Spring RTS Engine

They call Berthas and Intimidators "LRPC" for Long Range Plasma Cannon. I'm sure I've seen Vulcan / Buzzsaw referred to as VLRPCs.

Pxtl wrote:(although doubling the range would give it purpose).

Yeah... that makes a lot of sense. Doesn't the "V" in VLRPC come from "very", anyway? They're so expensive anyway, so shouldn't those fuckers be able to kill ANYTHING that doesn't have a cliff to hide behind?

CarRepairer wrote:Someone should try making a superspeedmetalx2 with twice the metal as regular superspeedmetal so you can build stuff faster. The game would play really fast and you can have big battles.

YES! Now that's the kind of forward-thinking we need! Oh, woe that I did not think of this myself...

OK, I tried it a few times, it didn't work at all. Bad idea. SSM is truly and irreversibly the domain of people who don't have time to think about such silly things as "strategy". Somebody make this thread go away now...

I know... am I trying to salvage an unsalvageable thing?

I have an idea. This might suck, but I want to try it: what if we play maps like superspeedmetal with a really really low max unit count? Like 20? Yeah, it kind of defeats the purpose of SSM. But it could be interesting, tactically... since you can only build units when old ones die, you need to bui...

Vulcan and Buzzsaw need a bigger death explosion, like something 3x the core nuke blast that wipes out the entire half of a map. If somebody seriously wasted enough time to build a vulcan, they deserve to die and their team with right along with them. Actually not a bad idea... what if they were ch...

REVENGE wrote:Do you have enough energy production / storage? Is the aiming blocked?

Thanks. I'm kinda noob and I always forget E storage.

Sorry all, I thought I'd found a bug. *slinks away*

the VLRPCs for both sides don't seem to fire. anybody else have this problem?

I had the same problem with AreaMex...

That's a start, but I was thinking more like plain-text descriptions, when to use each unit, etc.

I'd be happy to put a page together if somebody wants to help.

Is there a complete guide to all the units in BA? Manored's guide here is cut off about halfway down.

in Windows, too: just associate *.sdf with spring.exe

Wombat wrote:geez dude find some friends and stop looking for stupid bugs, who is checking these 2 anyway :/

Bugs is bugs. I'm glad people are out there looking, because that's how we make Spring more perfect.

Find some friends and stop being a dick to people who are trying to help.

Holy shit that worked. I've been trying to do that for months. Someone make this a sticky - I think this problem is widespread.

Looks like a lot of people have this. What operating system is everyone using? I'm running Vista (which I hate), and I'm starting to suspect that some of its more asinine security features are giving me this grief.

EDIT: Problem solved! http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=20124

you use direct unit control in multiplayer? sounds suicidal.

snipe wrote:idem for problem:

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What language is this?


If Caydr and I have this problem, how many others might? Somebody ought to take a look at this.

This is for a different game but the same error: [GAME] { HostIP=localhost; HostPort=8452; IsHost=1; MyPlayerName=Player; ModHash=1418341361; MapHash=1138014307; Mapname=SpeedMetal.smf; GameType=Balanced Annihilation V7.00; DemoFile=C:\OpenGames\Spring\demos\local_20090823_141937_SpeedMetal_0.80.2.s...

nothing?