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Sugg: Choose your own loadouts[message #315226]

Wed, 06 February 2013 18:39

deknegt

Messages:140
Registered:June 2007
Location: Doetinchem, Netherlands

Well, didn't know if this has been asked or made in a certain mod.

But with the advent of being able to choose loadouts a while ago, I have always wondered if it would be possible to go a step further. And that is the acquisition of your own merc loadout before you ever take a step in Aruclo.

I don't know if it's possible, but it would be awesome if you could just hire your AIM/MERC/IMP dudes, and have them arrive with absolutely nothing but the shirt and pants they are wearing.

You would have to use the remaining money to buy the guns/armor/lbe/ammo etc. all by yourself. Maybe through BR or a whole different store entirely.

Not only would it give a lot more versatility in terms of choosing mercs and then giving them what you want. It would also bring forth a challenge, since you need to equip all your guys on a tight budget (especially on higher diff's) and you would have to make sure that they land with good equipment that won't get them killed from the get go.

Has there ever been an undertaking to create this, and is this even possible to implement?

I have hardly any coding skills aside from being able to make a little command prompt, so I have no clue if this is possible or not.

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Sergeant

Re: Sugg: Choose your own loadouts[message #315227]

Wed, 06 February 2013 19:13

Sam Hotte

Messages:1960
Registered:March 2009
Location: Middle of Germany

There have been some thoughts about a HQ sector like in X-Com:
http://www.ja-galaxy-forum.com/board/ubbthreads.php/topics/313746/Headquarters_sector.html

What you'd IMHO to do to achieve this:
1. remove/edit all the merc starting gear to nothing/plain clothes.
2. set arrival location to a certain map.
3. make this map (2.) a BRs delivery location.
4. have a teleporter from the "equipping" map (2.) to the real starting map (Omerta A9)
Now you could hire "naked" mercs, have them arrive in (2.), order gear at BRs, wait for delivery , equip and proceed to "real" game ...

But as there are different gear kits (at different prices) available for AIM as well as MERC in recent unstable builds it would probably less work to just mod those kits to your liking and go with this limited choice in versatility.

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Sergeant Major

Re: Sugg: Choose your own loadouts[message #315256]

Thu, 07 February 2013 16:54

tais

Messages:656
Registered:February 2008
Location: NL

Well... before I created NSGI it was actually the original plan to make a possibility to equip your mercs from a special inventory during the startup phase before you do the heli drop.

But due to the fact that it would kind of break game mechanics in the part of br's being available later on and the part of that it's a shitload of complicated coding work I chose for the gearkits instead, less disturbing of the game balance and elegantly integrated into the game.

Also there would be no way to get back to this magic inventory after you dropped into arulco so everything in there would be kinda lost.

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