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As you know each month CNCNZ.com holds a Roundtable Discussion covering various news topics. We usually invite selected webmasters and senior staff from other C&C fan sites in the community to join the panel and have their say. Later this month we are going to change things up by having a "C&C Fan Only Edition" of the Roundtable. It will still cover important news subjects but rather than C&C fan site staff, the average everyday fans will have their say in our Roundtable feature. By average we mean the fans not running a C&C fan site or anything similar.

 

So how do you get on the panel? That's easy. All you have to do you is make sure your a registered member of the CNCNZ.com Forums (if your not, register now, it only takes a minute). Post a quick reply in this thread indicating your interested, we will then pick who we feel should be on the panel. The questions will be sent to you via a Private Message on our forums, hence the reason you need be a registered member.

 

So that's it. Our monthly Roundtable Discussion feature has proven to be a very successful feature for our site and the community. APOC, the C&C Community manager, enjoys the direct feedback he gets from them. So now is your chance to become a part of a feature usually reserved for C&C fan site staff.

That is a good idea.

[CnC-Fin 0]

As long as I don't need to leave my house, I'm in!

[rEdaSbLood 1]

i think i'm gonna say that i'm interested. i was afraid i wouldn't have time to participate, but that's just silly...

[Sonic 296]

Time shouldn't be a problem, the panel will have at least 7 days to get their answers back to me.

[Gben 20]

Well I've already been lucky to be in one, but if that doesn't invalidate me from this - count me in. I don't mind because I think it's good to hear from unknown people.

I think this is a really good idea Sonic... whether you can pull this off is another thing!

Good Luck!

[Nmenth 291]

I think I might be opinionated enough for something like this. You can include me if you’d like (and if you choose not to, I won’t cry).

[Saracen 16]

oh, I'd be glad to participate.

I've been a cnc fan since the 1900s.

 

You're also JohnWE's brother, and have been to a community summit... so I don't believe you'd qualify either.

[YkudzA 3]

Johnnyxp64, Hagren and YkudzA. Last time I checked you guys were all part of a fan site. This Roundtable is exclusively for fans not running a C&C fan site or anything similar.

discrimination ^^

voted for Alex07 because really want to hear his opinions

 

 

[Sonic 296]

I don't feel its any form of discrimination. We just want to include the every day fans who have no links or ties to fan sites or any thing along those lines.

[Louis EX 0]

Hmm, this'll be a good discussion me thinks.

[YkudzA 3]

I don't feel its any form of discrimination. We just want to include the every day fans who have no links or ties to fan sites or any thing along those lines.

That was joke, Sonic =P

[[NE]Fobby[GEN] 10]

I am interested.

 

Who am I? I am the founder of the Renegade X mod project; I've worked for C&C Reborn and Red Alert 2: Apocalypse Rising mods, and I'm a prominent member of the C&C community I have been in the community since '95, and I play a lot of C&C Renegade.

[Try_lee 0]

I have registered and replied to indicate that I would like a chance to participate in the fun fun fun.

 

It will be fun, right?

[TheGunrun 0]

If you need stuff to talk about here are some Ideas I came up with for red alert 3/future C&C titles.

 

*Re-implementation of the scale attribute within the coding. For example: In Zero Hour there was a value known as scale that I could modify for a unit in order to make this unit larger or smaller, here is a picture of an emperor tank that I gave a Scale=1.3 value to. (http: //screenshots.filesnetwork.com/27/files2/61106_7.jpg) In C&C3 I was no longer able to to this.

 

*A higher max camera height. Please, it would really be nice. Larger the area of command the greater amount of conquering that can take place.

 

*Bring Back Taunts They made the game more fun. Also, make this toggle-able in game, you know... griefing potential.

 

*REAL TIME ALLY'N I want to be able to request to become an ally in game and also be able to break these alliances. Also make these alliances have a forced "must stayed allied with" period that is determined prior to the alliance, lets say increments of 5 minutes.

 

*A Tribute System If I want to give my friends OR MY ENEMIES funds I should be able to. The reason why I want this applicable to my enemy is you know, bribe a hostile BACK STABBING ANNIHILATION. Just think of the fun. Example: Lets say there are four players on one map. Two players are in one alliance two are in another. Lets say Team 1 from alliance one asks Team 2 from alliance 2 to kill his ally in exchange for some funds. Team 2 from alliance 2 accepts and moves all his forces into Team 1 from alliance 2's base and then ends his alliance with him and destroys his entire base while his back was turned. Team 1 from alliance one gives team 2 from alliance 2 no money and both team 1 and team 2 from alliance one completely destroys team 2 from alliance two.

 

*Allied Power Grid Sharing Allies should be able to select whether or not they want to share power grids during a game and be able to toggle it on or off. This could lead to fun stuff and should also come with radar sharing.

