MP Antiquity Mount&Gladius v2.0 [8/23/10] Poll Added

[Sylke]

- Carthaginians (A major power and enemy of rome, too bad they can't have elephants  )

Or could they....i wonder if anyone has attempted to ever make rideable elephants. Iv seen cars, iv seen bikes, iv seen starwars speeders so why not a big fat elephant?

The big problem would be that you would have elephants with horse sounds and they would be able to jump. Imagine a jumping elephant with hoove sounds
And they often used elephants with more than one person which is impossible in M&B. Another problem is that you will just stop if you crash with a horse. You can't really simulate the damage an elephant would cause by just giving them a very high charge stat. And it would probably be unbalanced if all Carthaginian are running around with elephants crushing anything in their path. On top of all that you would have to make new animations and all that.

 

[Whural]

why not spartans

 

[Renneko]

why not spartans

spartans are greek silly!

 

[Temuzu]

- Carthaginians (A major power and enemy of rome, too bad they can't have elephants  )

Or could they....i wonder if anyone has attempted to ever make rideable elephants. Iv seen cars, iv seen bikes, iv seen starwars speeders so why not a big fat elephant?

Reason is that they are very hard to rig. Rigging means making the rider sit in the right place, correct hitboxes, new skeleton (Dont quote me on this though) and all that. It can take a lot of time. Hegemony mod had elephants, but its kinda like the urban legend of MnB.

 

[King Harkinian]

- Carthaginians (A major power and enemy of rome, too bad they can't have elephants  )

Or could they....i wonder if anyone has attempted to ever make rideable elephants. Iv seen cars, iv seen bikes, iv seen starwars speeders so why not a big fat elephant?

Reason is that they are very hard to rig. Rigging means making the rider sit in the right place, correct hitboxes, new skeleton (Dont quote me on this though) and all that. It can take a lot of time. Hegemony mod had elephants, but its kinda like the urban legend of MnB.

They were pretty cool. They had a few problems with the rigging but they looked convincing enough.

 

[Highelfwarrior]

Nowadays you could have actual big elephants, but they'd probably walk a little bit funny.

 

[Fürst_Metternich]

i think elephants are possible but they could't as op like they are in rome 
it was also possible to stop a war elephant with spears - even elephants arent stupid enough to run into a spearwall (they are very clever by the way)
it is possible to avoid elephantspaming by making him very expensive (around 5k).
also they woul be very slow so you could simply kill them with pilums or cav - they should be a little be slower like heavy horses

warelephants would make this mod extreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeem awsome - right now its just extreeeeeeeeem awsome

 

[Sylke]

Sounds like it is actually possible, yay 

 

[Ratman]

anyone for spartacus?

all factions named on this poll:
1. Greeks/Macedon
2. Parthia
3. Carthage
4. Germanic tribes
5. Dacia
6. Scyhtia
7. Iberian tribes
8. Caladonian celts
9. Spartacus Rebel Army
10. Egypt

dunno why i did this just wanted to make a list

RaT

 

[Untitled.]

You do know that gladius means penis in latin? I was very disappointed when I saw the pics. I might just now stab you with my gladius

 

[Ratman]

*cough* uhmmm... nice word for a sword "Penis" dont know why a sword so commonly used had such a name. I dont call my computer "Butt" do I?!
                                       
                           

 

[Sylke]

anyone for spartacus?
1. Greeks/Macedon
2. Parthia
3. Carthage
4. Germanic tribes
5. Dacia
6. Scythia
7. Iberian tribes
8. Caledonians/Picts
9. Spartacus' Rebel Army
10. Ptolemaic Egypt

Fixed 

 

[King Harkinian]

*cough* uhmmm... nice word for a sword "Penis" dont know why a sword so commonly used had such a name. I dont call my computer "Butt" do I?!
                                       
                         

It was slang, actually. Like "hey babe, wanna see my gladius?"

 

[Scarf Ace]

*cough* uhmmm... nice word for a sword "Penis" dont know why a sword so commonly used had such a name. I dont call my computer "Butt" do I?!
                                       
                         

It was slang, actually. Like "hey babe, wanna see my gladius?"

A gladius? Pfft, Pathetic. Check out my spatha, ladies!

 

[Sylke]

*cough* uhmmm... nice word for a sword "Penis" dont know why a sword so commonly used had such a name. I dont call my computer "Butt" do I?!
                                       
                         

It was slang, actually. Like "hey babe, wanna see my gladius?"

A gladius? Pfft, Pathetic. Check out my spatha, ladies!

Lol  , you are right, a gladius is very short compared to a spatha... 

 

[King Harkinian]

*cough* uhmmm... nice word for a sword "Penis" dont know why a sword so commonly used had such a name. I dont call my computer "Butt" do I?!
                                       
                         

It was slang, actually. Like "hey babe, wanna see my gladius?"

A gladius? Pfft, Pathetic. Check out my spatha, ladies!

Oh yeah? Well my gladius is wider!

...

...

*insecure Roman*

*Roman Empire is overrun by Barbarians with long spathas and a bigger ego*

 

[Cheeya]

Get on

 

[Sahran]

There's one big problem for having the Macedonians and other Hellenistic states: The Phalanx. There's already an issue with enough players on the server and the only way you could achieve a sufficient Phalanx (without organizing massive, +80 player games) is to have the AI.

With an old fashioned Greek Phalanx it'd be a lot easier to pull off with the smaller engagements of M&G games.

 

[Llew2]

Lol @ Gladius discussion. 

There's one big problem for having the Macedonians and other Hellenistic states: The Phalanx. There's already an issue with enough players on the server and the only way you could achieve a sufficient Phalanx (without organizing massive, +80 player games) is to have the AI.

With an old fashioned Greek Phalanx it'd be a lot easier to pull off with the smaller engagements of M&G games.

Phalanx would rarely work anyway. People would just do the whole Leonidas thing.

 

[Renneko]

The greek phalanx is shieldwall with spears, to make that working you need to animited the spear attack that the shield wel be always up