Players shouldn't "die" until they resign

[YokoZar]

or their entire team dies.

This is probably an engine bug, but it can be worked around with LUA.

Basically I hate the fact that it is sometimes really important to give a teammate a worthless unit so he doesn't die. Especially in large games, the odds of being able to still win even after a player has lost a base are nonzero. An extra player is helpful, as even without a base he can still help you micro later when you have units to give. Just today I played a game on TheRock where my ally south of the river was almost killed but once I gave him my ships to play with he was able to micro them enough to kill a substantial amount of enemy sea power.

[lurker]

Change from com continues to forever, done.

[YokoZar]

The lobby UI could use some improvements here. We have "Game end Mode" and "Game end Condition" as separate pull downs.

Perhaps Game end condition = infinite should be default here (and on autohosts)

[Evil4Zerggin]

You can already control it via modoption:

namespace GameMode
{
const int ComContinue = 0;
const int ComEnd = 1;
const int Lineage = 2;
const int OpenEnd = 3;
};

file.GetDef(gameMode, "0", "GAME\\ModOptions\\GameMode");

[YokoZar]

You can already control it via modoption:

namespace GameMode
{
const int ComContinue = 0;
const int ComEnd = 1;
const int Lineage = 2;
const int OpenEnd = 3;
};

file.GetDef(gameMode, "0", "GAME\\ModOptions\\GameMode");

Should be default, really

[zwzsg]

Actually, it is default, read from springcontent.sdz.

But many mods include their own EngineOptions.lua overriding the default. Your mission is now to bug each and every mod maintainer to update their EngineOptions.lua .

[YokoZar]

Actually, it is default, read from springcontent.sdz.

But many mods include their own EngineOptions.lua overriding the default. Your mission is now to bug each and every mod maintainer to update their EngineOptions.lua .

BA doesn't have an EngineOptions.lua though. Something else is going on.

[zwzsg]

BA V6.81 has the Infinite Game end condition.