Use old buildings - energy, truck and recycle

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Use old buildings - energy, truck and recycle

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:arrow: ----- Gain back energy -----
First a question : If a truck demolish a building, do I then gain back energy (has not got that feeling when I'm playing the game, but maybe I missed it :oops:)? Recycling so to speak ?
If not, that's my first suggestion, to be able to recycle buildings.

:lecture: The idea about that is that as long that you have one small truck alive, no oil (energy), you still have the chance to beat the enemy (even if it is a loooong shoot :-) ). The game is already VERY GOOD to analyse that the game ends when the last factory AND the last truck/engineer dies Very good work with that.
But if you only have trucks/engineer and no oil, the game is lost anyway, but if you can recycle your buildings, then you got a chanse to come back, rebuild a outpost, build a factory, build an army....(maybe not, but it gives you hope :-) )

To make the chances better ... read on....

(maybe there are a way to use the truck to destroy enemy buildings, but I haven't got any nice ides about that. :idea: Maybe as a suicide bomber.)

:arrow: --- Energy from old buildings -------
My second suggestion is use of "old buildings". Today, the only thing to do with factories, skyscrapers, old houses and old scrap (like the busses that lies on the side) is to get the gun and shoot it until its gone. (sam with the trees)
By making it possible, with help of a truck, to make the buildings in to energy/money (or what you call it), the "old building" will have a use, not just stand in the way.

:arrow: --- Use old buildings -------
Even better if it was possible to use the "old buildings". Put radar on top of a skyscrapers in the urban map (to see longer, or to arm the buildings with guns. The "old" factorys, what ever was manufactured can maybe be to use agin, or at least u got a building to use as a wall against the enemy.

If it was possible to use the "old buildings" and to use scrap as walls or energy, and that both was harder to destroy", the urban maps will be more "city/street"-fights. A totally different type of war.
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If a truck demolish a building, do I then gain back energy
Yeah, some part of it.
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But this is just my own buildings!

Would be cool to be able to reuse scrap and old buildings. The urban maps can be so filld with scrap in the begining that you by that get the "dark" feeling of destruction ppl are looking for.
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Mr T wrote:But this is just my own buildings!

Would be cool to be able to reuse scrap and old buildings. The urban maps can be so filld with scrap in the begining that you by that get the "dark" feeling of destruction ppl are looking for.
I saw somewhere in the forum that somebody was talking about abandoned structures to capture...
My maps: http://forums.wz2100.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=9501
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Giani wrote:I saw somewhere in the forum that somebody was talking about abandoned structures to capture...
The same ide then. Do you have a link ?
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Mr T wrote:Would be cool to be able to reuse scrap and old buildings.
Reminds me of Supreme Commander, where you can recycle almost anything...
Need mass? Just recycle some trees, or rocks...