Great idea.
The reason why crawling bombs would be hard to use is that they're a highly specialized level 2 kbot.
I really like that idea though. Can it just be made so that all level 1 cons can build the lemming?
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As long as you build a solar first you're pretty well-set... building a mex or god forbid 2 mexxes first will hurt you unless you're playing on a lame-ass high wind map.
Build one radar tower for every 3 LLTs... and always have at least 3 LLTs in positions surrounding your central base area to prevent a flea or something from rushing past your defenses and ruining your economy. Don't underestimate the value of radar towers... I'm not the greatest player, but I know from experience that it's usually wiser to build a radar tower THEN start on your LLTs than to build the LLTs then the radar. Early detection is everything, and the long LoS of radar towers provide gives a wise defender a powerful advantage.
Build one radar tower for every 3 LLTs... and always have at least 3 LLTs in positions surrounding your central base area to prevent a flea or something from rushing past your defenses and ruining your economy. Don't underestimate the value of radar towers... I'm not the greatest player, but I know from experience that it's usually wiser to build a radar tower THEN start on your LLTs than to build the LLTs then the radar. Early detection is everything, and the long LoS of radar towers provide gives a wise defender a powerful advantage.
Nothing really wrong i can see with new AA ver inr elation to new SPring ver.
However, I keep finding myself in situations where i am forced to build LLTs or HLTs and know that an HLLT could have done the job a lot better
With Spring's "your-units-cant-shoot-through-each-other" realism, putting up a bunch of LLTs means that each LLT is a lot less effective because if some units get trhough the side, suddenly your defense power is cut in half for wqhat can be brought to bear on that raider at any given point in time. HLLTs got around this problem.
Also I constantly find myself in situations where I want the Core FLamer (L2 flame tower) back. With no Flamer, Core has no med-low cost L2 antiswarm buildable by ANY adv unit. I've been forced to resort to Vipers and Toaseters and the occasional DDM but they just dont cut compared to what the FLamer could do
Also: Bladewings need their HP bumped up a wee bit; not necesarily doubled back to their original strength, but they get totally chewed up by lasers in any amont, meaning you cant use them for paralyzing LLTs like you used to be able to
ONE MORE THING!
I think something that could really add value and coolness to the amph lab are underwater amphibous transports (I know that AMD had the Mantis for arm and a Core counter for it) and they had a good deal of use because they could go UNDER the water, not just over like the hover transports do. It's probably the only thing missing from the Amph Complex' strike capability.
I know I gripe a lot but AA is so damn sweet. I jsut want to see it become (what I think) is even better :D
However, I keep finding myself in situations where i am forced to build LLTs or HLTs and know that an HLLT could have done the job a lot better
With Spring's "your-units-cant-shoot-through-each-other" realism, putting up a bunch of LLTs means that each LLT is a lot less effective because if some units get trhough the side, suddenly your defense power is cut in half for wqhat can be brought to bear on that raider at any given point in time. HLLTs got around this problem.
Also I constantly find myself in situations where I want the Core FLamer (L2 flame tower) back. With no Flamer, Core has no med-low cost L2 antiswarm buildable by ANY adv unit. I've been forced to resort to Vipers and Toaseters and the occasional DDM but they just dont cut compared to what the FLamer could do
Also: Bladewings need their HP bumped up a wee bit; not necesarily doubled back to their original strength, but they get totally chewed up by lasers in any amont, meaning you cant use them for paralyzing LLTs like you used to be able to
ONE MORE THING!
I think something that could really add value and coolness to the amph lab are underwater amphibous transports (I know that AMD had the Mantis for arm and a Core counter for it) and they had a good deal of use because they could go UNDER the water, not just over like the hover transports do. It's probably the only thing missing from the Amph Complex' strike capability.
I know I gripe a lot but AA is so damn sweet. I jsut want to see it become (what I think) is even better :D
i agree with you dragon, bring em back - I sooo wanted a beamer today on evergreen have, they are v useful!
Bladwings though are fine now I think, their speed, fast paralysing and very low cost more than make up for their lack in hp - they are faster than a vamp!
and they cant chan react when they explode now too
Bladwings though are fine now I think, their speed, fast paralysing and very low cost more than make up for their lack in hp - they are faster than a vamp!
and they cant chan react when they explode now too
Found the Mantis and Scorpion!
Just wanna throw it into there, that i think they would be great for AA ^_^
Mantis:
http://www.planetannihilation.com/corep ... ce=&page=3
Scorpion:
http://www.planetannihilation.com/corep ... ce=&page=4
Undersea amphibious amphibious transports; they kicked ass and were hugely useful back in OTA...