 

*Allie Levels The amount of trust you have between you are your ally should be able to be toggle able during game. Example of my level system:

Level 1 Allie - Same as current C&C3

Level 2 Allie - Power Grid Sharing

Level 3 Allie - Radar Sharing

Level 4 Allie - Be able to share selected buildings and units (selected by player like using the repair cursor)

Level 5 Allie - SUPERFRIENDSHIP YOU SHARE EVERYTHING, YOU CAN BUILD OFF EACHOTHER'S MCV AND USE EACHOTHER'S UNITS.

 

*Unholy Alliance Bring back that mode in Red Alert 2 where you could start with all the MCVs

 

*Toggle- able EVA Voices Just have a bunch of people record EVA voice stuff and allow the player to select which voice they want prior to a game.

 

*Toggle-able Starting Units Just liked in Red Alert 2

 

*Toggle- able Destroyable Ore Nodes I just think this would be fun, but only if they rebuild themselves after a certain amount of time if the husk wasn't being attacked or if an engineer got into it. BTW I want this default on, lol.

 

*Map Generator Bring back what Tiberium Sun had, the map generator where you could specify what you wanted and it would randomly create a symmetrical map. I think this would be perfect for tournaments and help make games less predictable and add thousands of levels of fun. Example: Be able to select how much of the map you want to be water from 0-100, Select how many ore nodes you want each player to start out with, select the amount of foliage you want to see or night day or dusk or maybe how rocky the terrain is.

 

*Residual Damage Examples: A huge sinking ship would bring down smaller ships with it. A huge explosion from a vehicle will damage units and buildings close to it. A plane will do damage to whatever it crashes into. If someone sets fire to a building it should continue to burn unless engineer steps in. (Pretend he builds like fire walls..)

 

*Suicide Options Give units the ability to suicide into enemies. Examples: Get an aircraft carrier to head on ram into an enemy building killing itself but also doing massive damage to the enemy structure. Have tanks that will ram other vehicles killing itself but also doing massive damage to the enemy vehicle. Allow basic infantry to pull out a grenade and damage things close to it but at the cost of the infantry.

 

*Dynamic Interface Be able to remove certain parts of the interface but keep others. Example: Remove the Threat-o-meter but keep everything else. Remove the powers menu from the left side but keep everything else. Remove a combination of things.. etc.

 

*Dynamic Mapping Remember in Generals how if you blew up a dam it would flood parts of the map, well... Just like that! Example: Volcano that can be forcefully erupted by damaging it causing water parts of the map to become land that does damage to your units for a small amount of time until it cools. Have a hurricane map where it slowly floods the map.

 

*Toggle-able Graphical Hulk Longevity Be able to tell your game how many dead bodies can be on the map before they start disappearing, or perhaps change how long they stay on the map, or a combination of the two.

 

*In Lobby Bets System Right before the match, you can bet on who do you think will win or how long the match will be or perhaps how many of your men do you think will survive. Just for the hell of it really, nothing exp worthy here.

 

*Cheering Be able to make everyone on the map hear that your army is cheering and also be able to tell who is doing the cheering.

 

*Chess Conditions Be able to press a Good Game button that will pop up a little interface that will blend into the UI not making any kind of disruption for your enemy that will tell him that you have announced your victory and whether you would like to concede defeat now. This should have like a timer and be onetime use only to stop greifing.

 

*Mod SDK I want to see this out within a month of the release of the game, heck if possible I'd like to see it now.

 

*Node Tiers Have different kinds of ore(/gems) Nodes that dish out different amounts of cash per batch.

 

*Replay Options I would like to be able to view a replay of a game that includes what they are clicking on and what tabs they have opened at the time, I would also like to see this as a toggle-able option when selecting replays.

 

*Mini Games I would like to see some. Just imagine Tower Defense with C&C stuff.

 

*In-game MP3 Player I want to be able to play MP3s ingame.

 

*Toggle-able Weather Be able to change the weather of the map or select random.

 

*Toggle-able Time Be able to choose like night or day or something..

 

*Bigger Maps We really need bigger maps, personally.

 

*Special Powers that Damage UI temporarily Have Special powers that would disrupt their ability to give commands out during a battle. Example" Team 1 Uses Special Power "Jamming Field" on Team 2. Team 2's commander is only 50% successful in issuing commands to his units and screen goes black and white for 30 seconds.

 

*Hire Me I just turned 18 and would love to work on an RTS.

 

*Rebates/Rewards Program For Units Example: If you buy a train 30 conscripts you get the equivalent of 10% of how much you paid for them all back after the 30th one is finished training. This can apply for any class of unit at some ratio.

 

*Undeplete-able Ore Nodes Ore Nodes should never run out of funds. Unless there is tiers to ore nodes in which cares only the final tiers would have this.

 

*Reporting Feature in Lobby Be able to report players for doing nasty things in lobby.

 

*Toggle-able Swear Filter Be able to choose whether or not you want to see censor stars when people cuss.

 

 

*Water Flow Create maps which have water moving in current. Example: A unit would move slower one way in water and faster the opposite way.

 

*Toggle-Able Random Natural Disasters Example: Whirlpools, tornadoes, meteors.

