Fourth race: Plants

i think it would be cool if the plant race passively produced units, sorta the same as buildings. You can feed minerals too the main plant(command center) which then uses the minerals to produce the building somewhere on the enriched soil. It can also produce seeds, which an be carried by the workers to the wanted area for the new base.

For unit production, every unit gets its own specific building(except workers) these buildings release small spores, that go to the ground, germinate, and produce the new unit. You have no control over the actual building of the units. the best you could hope for would be to feed minerals, and get a short increase in speed to the building.

it would make supplies harder, but what the hey.

 

Id make the story line like Gaia seeking revenge for all the planets laid waste in the inter racial war or something.

 

well it would be interesting, i must admit that its a good idea but i believe that Blizz would rather put first the Xel'naga as a single race first

 

well, i don't think blizzard will be taking our advice. still, some on the forums may eventually become a game designer( i hope its me) and maybe the ideas will stick.

 

but i hope some ideas concerning gameplay balances will be considered

 

Hopefully Blizz will invest some cash on desk research one someone inside Blizz will stumble across this web page =D.

Dreaming never hurt anyone...

 

I was thinking what super weapon best suit this plant race

 

About that planting units stuff, I fear its gonna be waaay to slow.

 

A good ultimate unit for the plants would be a sort of tentacle vine (like those things in Half-Life ) that starts to madly attack everybody in range. Its total damage output should be equal to that of a nuke, but it can be specially directed to discharge all its damage on a specific unit or units. I'm not sure whether it should have a timed life-span or it should have hitpoints like a unit and be able to be destroyed... Hmm...

 

Reminds me off the 'mean stalk' spell in Sacrifice.

 

the zerg nidus worms have a striking resemblance to these tentacle creatures from HL, a timed life sounds better than giving them hitpoints to prevent any possible abuse, i mean deploying many of these units around your base would certainly make any ground assault useless against you, given they have a fire power close to that of a nuke

 

One more problem I thought of just then.
Will a plant race have air units?
If so, how is it possible for them to fly?

 

Or its ultimate weapon could be an absurdly gargantuan treant. Crushed anything it walks on and air units get stuck in ints branches

 

LOL, perhaps some bird can come out of the tree top and deend the trend.

 

LOL.

 

windcatching membranes? Hollow parts filled with gas?

 

Well for one thing i am sure that their anti-air building will be a flycatcher.

 

Wraith pilot 1: Beginning our attack run on the enemy base... Firing Gemini missil-
Wraith pilot 2: WATCH OUT! It's a- a- a giant piece of flypaper?

 

LOLOLOLOL.

I dont mean that lol, i mean the flycatcher PLANT lol.

 

that was just like LOL × 200

well, maby big plants with mouth that can go take a bite of your ships, one like the one of little shp of horrors, but tall.