Spring RTS Engine

And this is archived with an engine change where units can walk into another to improve pathing but block shoting? Or where bombers which attack a distant target after the one at which they should drop their bomb let the bomb travel accross the map? :P None of this will happen in a properly written...

One idea is to let users rename only each 3 months. Or let a user only rename if he gets some supporters? The supporters verify that the name * contains no insults or can report -1 the action * it is clearly visible which was the old name * is not similar to a mod-name (provide a list) The verificat...

How about this Laser/Phaser/Railgun turret? (not only against air) The turret needs a lot of energy ( 0.xx*(m*60 +e) ), so that the main cost is covered by your fusions and e-stores. ~80% of avg aircraft cost for a kill. The 20% cost efficiency is because dmg should always have more weight than eco...

can't see - the page hates me :P My opinion is that the "solution" is to make is less scary for developers to come in and easier for them to find a place where they fit and feel valued. And this is archived with an engine change where units can walk into another to improve pathing but bloc...

How about give each user the choice to make information public, accessible to host, accessible to admins, private? Or give everybody options to send incorrect data? Nobody can hide IP over lobby settings But if someone knows the OS, sandboxing the lobby/spring in a way that it receives wrong data is...

You set up a very sophisticated ambush zone and suddenly the enemy just approaches from a different direction. Your plans are worthless and you quickly need to redeploy your troops in positions where they can deal with the new situation. Now it matters how quickly you can order those masses of unit...

I wonder why we not have swarms or swarm-controller units. Swarms are only displayed as "many", but are 1 unit, which is especially good for air/los. If you could provide fast (ground) transports for slow raiders (=swarm units), it would improve unit count / collision-handling /etc while b...

Good summary :)

@Jools, !smurfs is only available to admins on most hosts. Why is it blocked for some only if not accessible on all directly? * You can open a private chat to another host to bypass your host's restrictions... How about letting users join anonymously? * They will be seen as "NewPlayer[.SomeNum...

I'm not certain I'd change it either, but if I did change it, I'd introduce a unique and permanent identifier which is not visible in normal usage, to which I would bind names and - potentially - other tags such as clans. Seems like a reasonable solution, I see it in a lot of multi-service systems....

If we allow 2 different names and login names I fear we get the same problem as in - for example - NovaRaider. How do you want to invite or send message to a player called "¤5ŦA®¤ĦUŊŦ€®¤"? Or what do you do if someone has a "human name" which is equivalent to another person's lo...

I think upgrades, unit and player powers as well as an inventory system should be possible with this engine, isnt it? The engine supports lua gadgets where you can code everything you want. Some examples: Tech Annihilation has a nice upgrading system. Zero-K: * uses energy from power plants to over...

The game system should handle excess automatically After 5-20s of income are stored in your storage, the system should produce queued units. Each unit has a priority (priority in seconds of stored income required to drain ressources) Instead of our current tower-model, towers should be able to morph...

springlobby stores chat-logs too :)

A new alliance in the never ending war of houses, that is the lobbys, reveals its intent. Licho in open coalition - against the Zero-K lobby

Not against ZKL.

He wants a lobby other than SL and maybe NOTA for Linux.
He wants Linux users to be able to play ZK without 1 hour of work

It would be best to enable stop for all units.
Because if you want a mobile fusion to stop moving, what do you do?

Fight could be replaced with move for some units.
I am missing some sort of coordinated move where units arrive instead of start walking at the same time on some spot.

Does anybody know about Shellcore Command 2: Infection ? You basically build sim city with your ship. * The fact that you have only 1 Avatar and that it is very well micro-able (like a base in spring-games) is very attractive to sim-city players. You have to decide between speed or range, agility or...

just allow zip?

zk is a mess to configure even if i think it may be the easiest game to configure make sure game defaults are good (icon view distance comes to mind) If you could inherit basic units or separate generic weapon blueprints, it could help too... Or maybe put flight behavior into move defs ... Some pro...

Some innocent love dangerous people.

If you kill all dangerous, you also kill some part of innocent's hearths.