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[Man of Paper]

Welcome to the Nextgen Consortium!
Core Thread

You've seen the Core thread. It's time to define your team! Feel free to ask questions here or in the Discord (linked in the Core Thread).

[Powder Miner]

As much as I’d love to do some New Conglomerate shit, the name “Nextgen Consortium” makes me think of some sort of sleek, feature-packed next-gen tech group. I’d be thinking ballistics, snipers, fast vehicles with all sorts of bits and gadgets — stuff with a nominal basis in conventional design but made n e x t g e n.

Or, more succinctly: F-35 but not shitty

[m1895]

Prefered weapon type: Energy
Primary infantry arms focus: balanced between rate of fire, firepower, and accuracy at range with a focus on specialized attachments
primary vehicle focus: fast hard-hitting vehicles with active camouflage systems

I happen to prefer energy weapons.

[Powder Miner]

You know, energy weapons would help differentiate Nextgen from the Gaians in GalactiRace. The infantry and vehicle focuses though I worry maybe combine too many elements to stand out well, though I do like the specialized attachments concept.

[Jilladilla]

Hmm... Building off the 'specialized attachments' bit.....

How modular do you think we can go?
Like, start with a base module that on its own can function as a sidearm; but if you add certain components to it it's now an assault rifle; or a shotgun with others; a sniper; heavy energy (we haven't quite decided what just yet of course) cannon, or mix and match to fill out some oddball role!

Neat idea or one that should sit back a bit?

[Powder Miner]

I think I would want to step things back a bit from that because going JUST attachments is kind of just going to limit our potential later on when we'd like to have multiple specialized armory pieces -- I would, however, want to create universal attachments/modules and then kind of create central frames for different roles that the universal attachments then play with -- basically, think hulls from GalactiRace, but it's guns.

[m1895]

my idea was you would have main rifle equivalent, and then you would have something like disruptor/melta gun as a specialized attachment for it.

(I was thinking of using a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsed_energy_projectile for our main weapon. focusing more on the explosive power rather than pain compliance. what are your thoughts on it?)

[Powder Miner]

I like the idea of having multiple attachments that can vastly customize a gun I think. Pulsed energy projectiles could work.

[Rockeater]

Nothing suspicious

[Twinwolf]

I hope I'm not too late to have any impact on our choices.

I can basically agree with energy weapon focus. If we wanted normal guns, we could design for a different arms race (although as I read it, it's a focus, not a total thing, so if we want to pull out surprise ballistics it's a possibility).

For the infantry equipment focus, I like the idea of powerful if slow infantry weaponry thought of in the core. I'm actually not sure "attachments" is broad enough to be used as a focus? We could definitely still have it considered in our designs though.

For vehicles, we're the Nextgen consortium. Experimental tech focus seems right in line with that - active camo, or linked firing between vehicles, or MECHS.

Preferred weapon type: Energy
Primary infantry focus: High-power weaponry
Primary vehicle focus: Nontraditional and experimental designs.

[Powder Miner]

The example I gave is of doing things like how hull works in GalactiRace — modular design, which I think gives a pretty distinct but broad core. I think that’s going to be the one thing I really push for. I definitely prefer it to high-power weaponry, which seems kind of non-standout in comparison, to be frank.

Here’s my set:

Preferred weapon type: Energy
Primary infantry focus: Modular weaponry
Primary vehicle focus: Also modular, but high-speed.

[Twinwolf]

Honestly, whatever we end up doing, I do not want both our weapons and our vehicles to have the same focus. I feel like that would get a bit same-y after a while. Maybe modular infantry weaponry, and the experimental tech on vehicles?

Another infantry idea, besides "high power" and "modular", would be something like weird effects. One thing for a sniper rifle to hit you, it's another for it to hit you and then turn you into a lightning rod for grenades. It's one thing for the shotgun to have a lot of shot, it's another for those shots to bounce all over the place. I think there's a lot of variety that could come from that.

[Jilladilla]

An idea for our vehicle focus: Extreme long range. Like, artillery long range. Tank sized laser-snipers; plasma blobs arcing over the the horizon; aircraft sniping ground vehicles from high altitude. That sort of stuff.

[Twinwolf]

We should put up a votebox since it was asked.

Preferred Weapon Type:
Ballistic:
Energy (1): Twinwolf

Primary Infantry Focus:
Balanced:
Experimental:
Modular:
Hard-Hitting (1): Twinwolf

Primary Vehicle Focus
Artillery
Fast, stealthy:
Experimental (1): Twinwolf
Modular

[Powder Miner]

Preferred Weapon Type:
Ballistic:
Energy (2): Twinwolf, Powder Miner

Primary Infantry Focus:
Balanced:
Experimental:
Modular (1): Powder Miner
Hard-Hitting (1): Twinwolf

Primary Vehicle Focus
Artillery
Fast, stealthy:
Experimental (1): Twinwolf
Modular:
Support (1): Powder Miner