Spring RTS Engine

What hunterw says about balance is true, however...

lurker wrote:Is it really worth respecing parts of balance that depend on units being difficult to control?

I'm inclined to agree with lurker here. My thought is to enable the change and then patch over the units that get substantially different.

Why did you even build a juno? xD i had few seconds of free time, just joking around so i felt like building it since it was near the super fusion reactor in buildlist. its actually good tactic on porcy maps... you make 20 of junos and then repeat on with the attack to every possible spot on map, s...

Wombat wrote:i dont want to read whole topic, so i dont know if it was mentioned, but could someone add camerars LOS range while marked? (like turrent) thx

That's a very good idea. Might be doable with the current LOS widget by just giving it a useless weapon

Blue_Falcon wrote:Why did you even build a juno? xD

Why not? If it kills one advanced radar it pays for itself

Main problem with arm t3 is by the time a game gets to this point there is usually quite a few LRPC on the map, which is where arm fail. Their t3 get sniped down much faster then core and generally fail at advancing and combating enemy t3 because of this. I'm not sure I believe this. LRPC do more b...

Trying out a practice game vs bots is a serious challenge to new users. For most users, their sole experience with AAI is to cause an instant crash during single player. They have no information about which AI is better, so they just pick the one at the top. Unless the mod ships a config file, they'...

If AAI's gonna crash unless the mod supports it (by writing a config file) then we should stop shipping AAI in the default install and start bundling it with mods.

The ARM has no super -heavy land units. That's my point. The T3 units are all *moderately* strong units, which are too weak to send alone. The CORE has two such units. The Krogoth and the Juggernaut can carve huge holes into the enemy's base alone. After all is said and done, I miss the Orcone, and...

These levels would correspond naturally to the 'particle saturation' (that is, current number of particles divided by maximum number of particles) at which they stop being spawned, e.g. Low = stop spawning if particlesSaturation > 0.5, Medium = stop spawning if particlesSaturation > 0.75, High = st...

So, you're microing some tanks. You tell them to target a particular enemy unit that you need killed first. But you also need to move them to the flank. The problem is, as soon as you tell them to move again, they forget their attack order and go back to default targeting. If you're fighting mixed u...

Xiozee wrote:Ok, thanks everyone for your help. I have one more question, can you pause spring against an AI, I have noticed after pressing Esc the game continues playing.

Beherith wrote:Press the pause button next to print screen and scroll lock.

He makes a good point -- escape should pause in single player.

Dragon45 wrote:DSD is pretty formulaic. There's maybe three strategies you have to learn to be passable. Watch a few PYB or PiNK replays and you're golden.

You've clearly never tried coordinating the quintouple commbomb

Pxtl wrote:So we're really talking about SpeedMetal, aren't we?

meh, there are quite a few non-speedmetal maps that overly high wind (eg Charlie in the Hills)

Anyway, am I crazy for thinking the Vulcan and Buzzsaw should come with enough energy storage to fire them for at least one second? (18K and 21K respectively) I think it is pretty "user hostile" for us to assume that people will know to build an advanced energy storage if it isn't in the ...

I mean like the volume of the sound becomes softer once you move away from the source with your camera. But I don't think it is a bug: both me and a friend have the problem while we have totally different computers. That sounds like a bug. The specific problem is that the "make sounds software...

Wombat learn the quote tag what a bs it is... Some caveats: * It doesn't consider mobility or crane time, so you'll need a bit of sense. * Nor does it consider hit points or build options or weapons what means ur calculations are worthless in game Except of course when mobility and hit points are re...

vulcan needs to be able to shoot down at an angle like the BB can... it gets kinda bad if it's on a steep hill

If you're metal stalling by definition you have excess build power. You should never reclaim an econ unit unless you are metal stalling, which means you can spare some of that excess build power to do the reclaiming. I don't see how you could credibly claim otherwise. I'm not going to argue with yo...

OMG!!!! Buzzsaw and Vulcan are not cost effective... Guys I personally remember noting that like 6 months ago in the BA thread while posting their stats and comparing them to BB. And I am sure others have posted about this much earlier... They are not effective for cost as the yare now,period BBs a...

The Fark is fast. If you're using it to assist L2 conbots, you're using it wrong - you should be using L1 conbots for that, or nanotowers if traffic is an issue. Hell, iirc they even chain. This is the thing - if it's for repair, Rectors are better. If it's for reclaim, Rectors are better. If it's ...