Decrease build time of Air units made by experimental carrie

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Re: Decrease build time of Air units made by experimental ca

Postby FlyingNorwegian » 12 Feb 2012, 17:19

i think the sub factory is great for stealthed plane making...hiding 2 of them underwater while enemy scouting thinking u got 0 air..theen baaam.

build speed is good enough on the exp submarine..make engis assist it even if u want it faster...its mobile, it got anti air and great torpedo capability
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Re: Decrease build time of Air units made by experimental ca

Postby IceDreamer » 14 Feb 2012, 02:43

FunkOff wrote:
ShadowKnight wrote: it is not difficult for the Atlantis to have a built in cost reduction.


How do you do it then?


I believe the easiest way to find out would be to take a look at how the BlackOps team did their Experimental Seraphim Archway. However, now I am awake, I think they may have used duplicate units with different costs... Which CAN be done, but is ugly. I think it may be possible to have an OnBuildStart check of some sort which finds the cost of the unit being built, then applies a multiplier... I'm not sure, you would have to ask a more experienced programmer than myself :/


As for th units being almost free, it wouldn't be nearly as much of a problem as it might seem at first. Everything in this game should be a strategic decision. If we make it so the Experimentals have extremely high build power, the strategy you are going for is massive air assault in a short period of time. On the flip side, if we reduced the costs by 90% and INCREASED the build time by 4 times, then the strategy would be to hide away very slowly building up a supplementary force for almost nothing while concentrating on another strategic option for your main assault. Unlike most RTS games SupCom has TIME as a resource, and IMO we have not yet seen this fact used to it's full potential.
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