{"id":591,"date":"2012-07-25T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/?p=591"},"modified":"2012-07-25T11:00:07","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T17:00:07","slug":"dev-question-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/?p=591","title":{"rendered":"Dev Question #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Wednesday, which means the MechWarrior Tactics team has brought us this weeks &#8220;Devs ask you&#8221; question:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>What is your favourite type of map theme? (Ex. Water, jungle, arctic, etc. )<\/li>\n<li>What would you consider to be important for strategic play and what do you find annoying? (Ex. Cover, elevation, size, etc.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I think my favorite &#8220;Theme&#8221; for a map, would have to be a mountain region.. lots of hills, valleys, small caves, etc.. to hide behind, use for cover, etc.<\/p>\n<p>For the second part, I&#8217;d go with environmental effects&#8230; if I&#8217;m playing on a desert map, I&#8217;d expect all my &#8216;Mechs to be running at +1 heat, Arctic map? -1 Heat, etc..etc..<\/p>\n<p>For an annoyance on maps.. small ones, when I played TableTop, we never used just one map.. there was always 3 or 4 stuck together to give us more maneuvering room.. I&#8217;d expect the same from an online &#8216;Mech game. \u00c2\u00a0But, they can&#8217;t be like MechWarrior 4 did.. and be huge open fields with no terrain to break them up.. then you&#8217;re just slinging Gauss rifles across the map, without ever seeing the opponent.<\/p>\n<p>How would you answer? \u00c2\u00a0Comment, or head on over to the official <a href=\"http:\/\/mwtactics.com\/forums\/index.php?\/topic\/332-725-dev-question-the-devs-want-to-hear-from-you\/\" target=\"_blank\">thread<\/a> and chime in!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Wednesday, which means the MechWarrior Tactics team has brought us this weeks &#8220;Devs ask you&#8221; question: What is your favourite type of map theme? (Ex. Water, jungle, arctic, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/?p=591\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BPLE-9x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}