Spring RTS Engine

perhaps I should make the ion cannon a d-gun type weapon..

Fanger wrote:perhaps I should make the ion cannon a d-gun type weapon..

Ye! kills everything in 1 shot!

ion cannon is paralysis.... not damage lippy.

smoth wrote:ion cannon is paralysis.... not damage lippy.

Even better. It's like killing them but going against their unit count!

doofus.. d-gun is a weapon firing type.. the damage and paralize time can be controlled completely, I could change Peewees to fire d-gun style shots and they would still do the same damage the shot would just act differently, in this case it would go along the ground automatically after hitting allowing for a better emp effect..

I'm pro that. It'll make it hit more things and make me build them more often!

another solution is to give the weapon a large collisionsize (~5 or so) tag, so that it hits things while still moving quickly. I've had really good success with that in conjunction with projectiles moving as fast as weaponvelocity=2500 and small (about 60% of a 1x1 footprint) units.

Definitely one of my favourite mods, aside from TAWD. This one has be coming back to it time and again

I think Dguns have better hit prediction, but i dont think that would help. Dguns still dont start doing the explodey thing until they hit the ground. Also, can dguns graphics be edited verymuch? Arent they stuck to sort of the one effect?

I'd go with the larger collision size, seems an elegant solution. Perhaps large enough that it starts hitting the ground right out of the cannon, to get the full AoE effect.

But that means that the unit would stun itself. Unless you make it EMP resistant. Which is bad in its own way; if you're playing GD vs GD, you should be able to EMP your opponent's EMP tanks if you get the drop on them.

Uuuhhhm...... NoSelfDamage=1? Buh....?

smoth wrote:ion cannon is paralysis.... not damage lippy.

Fanger wrote:doofus.. d-gun is a weapon firing type.. the damage and paralize time can be controlled completely, I could change Peewees to fire d-gun style shots and they would still do the same damage the shot would just act differently, in this case it would go along the ground automatically after hitting allowing for a better emp effect..

Anyone heard of sarcasm? (yes i know it was a very poor attempt :p)

no reason to get upset. I was telling you a fact not personally attacking you.

Might be off topic, but one problem I've been having with EE is Map selection. Which maps would you guys recommend to play EE on?

we used to play the hell out of giant hills and valleys. Canyons by forb was also a popular one.

Generally grab maps by F_A. I also recommend XantheTerra and Splintered Tropics.

don't play EE on Xanth... URC get's a massive advantage due to bad typemap usage.

It's just, not good.

You'll have to pick the right version. Somebody foolishly released v4 and it has been all messed up because of that.

Id still like someone, preferably Forb, Deci.. or whatnot to look at replay and confirm or deny what saktoth is saying.. so that it can be addressed..

so could you upload a replay or something..

Do you mean the Ion Tank thing, or the porciness?