Complete Annihilation News

[manored]

Actual, thats on purpose, aircraft factories can be built underwater on CA. Reason is because they tough that doing this + allowing normal aircraft to land on water would eliminate the needs of seaplanes and make everthing simpler.I agree :)

[GBscientist]

I am having a problem with disabling units in CA. I asked in the Help and Bugs forum, and the answers provided did not fix the problem. When I opened a support ticket at caspring.org it was closed without informing me of the resolution.

How do I get units to show up in the Disable Units Dialog. It is totally blank. I have been told that it was due to a compression issue with CA Downloader, but I have the latest version of Downloader and its still happening. I was told to try deleting archivecachev6.txt, but that also did not fix the problem.

Please help.

[Otherside]

i dont think disabling units works in CA

cos CA has all unitdefs in a lua format unlike any other spring mod so i dont think the normal disabling method works so atm i think its impossible

ur only solution is for the people involved to agree to not build sumthing altho there is no unit in CA atm imo that really should be disabled

[KDR_11k]

I think Evo uses lua unitdefs too. The lists should be taken from UnitSync though.

[GBscientist]

I only play against bots and the only way to get them to not use a unit or structure is to disable it. I find the game is no fun for me when the bot starts to bombard me with nuclear missiles. If there is no way to disable the missile silos, CA is of no use to me.

[KDR_11k]

Get antinukes, then the missiles won't reach you.

[Otherside]

anti nuke is cheaper than nuke by far

just build one like KDR said :S the bot is still wasting a ton of more resources than u r and i doubt they r smart enuff to focus ur anti nuke

heck u can even cheat urself in a anti nuke if it bothers u so much

[GBscientist]

Managing the anti-nuke's ammo supply is a pain in the butt. If there were an AI to do it for me, I'd consider it, but as it is, using anti-nukes takes all of my attention so offensive operations become impossible.

It's much easier just to disable nuclear weapons from the start.

[Otherside]

theres a widget that autostockpiles 100 ammo on anything that has ammo

[GBscientist]

Where might I get this widget?

[Evil4Zerggin]

AFAIK it is included with Spring as a user widget. You may have to mouse wheel down to see it since mod widgets are listed first.

[Google_Frog]

If you click on the ammo button multiple times you can stockpile multiple antinukes.

[Forboding Angel]

press and hold ctrl, then click the button 5 times = 100 builds in queue

[[Krogoth86]]

press and hold ctrl, then click the button 5 times = 100 builds in queue

Holding CTRL should add in just 5 build orders per click if I'm not mistaken. If you want 100 just hold CTRL+Shift because then each click adds 100 build orders...

[ginekolog]

Best solution:

use stockpiler widget and never wory about this again :)
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Oh noe i gave my uber secret away

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--
--  file:    unit_stockpile.lua
--  brief:   adds 100 builds to all new units that can stockpile
--  author:  Dave Rodgers
--
--  Copyright (C) 2007.
--  Licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, v2 or later.
--
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function widget:GetInfo()
  return {
    name      = "Stockpiler",
    desc      = "Automatically adds 100 stockpile builds to new units",
    author    = "trepan",
    date      = "Jan 8, 2007",
    license   = "GNU GPL, v2 or later",
    layer     = 0,
    enabled   = false  --  loaded by default?
  }
end

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function widget:UnitCreated(unitID, unitDefID, unitTeam)
  local ud = UnitDefs[unitDefID]
  if ((ud ~= nil) and (unitTeam == Spring.GetMyTeamID())) then
    if (ud.canStockpile) then
      -- give stockpilers 100 units to build
      Spring.GiveOrderToUnit(unitID, CMD.STOCKPILE, {}, { "ctrl", "shift" })
    end
  end
end


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[manored]

Well ideally you should have already kicked the AIs ass and ressurected everthing just to kick its ass again way before they have econ for a nuke :) Depends of what AI you are playing against tough.

[kiki]

Well ideally you should have already kicked the AIs ass and ressurected everthing just to kick its ass again way before they have econ for a nuke :) Depends of what AI you are playing against tough.

This is soo fun! Thanks for the suggestion.

[GBscientist]

Best solution:

use stockpiler widget and never wory about this again :)
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Oh noe i gave my uber secret away
[snip]

The stockpiler widget is already part of the list of widgets in LuaUI. How do I got about activating it? Sorry for the extreme newb question.

[Evil4Zerggin]

Press F11 in-game to bring up the list of widgets, then click on it to activate it (the name will turn from red to green when activated).

[GBscientist]

Thanks.