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Re: What units are most important?
Posted: 11 Aug 2009, 21:30
by Master-Athmos
Such a widget would be a silly idea. Apart from it sucking out yet more player skill I hardly think you could make one that's operable. Giving info where what has to stand so that explosion destroys something when destroying whatever is there let's you have 5000 circles, info-boxes or whatever on screen leading to one big mess...
I also doubt that there is a reasonable way for a widget to decide what would be "the best idea". If you'd come up with something like this integrate it in an AI please to have an unbeatable enemy...
Deciding what to bomb is a player's decision and totally depends on the situation and should stay that way...
PS:
Similar to Jazcash I have pretty much never targetted metal makers with bombers. That only makes sense if he build tons of T1 makers in one big farm or like 4+ T2s right next to each other what no experienced player would do. As they get useless anyway when you kill the power generators (and as they're rather cheap to rebuild) it makes much your sense to destroy those and kill two birds with one stone...
Re: What units are most important?
Posted: 11 Aug 2009, 21:44
by Neddie
E, B, A generally. Without build power your generally more durable buildings won't survive the concentrated second run. In CA there are rather annoying times where, with the aid of terraform and the spread of bombs, a target you wished to hit with an area bomb will survive, supported by the build power around it. That and good luck getting more AA up or rebuilding immediately.
Re: What units are most important?
Posted: 11 Aug 2009, 22:08
by Sabutai
IMO:
Kill the enemies energy. Metalextractors wont work without e. If the enemy com is a threat target him. Else get his buildpower. In any case targeting sth explosive next to your target is an option if you can do more damage.
Re: What units are most important?
Posted: 11 Aug 2009, 22:21
by Master-Athmos
Oh and we mustn't forget of the game mode! If you play a 1on1 ComEnd then go for the Com of course!
Re: What units are most important?
Posted: 11 Aug 2009, 23:24
by zerver
JAZCASH wrote:I personally have never and never will target metal makers.
If they are built near a block of fusions, bombing them can be a whole lot more efficient than bombing the actual fusions.
Re: What units are most important?
Posted: 11 Aug 2009, 23:25
by CarRepairer
Caydr wrote:Just out of curiosity, if someone made a widget which highlights units which will cause the greatest total harm to the enemy, taking into account chain reaction explosions, estimated economic recovery time, etc, would you consider it to be an unfair advantage?
For instance, it might tell you to attack a specific metal maker in order to set off a chain reaction which attacking other metal makers in a small area would not. Or it might make it clear at exactly what proximity a commander must be before the unit in question will be destroyed by its explosion.
This is actually a very creative idea. Very intriguing.
Re: What units are most important?
Posted: 11 Aug 2009, 23:35
by Jazcash
PLEASE NO MOAR WIDGOTS.
Seriously, it's just making peoples gameplay more and more artificial.
I don't mind if the widget just makes what they would have originally done easier but when it actually changes their play style and advises them what to shoot at, what to do etc, it just gets newby.
Seriously, all the cool widgets have been invented already! Stop making new ones! With the exception of VBS. His widgets still own ^_^
Re: What units are most important?
Posted: 11 Aug 2009, 23:45
by CarRepairer
JAZCASH wrote:PLEASE MOAR WIDGOTS.
Seriously, it's just making peoples gameplay more and more
cool
^_^
I wasn't going to but if you insist.
Re: What units are most important?
Posted: 12 Aug 2009, 00:20
by Jazcash
CarRepairer wrote:
I going to but you
Re: What units are most important?
Posted: 12 Aug 2009, 00:27
by MidKnight
JAZCASH wrote:CarRepairer wrote:
I going to but you
Please, put more thought and content into your posts in the future. Thanks!
Re: What units are most important?
Posted: 12 Aug 2009, 00:29
by Jazcash
MidKnight wrote:JAZCASH wrote:CarRepairer wrote:
I going to but you
Please, put more content into your pos ture. Thanks!
Re: What units are most important?
Posted: 12 Aug 2009, 00:30
by CarRepairer
Running gag is running.
Re: What units are most important?
Posted: 12 Aug 2009, 00:31
by Jazcash
CarRepairer wrote:nig ga r.
Re: What units are most important?
Posted: 12 Aug 2009, 10:16
by Sabutai
What a bunch of widgiots.
Re: What units are most important?
Posted: 12 Aug 2009, 15:28
by YokoZar
I always target decoy fusions and decoy commanders