The initial warring of the factions would likely be purely about survival rather than any grander scheme, then as they overcome food and disease issues they start to think about the bigger picture and factions merge to create stronger groups with clearer objectives.
I certainly like the idea of finding stuff to basically survive in the early stages of cam0. If nothing else it gives a unique opportunity to make dog food a significant component within an RTS warfare game!
Is there perhaps a story line that would take the scavs out of survivor mode, in to a basic form of society that has farms and medical supplies, and then becoming more militarised to fend of threats from increasingly strong enemies, with the eventually making the move to military bases and proper warfare?
It would link up with what's written in the official guide:
The Collapse came fast and hard. Following a technical error in the satellite
defense system, nuclear warheads were fired at Washington, Beijing and Moscow.
Minutes later, ground based sites fired in response to the launch. Millions died
as nuclear firestorms wiped out the world’s cities. Billions more died as plagues
and epidemics swept away what remained of civilization. Less than a million
people survived the Collapse. Earth broke into hundreds of small scavenger
bands battling each other for the remnants of the former civilization. Only a few
had the vision to attempt to rebuild a new world from the ashes.
The player (referred to as ”the Commander”) is part of a group of survivors that seeks
shelter in a military base in the Rocky Mountains. They emerge from the base with the goal
of rebuilding the world, adopting the name ”The Pro ject”.
I feel that cam0 needs to explain why alpha team has gone looking for military artefacts in cam1, and perhaps give some indication as to what beta and gamma teams were sent off to do - I'm not aware of anything that explains what their missions were supposed to be. Beta didn't expand much - maybe their mission was to focus on civilian stuff, eg. building of a new city (hence them setting up near a ruined city) but then they were ambushed by the enemy (something they were not fully prepared for)? As for Gamma, I have no idea what their mission would have been or what they've been doing since setting off to their initial base?
These questions and more could be answered by cam0.
"Dedicated to discovering Warzone artefacts, and sharing them freely for the benefit of the community."
-- https://warzone.atlassian.net/wiki/display/GO
I'll gladly take passenger seat on this one, and stick to scripting it up using WZScript (and we can move to .js afterwards) and some mapping.