Driver and pilot xp and workshop repairing destroyed equipment.

[Hamstervile]

1)

Was thinking something along the lines of giving the planes and vehicles pilots and drivers. They would then be able to level up just like the soldiers. Like the pilots could learn to dodge lasers better or become better at shooting down certain types of space ships. Vehicle crews could get more action points when they become better trained or improved accuracy and so on.

There could even be some sort of survival chance for the pilot, where he could eject and then travel back to X.N. base.

Vehicle crews could climb out of destroyed units and then if they survived the mission return to fight another day. After a trip to the sick bay of course.

2)

As to the destroyed equipment, I was thinking that the destroyed hunter husk could be repaired at the base for a fraction of the cost of buying a new one. Thus giving the engineers something to do. Could also incorporate some sort of engineers improving hunter armour or sights or rifles to improve the gear. To give them something to do while research is under way. These improved rifles could be silencer, larger clips or larger calibre bullets for the assault rifles.

Comments and other ideas welcome. Thanks for taking the time to remake a classic and keeping the feel of it.

[Gorlom]

1) Leveling bonuses would cause some unwated balanceing issues. Chris has already considered it and decided against it. You might make him reconsider if you bring forth a good reason why it should be in the game. But right now it doesnt look likely.

The way everything is coded the pilots ARE the aircrafts (not like transformers just that the code treats them as such), there's no seperating them. So there is no chance to have pilots surviving their destroyed aircrafts.

2) I think it would be more expensive to repair the hunter then to buy a new one. Those things look pretty FUBAR after being destroyed.