Spring RTS Engine

Finally decided to cave in and try to add a balanced L2 anti-air kbot to AA. But I can't find any that don't look like crap. Any suggestions? Even if the unit isn't currently an anti-air unit, I can make it one... I just want it to be visually appealing really, I can do the rest on my own. (I could make them from scratch but that would take a long time and I'd like to have them in 1.42)

what about the conversation over that in the past about making ppl going through diferent plant types to have all they wanted ?

Well, this unit would be nothing compared to a real flakker tank, just a longer ranged crasher-type thing with a bit of extra firepower.

I don't really think it's needed, but a lot of people were asking...

I imagine a tank with large treads and the head of a Raven from XTA. Atleast I think thats the name of that terrain-only-firing kbot. Or a kbot with the same head but a differing body. Just my 2 cents,

but he wants kbot

You could try the Pom-Pom from Terror Maps and Units



http://tmu.tauniverse.com/?p=units

Caydr wrote:Well, this unit would be nothing compared to a real flakker tank, just a longer ranged crasher-type thing with a bit of extra firepower.

I don't really think it's needed, but a lot of people were asking...

its not that im opposed to the flak kbot , i like it but ive seen a lot of the "we dont need that"
Just make it not very powerfull (less powerfull then the mobile flak from the adv vehicle plant)

I"m not going to bother with the idea in 1.42 after all. Even the very best ones I've found or had people show me are positively hideous.

Heh, I tried.

That Pom-Pom looked great for a flak bot.

The only problem with it is that it's missing a midsection. It was designed strongly with OTA in mind, meaning that anything you can't see in OTA is not there. It basically has no torso, just a big gaping hole.

Not everything players beg you for is a good idea to add. Players rarely know what is best for them - hell, most would like to pump out orcones from a l1 lab and duke it out that way.

I go kbot fairly often and rarely, if ever, have a problem dealing with air. An adv con kbot with farks can build more than enough flak (and on the core side, a group of freakers) - and if I really need roving antiair, I'll pick up l1/l2 fighters to deal with them. The mobile flaks are pretty garbage as of now anyhow. That is, after all, why people often kill them with brawlers.

I think its sorta "usefull" so to speak, in some very specific situations when you dont want to spend res doing another plants and want a moving flak on the fly (and it would be cheaper then the flakker).

Ah but people so dislike being told they don't know what's best for them

I want an AA kbot that looks like this:

[edit]seems they removed the pic. The original page is http://world.guns.ru/machine/mg08-e.htm
OK put the image on my page:

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It would shoot bullets instead of flak... or maybe rapid fire weak flak shells. A cheap or fast-to-build unit that's supposed to be used in groups.

aspa wrote:I want an AA kbot that looks like this:



It would shoot bullets instead of flak... or maybe rapid fire weak flak shells. A cheap or fast-to-build unit that's supposed to be used in groups.

omfg teh pwnz0rz!!!
oh wait, I don't see anything...

The white box of dewm!

You can prob take some RUMAD units from MADTA. They have a few rocket kbots that could be used to fire AA missles in volleys (like the AA ships)

Caydr wrote:The only problem with it is that it's missing a midsection. It was designed strongly with OTA in mind, meaning that anything you can't see in OTA is not there. It basically has no torso, just a big gaping hole.

Just ask the guys at TAU to see if they can remodel it. Quite a few people are still making units. The original unit creators might still be there.

Whats wrong with aspa image? have you tryed right clicking and going properties and nicking teh url. If it don't show i suggest you do that.

Acctull I quite like the idea of a rapid fire gun style one. would be a nice point of difference. and would look kinda cool, like the sort of crazy 1 man army guys you get in films with two machine guns under each arm...

aGorm