 

*Real-Time Judgment Have a formula that will use a number of different variables to determine who is winning a game every 10 seconds in a game and being able to check this by clicking the players button. Or perhaps have it on the mini map or something.

 

*Multiplayer Game Saving I want to be able, during an online match, ask whoever you are playing with, whether or not to save the game and begin it again later. If yes, both players (or how ever many) get a file which is the game they have played up to that point until the next time the play. When they want to play again one of them will host a server and choose the saved game and his opponent could join. I also see this as an opportunity for someone else to come in and join as that player and start from where he left of from. This would be nice in case of disconnection or unsyncage. This would be helpful for testing bugs or even just see what you could have done differently.

 

*Vote Kick Collective System During a game you should be allowed to tag someone for abuse. After so many tags there should be a an admin online to observe a player secretly and determine if that person should be kicked from EA online/penalized.

 

*Have Featured Battles Add a new feature to the lobby called "Featured Battles" where a person's battle will be broadcasted live/almost live for viewing pleasure via a video feed and not through in-game systems so people may watch in high graphics and have something to watch while selecting or waiting for a game in the lobby. Also have the window be full screenable. This could also be streamed through the website if so inclined. At the end of each match the viewer should be able to select whether or not he wants to download the replay and is able to rate it.

 

*Randomized Themeing for Main Menu I want there to be more than just the soviet theme for the main menu. I want one for each of the factions. (heck these themes could be unlocked). I also think they should change randomly or perhaps select them in options or something. It would be neat seeing a Japanese theme full of hot school girls around some palace.

 

*In game aesthetic rewards The more games you play the more customizable your mcv should be in terms of it's looks. Maybe just a flag with a giant ten on it for the number of times you won that week. Perhaps fire works that go off if you are in the top ten ladder.

 

*Taunts I know I have said it before, but I really want to stress how much fun this would be. As long as their is a limit to the amount of taunts you could say in a minute or something.

 

*Ingame on screen audio toggles Be able to control who you hear and who hears you, on the fly.

 

*Offensive Flags If a player is being offensive/abusive in game or in a lobby we should be able to flag him. This would help moderated online play as well as tell players who should be avoided. These flags should vanish as time passes and also be cd key specific.

 

*Have EA Release the game on Steam Think about it, the steam friend's system would totally help make this game rock. Also think of the sales.

 

*Add a Timer during the Game This would be perfect for testing methods ingame to see what takes longer. Also would be nice for games where you ask your opponent not to rush in the first ten minutes.

 

*Complete time control Have a button on the screen that will allow you to send a game back in time and also forward. If you made a mistake and want to redo something you can, if you want to do this online the other players must agree. You could also use this to go forward in time online to have you economy boom.

 

*Real Time Random Mapping When you create a random map for the game you should be able to choose whether or not you want to use your actual environment to influence the map, I think having the ability to tell the game your zip code or coordinates and have it reference a weather station to determine the time of day and the weather of that area to create a random map would be cool.

 

*Remove the Empire's Air tab or give them something to fill it with.

[rEdaSbLood 1]

a lot of good examples, A LOT though lol.

[Nmenth 291]

If you need stuff to talk about here are some Ideas I came up with for red alert 3/future C&C titles.

 

Those sound more like suggestions for EA, not topics to discuss in a RoundTable.

[RenegadeNukes 0]

Hey Guys,

 

I'm RenegadeNukes and i'd like to be a part of the Roundtable discussion

 

Some of you will know me as the Gamreplays.org Tiberium SSS and have been a key player in the sections continual churning out of pre-release content - i've been a keen follower of the roundtable for as long as i can remember and would really appreciate it if i could be a part of this.

 

I've also been a player of C&C for the last 8 years and my favourite title of all time has been Renegade and Tiberian Sun: Firestorm (storyline and FUN only). Multiplayer wise i enjoyed TW the most.

 

Now i'm waiting for Tiberium and hoping it will be good.

[Dostayer 0]

I'm very interest to be on the Roundtable Discuss.

and i'm new...

[Chr1st14n 0]

If you need stuff to talk about here are some Ideas I came up with for red alert 3/future C&C titles.

WOW

You sure know how to think outside the box! Man! CnC would be like 100x better if all this was implemented! Do us all a favor and make designing CnC your job, plz

Although, I suggest you leave the balancing to the other people, lol

[rEdaSbLood 1]

the anticipation is killing me, when will we know who the chosen ones are?

[Sonic 296]

Sometime Monday. I'm busy over the coming weekend.

[sith_wampa 6]

Sometime Monday. I'm busy over the coming weekend.

Ahh.. you and your silly RL.

[Sonic 296]

The panel for the CNCNZ.com Roundtable Fan Only Edition has been chosen. I won't reveal who they are just yet. You won't find out who they are until we publish the Roundtable on the weekend of 27th/28th September.

[F15pilotX 4]

Aww damn, and I was about to sign up =/

 

Eh, maybe next time...

Edited September 14, 2008 by F15pilotX

[RenegadeNukes 0]

So have the panel been informed yet (keeping hope alive for me )

Edited September 17, 2008 by RenegadeNukes