Among the things GC did right, I think special effects (and by this I mean map specific things, like the music in the cantinas, and the sarlac...) was defently among them. But on the Bf2 engine I think some things might have even more promise. For instance the GC sarlac (thats the thing with tentacles in the pit on tatooine right?) was unmoving and dull. In Bf2 they have those neat animated objects, like the radar dish, that move on their own accord. Any chance we could see a sarlac with arms that when they strike either a person or viechle sends them flying? And a snapping beak maybe? Or how about letting the victim survive the fall into the sarlac's stomach, only to be trapped there and have his health drained slowly by the digestive juices? He could even do a short little exploration of the place, seeing random bodies and maybe fett, before they finally die. Every fan's dream. Lol. Things like that are neat. Or maybe on some map a cave with some kinda animal (rancor?) that stays there and attacks whatever goes near it? Or maybe on hoth, for example, when the rebels and imps are fighting in the tunnels and caves at the base they'd have to be careful to avoid places where they might fall into dens of those things that attacked luke there. I think something like that is possible, sense the birds in bf2 seem to know when u come near them.

Lastly, is it possible to have a infantry map, lets say a dense city where a rebbellion has uprisen with civilian forces, that is being pounded by bombers while the map goes on? Like the imps didn't have time to pull out their troops before they begun sending down TIE bombers to pound the city randomly. There could be tie bomber viechles that have scripted flight patterns. They basically just dive, release a bunch of charges, and climb out of site. This could happen in random places, which would give the map a very intense feel as both the rebel infantry and imperial overlords mix it up in the close quarters of the city, while bombs rain down upon their heads indescriminetly. The city could be burning too, and would be even better at dusk. Effects like this really set the mood, and add to the wow factor I think. At least thats how it is for me.

Do I dare revive a dead thread? Yes. But only cause its pertinent to the current situation (the 2142 jump). Otherwise I wouldn't have the courage.

Anyways, take a second to reread this buetifal post, if you please. Alot of these things would have been very, very cool. But 2142, I believe, could up the coolness factor here, a very large amount. Lemme start with the Sarlacc pit.
A moving, seemingly alive sarlacc pit sounds great. An actual self aware (and by this I mean ai controlled, obviously) sounds much cooler. 2142 has those neat auto turrets, and those floating auto turrets. Could the same method be used to breath life into the sarlacc? The sarlacc could have several 'weapons'. Against enemys that are farther off, like vehicles (I'm thinking desert skiffs floating over it), the sarlacc could swing a tentacle at it, sending it flying. But for closer enemys, say enemys in similar positions to lando (sliding down the pit's side) it might do like, this spinny attack with it's tentacles to knock enemys down it's gullet, seeing as it would probally be hard to have it actually grab onto people. Unless you can do that. That would be cool...
But theres more. Once consumed, the player would slide into the sarlacc's cavernous stomach like I described above. But instead of a dingy cave like thing, why not make the actual stomach walls move as if the thing was actually trying to digest you, by churning you up.
As for the tie bombings on an infantry city map, this ai could be great, seeing as teh bombers might actually have a slight guiding ability, to do it's best to hit the enemys instead of the freindlys. I still really like this as a map idea...
Now that teh rules have changed (2142ish) there must be a hundred really cool things that could be done with the ai. Any ideas there?

would be a good map. imps invading a base and rebels ave to defend the golum transports and let them escape.. imps have to get to base and blow up the transports within a time limit.. cant see why it wouldnt work

so, well not that far (as far as I'm aware)

(his model rocked btw)

it is a tough map towork on, EVERYTHING we are doing is trying to keep specs down and not kill peoples PC's.. Blitz GD Ulv and canadians are working there buts off making everything fit in and look immense!

Whenever I make a model, I always try to stay well bellow the tri-count limits to further reduce processing demands.  With the skill of the rest of this mod team, I believe we will be able to deliver a wonderful mod, and hopefully lag free.

As for special effects on Endor, I'm pretty sure Golden Dragon has some interesting stuff up his sleave