 10 minutes it gets released back to the team - to prevent griefing.

    A 100 res and 500 res button is good, although I kinda want a 200 res button somewhere instead - maybe 200 instead of 100.
     
  18. blizzerd

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    i would definately go for a XX percentage button, since you only need 1 button to do all the work
     
  19. Headshotmaster

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    vote kick the commander.


    HOLY SHIT WHAT A CONCEPT!
     
  20. ScardyBob

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    Yeah, but I don't like to do that as comm. It pisses off my team and sometimes I forgot its locked. Its also hard to guess when you should lock the VF so that you get exactly the amount of res needed when the current research finishes.
     

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