Partially Built Structures
Partially Built Structures
I got annoyed by the AI spamming buildings in its base while I was destroying it. It took the AI 1 sec to place a building, and I would be destroying it for 20 seconds. I currently have a patch to start them at 1 HP and it seems to work fine. The patch can be found here: http://developer.wz2100.net/ticket/173
Re: Partially Built Structures
"Partially built structure" in this case refers to structures that have not yet 100% of the required power, right?
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No, I'm concerned about the phase where all power is already accrued and the building itself is constructed.
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This is a great suggestion, so i say start from one to full
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Another related proposal: PowerUsage.
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Thats a great proposal, I wish I could help, but I more of a java person then c and c++ (still busy with those )
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Re: Partially Built Structures
A percentage would be best. 1HP would be too much in the favor of the enemy.
Say you had one lowly MG vehicle scurry into the enemy base. He could thwart any attempts at making a building even with his extremely low damage, and make the enemy waste all of their power. If it were at a percentage, he'd have to be there a while to finally destroy it, but by then he probably would have been killed by the defenses. And if it's a high powered Heavy Cannon vehicle or similar, you're screwed either way.
Just my two bits.
Say you had one lowly MG vehicle scurry into the enemy base. He could thwart any attempts at making a building even with his extremely low damage, and make the enemy waste all of their power. If it were at a percentage, he'd have to be there a while to finally destroy it, but by then he probably would have been killed by the defenses. And if it's a high powered Heavy Cannon vehicle or similar, you're screwed either way.
Just my two bits.
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Would build points be separate from body points? Would damaging an under-construction structure decrease the build points and increase the amount of time left to finish construction?
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How do i install patches? Or is it already committed to the trunk?gerard_ wrote:I got annoyed by the AI spamming buildings in its base while I was destroying it. It took the AI 1 sec to place a building, and I would be destroying it for 20 seconds. I currently have a patch to start them at 1 HP and it seems to work fine. The patch can be found here: http://developer.wz2100.net/ticket/173
(i have TRUNK-r6425)
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hmm then i'd like to have a feature to set for example 60% of the power to buildings, 20% to production and 20% to research.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "A visible effect of this might be that a building that was shot at once at the beginning of the construction might get back on schedule HP wise. I don't think this is a problem and might even be realistic" in your patch.
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Re: Partially Built Structures
I voted for > It should start at a percentage of the full health and then go up with the build progress.
But wants to extend a little:
It should start at a percentage of the full health and if someone shoots at building so dealed damage transfer to building in same percentage in built structure. (like in warcraft3)
exempl: full HP of building is > 100. When it it prossece it has 50 hp.... Enemy dealed 10hp damage. So when structure will be ready it would have 80hp.(of all 100hp)
Its like an effect of increased damage.
Hope you like it =)
But wants to extend a little:
It should start at a percentage of the full health and if someone shoots at building so dealed damage transfer to building in same percentage in built structure. (like in warcraft3)
exempl: full HP of building is > 100. When it it prossece it has 50 hp.... Enemy dealed 10hp damage. So when structure will be ready it would have 80hp.(of all 100hp)
Its like an effect of increased damage.
Hope you like it =)
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Re: Partially Built Structures
I think the whole idea is to make a structure under construction easier to destroy, so making partial damage to partially built structure is not an option, since it'll take same time to destroy building as if you are doing full damage to fully-healthed structure.Terminator wrote: But wants to extend a little:
It should start at a percentage of the full health and if someone shoots at building so dealed damage transfer to building in same percentage in built structure.
Btw, I wasn't able to compile that patch under MSVC08, since there is no standard round() function in MSVC.
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Another issue is that unlike other games, in Warzone, all the power to build a structure is spent when the structure begins construction. So if a structure is destroyed when 20% done, 100% of its power is lost, as opposed to 20% in most other RTSes with partial HP during building.
I think the best way to implement this would be to start the structure off with 20% to 40% HP.
Note: Another reason why partially built structures are so annoying is because they have ridiculously high HP. Try destroying a hardpoint in campaign versus in MP. You don't need lots of experience to notice that it's much harder in MP - campaign (1.10) hardpoints have 400 HP, while MP hardpoints have 1300 HP.
I think the best way to implement this would be to start the structure off with 20% to 40% HP.
Note: Another reason why partially built structures are so annoying is because they have ridiculously high HP. Try destroying a hardpoint in campaign versus in MP. You don't need lots of experience to notice that it's much harder in MP - campaign (1.10) hardpoints have 400 HP, while MP hardpoints have 1300 HP.