Balanced Annihilation V6.95

[Wombat]

no, i mean sea is porc mainly coz of torp launcher (in t1)

[123vtemp]

BA balance fails.

If you want balance go elsewhere.

Same for game play.

[Wombat]

go play tetris ful, its balanced

[Pxtl]

no, i mean sea is porc mainly coz of torp launcher (in t1)

You mean the same torp launcher that can be raped by a single hover? Do they even outrange Destroyers? I don't remember.

[eyu100]

no, i mean sea is porc mainly coz of torp launcher (in t1)

You mean the same torp launcher that can be raped by a single hover? Do they even outrange Destroyers? I don't remember.

No, destroyers outrange them. Unfortunately for sea players, destroyers are the only cost-effective way to kill them (a hover platform would be expensive).

[Pxtl]

How the hell is that "unfortunate"? At level 1, destroyers are the de-facto standard combat unit unless you're fighting hovers. They can destroy torp launchers with impunity.

And at 300 metal each, torps are a pricey investment for an immobile defense with such weaknesses.

[eyu100]

How the hell is that "unfortunate"? At level 1, destroyers are the de-facto standard combat unit unless you're fighting hovers. They can destroy torp launchers with impunity.

And at 300 metal each, torps are a pricey investment for an immobile defense with such weaknesses.

Torp launchers cost less than HLT's and are harder to rush (because sea units are more expensive), making them extremely effective against anything but destroyers and hovers. Each (large) sea on Small Supreme Battlefield rarely has more than 4 players, and even with two players a few torp launchers are built. Compare this to small games on large land maps, where HLT's are hardly ever built. Part of this is because there is no LLT equivalent for sea, but it is also because torp launchers are good defenses. Even using destroyers to attack torps in the early game is risky. If you make a mistake, your destroyer can take a lot of damage and then get killed by subs, leaving the enemy with a lot of metal. It also slows your expansion a lot. This is especially important on SSB, probably the most played sea map, which has a lot of sea mex spots. (I'm not saying that sea is too porcy - I think it is easier to kill people in sea than on land. I'm just saying that torp launchers are quite powerful.)

[Pxtl]

I agree they're quite powerful... I just think they're the correct magnitude of "quite powerful" and not OP in any way. Torp launcher is the LLT of the sea.

Personally, if I were doing a TA-style mod, I'd take it further and buff the cannons while nerfing the DCs of the destroyer (and cutting the range of the TL) - this would make subs king of the open water, but force the player to fall back on destroyers wherever defenses occur. And make torp launchers (but not subs) hit hovertanks.

Fortunatley for all who don't want to experience such gameplay, I'm not doing anything like that.

[moriarty]

Hi,
I've tried spring with this mod (6.95), but whenever it gets to 0 on the count-down at the start of a new game, the game crashes out. Doesn't seem to matter what map or how many AI's, always happens.
Any ideas why?

See also, this thread: http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=19474

[YokoZar]

Once you get past early t1, the sea game gets much more lively - hovers, cruisers, battleships, pelicans, gimps, subs, real torpedo launchers -- these are fun units to battle with, but it's incredibly rare to have t2 ship to ship.

REAL TORPEDO LAUNCHERS?! :0

Ok so the t1 torpedo launcher is good enough to own scout boats and corvettes but it's pretty expensive

[TheFatController]

Just so everyone knows as I haven't been in the lobby much the last week or two, partly busy with RL stuff and partly waiting for the resurrect bug to be fixed in the engine before any new BA release goes ahead..

[Jazcash]

I know there's been a couple load screen submissions for future releases, but I've been wondering this for awhile now.

Would there be any way to make load screens for many resolutions and then Spring loads the right resolution image according to your resolution input in the Spring Settings?

This would be epic cause atm, a lot of load screens look awesome on the right resolution and ugly on others.

[hunterw]

I know there's been a couple load screen submissions for future releases, but I've been wondering this for awhile now.

Would there be any way to make load screens for many resolutions and then Spring loads the right resolution image according to your resolution input in the Spring Settings?

This would be epic cause atm, a lot of load screens look awesome on the right resolution and ugly on others.

probably, but then this makes the mod way bigger in filesize and fuck that. best to just use high resolution ones and stretch them smaller.

afaik the only thing we are waiting on is a BA logo to overlay on all my scrennys

[CCBlackmilk]

For the most part, the two major problems need to be fixed:

Resurrection Bug (HATE IT because a com is worthless thereafter, and, if you don't pay attention it will disappear eventually.)

Sea Balance (this is more long-term but, imo lots of issues need to be fixed. Range does not mean that a cons should have an incredibly slow turn rate which also includes an incredibly slow unpack/repack time.

[Jazcash]

New exploit discovered: You can nap moving coms. You probably know about this already. If not, PM me.

[1v0ry_k1ng]

any chance of that pw/ak e-cost/bt adjustment someday?

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=19436

[Wombat]

decrease pw m cost and aks e cost thats all D: (tho i vote 1 that they are balanced)

[eyu100]

New exploit discovered: You can nap moving coms. You probably know about this already. If not, PM me.

It's apparently been possible since OTA. It would probably (with my limited understanding of the engine) be hard to fix without an engine change since whether napping is successful or not depends only on the position of the transport and the com, and not on the com's movement.

[ChaosMonkey]

New exploit discovered: You can nap moving coms. You probably know about this already. If not, PM me.

It's apparently been possible since OTA. It would probably (with my limited understanding of the engine) be hard to fix without an engine change since whether napping is successful or not depends only on the position of the transport and the com, and not on the com's movement.

no it depends on if u have the widget or not sillyface

[TheFatController]

A fix should be possible in Lua so expect a new version soon with it patched.