[Idea] Kaiju Attack!

[CLU]

Summary:

As above, the idea I have is similar in a fashion to having giant aliens emerging from portals in the water to attack settlements. These Kaiju would be huge and pretty hard to beat, requiring an equally large response; Jaeger!

Simplistic Mod:

Kaiju Concept:

A Kaiju nest would spawn upon a nearby coastal settlement reaching a certain pollution level. At that time, the Nest would begin a countdown visible to the player after which it will spawn a Kaiju of the lowest Category. Upon spawning the Kaiju will make it's way directly towards the triggering zone. It moves slowly but it automatically destroys any structures it steps on.

Upon reaching the zone the immediate will happen:

1. The Kaiju will engage targets in the following order:
Jaeger>Tanks>Cars>Pollution Causing Buildings from Highest to Lowest>Storage Units

The Kaiju will ignore the player unless the player engages with a high damage weapon (rocket launcher)

If the Kaiju completes it's task it will roar, triggering any nearby aliens to stampede. After it roars it will either continue to another settlement area (small range) or return to the nest and go dormant. If the Kaiju is killed it will also roar triggering a stampede.

If the Kaiju is killed then the spawn timer decreases by 1/4 and spawns another one; up to three Kaijus of the same category at which point if all three are killed the nest resets the timer back to the original and upgrades the Kaiju produced.

Kaijus only stop spawning if the settlement is destroyed or the nest is destroyed.


Jaeger:

The Base Jaeger while modest in reference to the other Jaegers would be extremely expensive in terms of materials. Each part would need to be built individually in assembly machines then assembled together in a Jaeger Gantry.

Each Component would requires a varying amount of each of the six components:

Iron Plate (Armor)
Steel Plate (Structure)
Circuit Board (computers)
Copper Wire (circuitry)
Engine Units (movement)
Piping (Fuel)

In the Chest unit piping is replaced by storage tanks.

When completed and assembled in the gantry the Jaeger is now a MKI. It requires solid fuel and lubricant to operate and moves roughly at the SAME speed as a Kaiju. It can be upgraded with components similar to how armor is upgraded and initially will just punch any Kaiju sized targets or walk over any normal sized aliens. JAEGERS WOULD ALSO DESTROY ANYTHING THEY WALK ON REGARDLESS OF WHO IT BELONGS TO, making them a double edged sword.

They can be piloted in which case they operate similar to tanks or cars but can be automated like trains. Kaijus/Kaiju nests and Gantries show up in an interface similar to train stops and you can halt/ set targets/or direct towards. They cannot target regular nests automatically - they will needed to be piloted.

Combat:

Combat would be similar to how weapons work currently with attack speed, range. Some sprites would need to be done for for punching/moving/etc but I have no experience in that so..

Transport:

Because of their slow movement speed in order to respond to multiple threats when you only have one Jaeger (they should be VERY expensive to build) you can transport them in pieces via RAIL or whole via JAEGER HAULER. The HAULER would move only slightly faster than a walking Jaeger and be slightly wider but wouldn't destroy anything it crosses but would damage buildings/structures like cars do.

Upgrades:

Sky is the limit: different materials / parts could increase movement speed, grant abilities, weapons, power systems (fuel quality, run time etc)