Spring RTS Engine

lol

I transport comm*

you kill transport in your base

Hi.

*replace with 8 flash, sumo, reaper etc

if you captured an enemy hover transport with 3 enemy peewees inside, what happens to the peewees?

transport becomes yours, but the peewees are stil enemies.

knorke wrote:is it possible that if the transport dies, the units come out unharmed?
so you can free your com.

yes

1v0ry_k1ng wrote:no, transported unit with full control would lead to no end of exploits
....

like what?

if i had a cargo ship with an agile crane and loaded an active enemy tank inside it would probably start a firefight inside.

Maybe make it so loading an enemy unit causes the transport to suffer dmg per second as a function of the unit cost, or dps.

Just letting the transported enemy fire while inside would accomplish the same goal and its simpler to implement.

it would be fun though, if kbots had an animation that loops, (like the walk animation), that would be played when they are loaded by an enemy air transport.

Imagine what happens when you pick a tiny animal against its will, it kicks around trying to free himself.

comm in t2 transport with d gun/repair

GG

1v0ry_k1ng wrote:no, transported unit with full control would lead to no end of exploits
....

After thinking a while about this statement: yes, it is true, but irrelevant. If we stay within the game world and think about the units as in war, the only logical thing is, as pointed out by the previous speaker, to at least let them self-d. Yes, it allows exploits with crawling bombs etc, but that should then be tackled some other way, for example by raising the ethical level among the player base.

Not really: why wouldn't it be as logical for the transport to stun its passenger so it eases transport?

Jools wrote:but that should then be tackled some other way, for example by raising the ethical level among the player base.

Seriously? Hahaha.

Regret wrote:

Jools wrote:but that should then be tackled some other way, for example by raising the ethical level among the player base.

Seriously? Hahaha.

You will understand when you get older.

Tobi wrote:Not really: why wouldn't it be as logical for the transport to stun its passenger so it eases transport?

That's kind of logical, the problem only arises when the unit doesn't want to be stunned.

Then it should run away and/or kill the transport

I don't mind the ability to nap enemy coms. It's easy enough to prevent (just walk your com or build AA towers). However, I do get pissed when some random troll naps ally coms and does stuff with them.

Maybe a button on your com (like Repeat button or Hold Fire) that disallows it being picked up by friendly transports?

the main problem of comm napping is hover transports

walking comm away fails as they're fecking fast and have long army

defenders fail as it just hovers straight through 'em

just make the arm move slow when loading but move fast when unloading

well then its a pain when you use them to load lots of units. Just make llts they work.

i have never seem someone use the hover transport for something else than napping coms. because you can just make other hovers if you need to cross water and there are even hovercons to build stuff.

I used it to save my commander when it was on about 5% from about 20 bombers

that was pretty epic

so you napped your own com.

napping implies stealing

but I know what you mean, I've said it, why bother with a hover transport when you have hovers as it is, or you can merely make air/sea transports