underwater movements

[Elmak]

A powersink or building that could make your battlemine submerge.
it costs x amount of resources to submerge and y amount to surface.
movement underwater is same as surface.
you cannot attack while underwater or be attacked
you cannot do trades
no production happens
you lose 1 hull point if you are underwater when production happens

This is useful to move out of a clump of land (especially the mainland where there are lots of fallout)

[Rasteroid]

Kind of unclear how this would be so useful.. you'd have to do everything in one turn or lose hull. Can other people move on top of you? When you say "movement under water is same as surface", do you mean same cost? If so, why bother? If not, how to rationalize underwater movement being free? What if you can't afford to resurface, instant death right?

[Elmak]

Only reason to move underwater is if you want to move out of the mainland to open waters. Or maybe to avoid an attack.

But you do have a good point about the movement cost. So maybe by moving underwater, movement cost is free but you only get x amount of movement points per turn (non commulative)

Also for losing the hull point if you are underwater, it would deter someone from staying underwater too long.. maybe not hull point but you lose x amount of random buildings ? then if you dont have anymore buildings you start losing hull points ?

[Rycchus]

Or maybe you lose the hull or buildings after a certain number or cycles, rather than at the first production?

[vilhazarog]

Um, so we're all on floating islands? There's water underneath us? Submerging should be easy then, just drill till you hit water, then sink!

[halkeye]

How about getting your land equipped with jump jets so you could jump over a land (like checkers), but if the person you were about to jump over has a radar and icbm, they could auto-hit you so you'd come back down to the ground and losing the ability to try again till new jets are built?

[Lynx Shaman]

That's not a bad idea. I like the idea of having some way to move your tile out of a landlocked space. It's irritated to be Scrambled into a spot where you're surrounded by idles and members of other factions that would rather keep you close (and on a tile made of radioactive dust).

[xade]

isn't it called battlemines? shouldn't you shoot your way out? It's not swimmingundereveryonemines, or jumpingmines...

Though jumpingmines does sound like an entertaining 2d action scroller...

[Rycchus]

Currently, you can't shoot your way out - at least, not without losing your land.
I like the push-people-back idea that was suggested somewhere.