Karune speaks on massive unit transportation.

[Islandsnake]

Thor showing on the bottom is awesome.

Besides I could see tanks fitting inside. not a thor.

[SpiderBrigade]

Uh... what?
The SC1 dropship can carry 2 tanks or 4 goliaths...

He means, visually. Two tanks are a lot bigger than the dropship sprite.

So by extension, if the tank is actually smaller in comparison to the dropship...maybe the Thor is as well.

Personally, though, I do really like the underslung Thor concept. For the other races, if they need their huge units to be transportable for the campaign, they should do it like this: for the Ultralisk, the dropship simply lowers chains and lifts it. The Colossus would work the same way, but it would tuck it's legs up.

For the other races, I second the idea that the Prism would vibrate and emit some slight "charged up" energy animation to indicate it's carrying a Colossus. The Ultralisk would be suspended underneath an Overlord, or perhaps even grab onto the Overlord with it's mandibles.

[Pandonetho]

my point exactly.

"when clearly an SC1 dropship can't carry 2 tanks or 4 goliaths"
"yes it can"
"my point exactly"

lol what? That doesn't even make sense.

He means, visually. Two tanks are a lot bigger than the dropship sprite.

I see, I'm just not used to deciphering bad English.

[Nicol Bolas]

I second the idea that the Prism would vibrate and emit some slight "charged up" energy animation to indicate it's carrying a Colossus.

Why? Is a Phase Prism somehow restricted to carrying only one Colossus? If that's the case, it used to not be.

Remember: this is purely a visual mechanism for dealing with the visual discrepancy between Medivacs and Thors. If an Ultralisk can come through a Nydus without question, it can come out of an Overlord without question. And they're certainly not going to stop Ultralisks from going through the Nydus.

[supersonic]

"when clearly an SC1 dropship can't carry 2 tanks or 4 goliaths"
"yes it can"
"my point exactly"

lol what? That doesn't even make sense.



I see, I'm just not used to deciphering bad English.

Sorry? The English is just fine, I'm talking about the reason why they have a Thor actually under the Dropship (becasue it couldn't possibly visually fit in it), vs the fact that 2 tanks couldn't possibly visually fit in it. L2Problem solve and stay on topic.

There is 0 need for the Thor to be displayed under the Medivac, and if you say: "Well it's because it's so big!", well then you have already proven my point.

(And if you can't figure it out, the SC1 dropship didn't have an animation for units that obviously couldn't fit inside it, so why would the SC2 Dropships need it?... They don't...)

If they started messing with things because of realism the game would start to become unfun.

Blizzards main thought process: Gameplay > all

[DemolitionSquid]

Proportion in SC is irrelevant. As is proven by large units like BC's and Carriers being the size of a small group of Marines, and those Marines being able to kill the BC or Carrier.

The MedEvac, Prism, and Overlord should be able to carry one Thor, Ultra, or Colossus without any visual changes.

[supersonic]

Proportion in SC is irrelevant. As is proven by large units like BC's and Carriers being the size of a small group of Marines, and those Marines being able to kill the BC or Carrier.

The MedEvac, Prism, and Overlord should be able to carry one Thor, Ultra, or Colossus without any visual changes.

ty lol

Basically what I was trying to say..

[flabortast]

I think underslung unit transportation should be left for massive class ground units. So basically one for each race(Thor, Colossus, Ultralish)

[SpiderBrigade]

Why? Is a Phase Prism somehow restricted to carrying only one Colossus? If that's the case, it used to not be.

Well, mainly because I think it would be cool, not that it would be necessary.

So you're saying you could carry, what, 2 Colossus at once? That's pretty good if so.

[Pandonetho]

Well, in IIRC, in one of the Sonkie vs Yellow matches, Yellow had 2 colossi in a phase prism.

I really don't think it's necessary to limit the colossus to one per phase prism. After all, it just gets turned into data, and I don't think 1 Colossus can do much anyway (to an aware player, it'll probably devastate a noob player's mineral line).