Just wanna throw it into there, that i think they would be great for AA ^_^
Mantis:
http://www.planetannihilation.com/corep ... ce=&page=3
Scorpion:
http://www.planetannihilation.com/corep ... ce=&page=4
Undersea amphibious amphibious transports; they kicked ass and were hugely useful back in OTA...
The snake refuses to fire its torpedo. I have a feeling this has to do with the new, more strict .TDF parser.
oh, caydr, its now possible to add your own explosion bitmaps - this could add a whole new level of graphical ownage to AA.
Any word on bringing the lemming back as a suicidal level 1 con unit buildable wreckage clearer?
oh, caydr, its now possible to add your own explosion bitmaps - this could add a whole new level of graphical ownage to AA.
Any word on bringing the lemming back as a suicidal level 1 con unit buildable wreckage clearer?
Custom explosions, where is this documented?Nemo wrote:The snake refuses to fire its torpedo. I have a feeling this has to do with the new, more strict .TDF parser.
oh, caydr, its now possible to add your own explosion bitmaps - this could add a whole new level of graphical ownage to AA.
Any word on bringing the lemming back as a suicidal level 1 con unit buildable wreckage clearer?
Look in the main Spring dir, the gamedata folder. In there is resources.tdf. Its a list of all the bitmaps that spring references. Obviously, you can change the existing ones and have mods use their own, but I'm reasonably sure that this also lets you add multiple explosion bitmaps. I'll get back to you when I know how - Chris Han did this as part of the effort to make fewer things hardcoded.
I'm pretty sure you can't add mulitple explisions....
edit, I mean even in this version : Chris Han just have unharcoded things, but having multiples explosions is not as easy....
And the explosion should be linked to a weapon or building, in the unit definition, not in ressource.tdf.
edit, I mean even in this version : Chris Han just have unharcoded things, but having multiples explosions is not as easy....
And the explosion should be linked to a weapon or building, in the unit definition, not in ressource.tdf.
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meh, just a small thing since the begining of release, and a bit even more when 1.42 or around that came out. If you change it great, if not oh well.
Anyways, about specialized weaponary, given that there are some weapons that can never be outfitted to fit general roles (cg dethcharge launchers, you can't really expect to chuck them into the air and down a plane or drop them on a tank and hope to kill it) but most weapons can be used without air only or ground only restrictions. Given most AA missiles won't allow you to fire upon ground targets, there's not much harm in letting artillery cannons attack air as well as restoring annihilators/obliterators the ability to attack air (hell annihilators were great at killing air, crows went down after 2 or 3 hits from one of those platforms and pretty much decimates swarms). Or at the very least, restore all the AA missile platforms their dual purpose status without lock.
worked great for homeworld 2 PDS after Tel'Quessir allowed ion cannons to lock onto fighters instead of capital only (well after you lowered the base hp of fighters and corvettes) great beam of death sweeping across the sky obliterating squads after squads at a time. Course it completely destroyed the point of fighters and corvettes when you altered their base hp, but made great cinematics. Things just took too long to die the way they were, reminds me of galactica when you altered the hps, pds firing everywhere, fighters exploding, clouds of missiles flying towards you.
Anyways, about specialized weaponary, given that there are some weapons that can never be outfitted to fit general roles (cg dethcharge launchers, you can't really expect to chuck them into the air and down a plane or drop them on a tank and hope to kill it) but most weapons can be used without air only or ground only restrictions. Given most AA missiles won't allow you to fire upon ground targets, there's not much harm in letting artillery cannons attack air as well as restoring annihilators/obliterators the ability to attack air (hell annihilators were great at killing air, crows went down after 2 or 3 hits from one of those platforms and pretty much decimates swarms). Or at the very least, restore all the AA missile platforms their dual purpose status without lock.
worked great for homeworld 2 PDS after Tel'Quessir allowed ion cannons to lock onto fighters instead of capital only (well after you lowered the base hp of fighters and corvettes) great beam of death sweeping across the sky obliterating squads after squads at a time. Course it completely destroyed the point of fighters and corvettes when you altered their base hp, but made great cinematics. Things just took too long to die the way they were, reminds me of galactica when you altered the hps, pds firing everywhere, fighters exploding, clouds of missiles flying towards you.
yea, I don't make sense at certain times of the day. But it however has gotten me to dig up my Homeworld 2 cds again and reinstall PDS
actually now that I've reinstalled HW2, NGCS kicks, capital ship took out a couple fighters long range with it's main guns before the fighters got into range, plus the enemy bcs nuked the crap outta mine, need more pds guns.
actually now that I've reinstalled HW2, NGCS kicks, capital ship took out a couple fighters long range with it's main guns before the fighters got into range, plus the enemy bcs nuked the crap outta mine, need more pds guns.
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