Spring RTS Engine

no transports is first... or, loaded ones. Bombers are still a more immediate threat than transports since you may have ground defenses or units that can handle the airdropped units. Bombers could blow up your base and AA is the only thing that can stop them. AA should prefer what it does bonus dam...

You going to use MDF or what other kind of wood? We've found that a 1 to 1 mixture of wood glue to water (Dilute to a "chicken soup" consistency) brushed on then a coating of Zinsser primer will make painting MDF much easier.

Every form of AA should target bombers first, gunships second, transports third, since that's really the order of danger for your base.

I've noticed there's a severe lack of good BA gameplay videos on Youtube, or maybe I just can't find them. Does anyone have any good 720P (1280x720) or 480P (640x480) videos that haven't been resized? The shrinking process really kills video quality and makes the text unreadable. I'd love some good ...

It's because of the graphics mode in firefox. Somehow yours got changed, so it is using the embedded color profiles in the images which generally results in extreme fail. I thought Firefox 3.5 used the ICM color profiles by default. Anyway, if the background image has a busted color profile it shou...

http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/624/springwebsitebackground.th.png Does the Spring website look like that for anyone else? (Arrows added for emphasis on the problem) The background gradient breaks a little down the page and the color is wrong. I'm on Firefox 3.5.3 on XP with 32 bit color. It see...

Can you color code units with orders queued the same way you color code recently used units? Maybe some sort of variable transparency based on the amount of orders queued? Alternately, have the queue display when you select units. Also, it would be pretty cool to have idle construction units and fac...

The FPS management widget is supposed to automatically turn down the particle count as the game gets laggy. Maybe it should be turned on by default? Also, I think it would be better if it only had the ability to turn your graphics down from the settings you have specified, instead of being able to t...

CarRepairer wrote: I can easily make it, but only if you tell me that you actually own the glasses. I won't make it if no one has it.

I'd have to look for my pair to confirm I still have them and as it turns out the DVD / Blu-Ray set won't be out till February so never mind for now I guess.

Any possibility of a blue / orange mode that would work with the 3D glasses from last year's Chuck episode? Here's the RGB offsets http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/41290/98/ and I think they have a pair of glasses in the DVD / Blu-Ray set which is absolutely worth a purchase.

Hrmm. So, what's going on with all those WiFi cards, where they all have the same MAC address, then? Is it being assigned a fake MAC by the WiFi transmission station when the user's hardware initially signs on and creates a session? Sorry, I know that's a stupid question, if you're a network guy......

Just bear in mind, many laptops and fair number of PCs have network cards where the MAC is a generic string given to every network card in that model series. It's certainly not foolproof ID, and of course it can be spoofed. However, I suspect that 99% of the time, MAC + IP is enough to generate a v...

CarRepairer and I have settled our differences via PM on the lobby.

Yet again I have to tell el-matarife that Simpsons already did it but he likes to speak as though CA doesn't exist and he is the first to come up with ideas that will cause the sky to fall. El-Matarife: It was many months ago that it was done in CA and you see that the world continues to turn and n...

I built a Google spreadsheet that did the math a few years ago, I should go dust it off and make it available.

Also some gravity settings can make HLTs outrange T1 artillery which is a big balance change too.

Should you sticky the latest BA and BA Chicken threads? It seems like it would make this subforum easier to use.

I'm still in the "there should be a mod option to override minimum and maximum wind, tidal, gravity, and yield of all metal spots" camp, though I think it would be better if you could set those values to whatever you want not just norm them to the BA "Standard". I know some peopl...

I wanted to add the IPs (MAC is useless) to the infolog, but was defeated by bawwwing of random people concerned about "security". I don't see how MAC is useless since those are guaranteed unique unless someone changes them, and they're also long enough that they can be hashed for anonymi...

Also I think the IP and MAC address of players should be recorded in replays, probably as some sort of hash combining both. This would let the moderators easily track said users and ban them from the lobby.

The lobby server should pass the IP / names of the clients to the host so it can automatically assign people to slots as they connect. Why bother with something complex like unique IDs when IP addresses will work and be "unhackable"?