Two (no, make that ONE) wreckage bugs

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 06 Sep 2006, 18:30

Select a construction unit, hover your cursor over a tree. In OTA, this would change the unit's info display to show how much E/M a reclaimable object is worth... Can that be done without too much work?

Also, in OTA when a unit self-destructed this would make it not leave a wreck. Really skilled players would sometimes have a unit self-destruct just as it was nearing 0 health, for instance, depriving their enemy of resources. Or if defeat was assured, they would self-d for the same purpose in a FFA, to spite the person who killed them

(This might not be an issue after all, nevermind. First one still applies tho)

Acidd_UK · Post by **Acidd_UK** » 06 Sep 2006, 18:37

Caydr wrote:Also, in OTA when a unit self-destructed this would make it not leave a wreck. Really skilled players would sometimes have a unit self-destruct just as it was nearing 0 health, for instance, depriving their enemy of resources. Or if defeat was assured, they would self-d for the same purpose in a FFA, to spite the person who killed them

Isn't that kind of exploity? It seems so...

NOiZE · Post by **NOiZE** » 06 Sep 2006, 19:27

Caydr wrote:Also, in OTA when a unit self-destructed this would make it not leave a wreck. Really skilled players would sometimes have a unit self-destruct just as it was nearing 0 health, for instance, depriving their enemy of resources. Or if defeat was assured, they would self-d for the same purpose in a FFA, to spite the person who killed them

I thought that self D won't leave a wreck...

Nemo · Post by **Nemo** » 06 Sep 2006, 19:36

I've never seen a self D leave a wreck.

Also, I'm pretty sure that it shows stats for reclaimable objects already.

NOiZE · Post by **NOiZE** » 06 Sep 2006, 19:42

well if you self-d the AA Commanders you'll see a wreck

but apart from them i never see wrecks from self-Ding units...

FLOZi · Post by **FLOZi** » 06 Sep 2006, 19:49

In OTA atleast wreckage leaving was script controlled, for TACW I set it up to always leave a wreck, even with self-d.

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 06 Sep 2006, 20:21

FLOZi wrote:In OTA atleast wreckage leaving was script controlled, for TACW I set it up to always leave a wreck, even with self-d.

OOOOOooooooo! Maybe that's the problem, I'd never thought it was to do with the script. I'll nag my genius scripter about it... But even if this one's not valid, the first point still is.

Hellspawn · Post by **Hellspawn** » 06 Sep 2006, 20:57

Yeah only comm leaves corpse when self-d.

And you can already see how much e/m you can get from reclaiming.

NOiZE · Post by **NOiZE** » 06 Sep 2006, 21:00

Hellspawn wrote:And you can already see how much e/m you can get from reclaiming.

Not when you have a unit selected...

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 06 Sep 2006, 21:16

The corpsetype variable (second parameter of the Killed() function) determines the wreckage the unit leaves behind. Generally self-d causes a high severity (probably 100) so having anything with more than 99 severity return corpsetype 3 (no corpse according to a tutorial, I'd guess it's the third wreckage in the unit's wreckage chain which would usually be no wreckage at all) should prevent self-d wreckages. If you have death animations (i.e. sleep statements in the Killed() function) the function's return value is used instead of corpsetype.

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 06 Sep 2006, 21:24

Thanks KDR. I think I'm going to risk it all and edit the script myself. I'm going to be really careful, but anyone living in or around Ontario should go to their bomb shelters just in case.

10053r · Post by **10053r** » 07 Sep 2006, 01:52

Please do fix this Cadyr. Players have taken to self-ding their commanders to get the 14K metal wreckage. This is silly behavour in my opinion.

mehere101 · Post by **mehere101** » 07 Sep 2006, 04:07

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Yeah, please get rid of that exploit

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 07 Sep 2006, 04:15

done. Thanks to AF, it is also no longer possible to reclaim your commander either.

Acidd_UK · Post by **Acidd_UK** » 07 Sep 2006, 09:06

10053r wrote:Please do fix this Cadyr. Players have taken to self-ding their commanders to get the 14K metal wreckage. This is silly behavour in my opinion.

You can jusr as easily friendly fire yuor cmdr to death... This is not a solution

Hellspawn · Post by **Hellspawn** » 07 Sep 2006, 09:26

10053r wrote:Please do fix this Cadyr. Players have taken to self-ding their commanders to get the 14K metal wreckage. This is silly behavour in my opinion.

I call that punishment for playing comm continue

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But on more serious note, yeah I would agree at this getting fixed.

Foxomaniac · Post by **Foxomaniac** » 07 Sep 2006, 13:22

Spring : 1
Green Fielders : 0

WINRAR.
uh... yeah.

Still, there's a way around that - not pretty by any means but still do-able (in team games at least :p).

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