The Energon Pub

DtreetViper2 wrote:Actually I will be protecting the Bots backs. I have unfinished business with you Cons! So COME GET YEAH SOME PAIN

Sounds kinky.

Uncrazzimatic wrote:

Hollow One wrote:Actually, the location of the Pred's worries me, they've got all that nearby empty space to conquer while us other three factions will be killing each other attempting the same thing!

Yeah but theres only five of them, it'll take a long time for them to take all that territory and when they do there won't be enough of them to defend it all.

it just means no sleep for me

Symbiote Spiderman14 wrote:

Uncrazzimatic wrote:

Hollow One wrote:Actually, the location of the Pred's worries me, they've got all that nearby empty space to conquer while us other three factions will be killing each other attempting the same thing!

Yeah but theres only five of them, it'll take a long time for them to take all that territory and when they do there won't be enough of them to defend it all.

it just means no sleep for me

Don't worry, it's overrated anyways

Deadboy wrote:I take it adjacency has nothing to do with what territories can be attacked? If it does, the Preds have an enormous advantage in taking territory (which they obviously need as they are the smallest faction and are completely incompetent ).
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ah but you are forgetting they have defend FROM 5 attack vectors too, they could possibly end up having to defend their capitol from the Bots, Maxs, Cons, AND Quints Simeltaneously.

Symbiote Spiderman14 wrote:

Uncrazzimatic wrote:

Hollow One wrote:Actually, the location of the Pred's worries me, they've got all that nearby empty space to conquer while us other three factions will be killing each other attempting the same thing!

Yeah but theres only five of them, it'll take a long time for them to take all that territory and when they do there won't be enough of them to defend it all.

it just means no sleep for me

Soon it be time for me to get familiar with that concept of no sleep once again.

I guess it really is time to formulise a battle plan for the oncoming war.


Can't wait to find out how it works!

Here's a idea for the somewhat distant future, I could make a 3D map of Cybertron with various locations.

We could use some kind of a flash animation to spin it around

Omega Sentinel wrote:At that time there will also be new tactics, alts, weapons, the 2 new factions and the engine behind this map. The reset will occur at that time.

ZOMG, I can finally play again.

Each faction will start out in the following territories. Any new characters that are created by yourself or noobs later in the game will have to be deployed to a friendly or neutral territory of your choice.


So does this mean that all 12 of our transformers will be active when not in CR?

Omegacron wrote:So does this mean that all 12 of our transformers will be active when not in CR?

The territory each of your bots reside in is unrelated to whether they are Active/Available.

They will only need to be active when you are deploying your troops to a different territory.

Omega Sentinel wrote:

Omegacron wrote:So does this mean that all 12 of our transformers will be active when not in CR?

The territory each of your bots reside in is unrelated to whether they are Active/Available.

They will only need to be active when you are deploying your troops to a different territory.

Ahh I see thanks man

I'm interested to see what territories can attack what other territories...assuming it's not just attack anywhere from anywhere.

also curious how attacking neutral territories will work w/ 4 factions...which one ends up being the defending faction...will it just be random, will we be able to specify a specific faction we wish to invade within the territory assuming that faction has at least 1 point in the territory...im assuming (at least hoping) that individual commanders will get to generate missions. i.e. when there is no mission available to join pick a territory and a faction to attack in that territory and bam the mission is created.

Yeah, whether adjacency is an issue will make a huge difference in the strategy of the map, so I'm very interested in how that'll work.

I dunno if it's been suggested yet, but is there any chance to get the map of the entire planet instead of just half of it?

Absolute Zero wrote:I dunno if it's been suggested yet, but is there any chance to get the map of the entire planet instead of just half of it?

Not going to happen before launch. We will start with the 15 terrotories.

I was just wondering, because it seems (to me anyway) to make more sense if the faction start points were spaced out a bit better.

Absolute Zero wrote:I dunno if it's been suggested yet, but is there any chance to get the map of the entire planet instead of just half of it?

If you can find a picture of the back of Cybertron (or ifind someone to draw it), we may add it sometime in the future. It's extremely difficult to find a pic for the other side of Cybertron though

Mkall wrote:

Absolute Zero wrote:I dunno if it's been suggested yet, but is there any chance to get the map of the entire planet instead of just half of it?

If you can find a picture of the back of Cybertron (or ifind someone to draw it), we may add it sometime in the future. It's extremely difficult to find a pic for the other side of Cybertron though

What about Primus from the Cybertron/Galaxy Force line?

Absolute Zero wrote:

Mkall wrote:

Absolute Zero wrote:I dunno if it's been suggested yet, but is there any chance to get the map of the entire planet instead of just half of it?

If you can find a picture of the back of Cybertron (or ifind someone to draw it), we may add it sometime in the future. It's extremely difficult to find a pic for the other side of Cybertron though

What about Primus from the Cybertron/Galaxy Force line?

We can use that. The problem, however, is finding canon cities and locations. Cybertron is probably one of the most enigmatic things in Sci-fi. The map we have now was pieced together from comics, books and cartoon episodes. A few of them I had to just guess on their locations. The capitols are in the right spots and the starting points for the the factions are right but if we add anything else it would be alot of guesswork and I would need alot of help.

The way the deployment functions are set up, every new territory we add on the map would add exponential probabilities for troop movements so there is no way to expand the map before launch, but we can definitely expand it after the new game is up and running.

Is there going to be a "View Map" function on the HMW panel?

Omega Sentinel wrote:

Absolute Zero wrote:

Mkall wrote:

Absolute Zero wrote:I dunno if it's been suggested yet, but is there any chance to get the map of the entire planet instead of just half of it?

If you can find a picture of the back of Cybertron (or ifind someone to draw it), we may add it sometime in the future. It's extremely difficult to find a pic for the other side of Cybertron though

What about Primus from the Cybertron/Galaxy Force line?

We can use that. The problem, however, is finding canon cities and locations. Cybertron is probably one of the most enigmatic things in Sci-fi. The map we have now was pieced together from comics, books and cartoon episodes. A few of them I had to just guess on their locations. The capitols are in the right spots and the starting points for the the factions are right but if we add anything else it would be alot of guesswork and I would need alot of help.

The way the deployment functions are set up, every new territory we add on the map would add exponential probabilities for troop movements so there is no way to expand the map before launch, but we can definitely expand it after the new game is up and running.

Next time I go by the comic shop, I'll check to see if they have the atlas/history book.

I found some pictures of different angles, but nothing that shows a full wrap arround. I did find another possibility, if someone can cut the peices of Cybertron from the planet maps for the different waves in the Cybertron toyline, that may work as well. I thought the sonic canyons were in the southern hemisphere, but I see no problem with them being where they are now. I am confident I can find enough images to piece together a map, however, making one look coherient and filling it with source locations may be the problem...

I don't know if this has been seen yet, but here's a little information about the map...

http://hometown.aol.com/zacwilliam1/CyberAtlas.html

http://hometown.aol.com/zacwilliam1/CyberGeo.html

That has a list of the locations.

isn't it all part of the same page

Not from what I could tell.