Command RTS

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There is only one unit, a bot. It can harvest, attack, build or upgrade. There are two resources ore and fuel.

Bots can go down different upgrade paths.

  • Shop: Better at building and upgrading and building, but can no longer harvest. Substantial increase in weight.
    • Factory: Best at building
    • Lab: Best at upgrading
      • Military Lab: improvements for upgrading weapons and defense
      • Industrial Lab: improvements for speed and harvesting
  • Motors: 4 stages (2-4 require factory, lab, industrial lab respectively) increases max speed and improves fuel efficiency (but new max speed is less distance efficient). Movement speed is based on weight.
  • Weapons: various strategic improvements
  • Shielding: increases armor
    • Plating: further increases armor
    • Deflector: reduces damage at the cost of fuel. Also consumes fuel when running. 1 second boot time
  • Sensors
    • Upgrade camera: can see further directly in front of bot
    • Panoramic camera: can see a little ways all around bot
    • Radar: can find ore and enemies at a long distance
  • Mining: improves mining speed
    • Drill: improves ore mining
    • Pump: increases fuel mining
    • Trunk: increases carrying capacity

Bots can be controlled directly. They can also be assigned scripts to follow. Scripts also allow bots to issue orders to each other. Orders come with a priority, so if one bot issue a command to another bot, the command will only be followed if it has a higher priority.