Drop bomb command for bombers

[Valki]

I'd like to see a command that tells a bomber to immediately drop a bomb if its off cooldown.
It should also have a toggle option that, while enabled, lets the bomber drop a bomb whenever it is off cooldown.

This should be easy to implement, and open up a wide array of options not available now.
One problem I get with bombers is in attacking large armies. The bombers pick a 'random' target and try to engage it, and if they fail they throw nothing at all. However, if they had dropped a bomb it would probably have hit 2-3 enemy units.

Ideally, bombers should be able to do carpet bombing, take targets of opportunity, etc... but this is hard to implement. The drop bomb command should give players the option to do all this with only minimal micro.

[Wakke]

Yes please!

[Gorton]

I do agree with you, but as a stopgap, you can use the attack ground command instead of attacking a specific target.

[prodromos]

No way, make them lose the target on the 1st pass, as it was in 3599. Better still buff the dps of the SAMs and nerf the horsepower and speed of the bombers. If it is possible make them more expensive and unresponsive at the 1st command...
(trolling hard)
On a more serious tone, this is a nice idea, it would require ,though, such micro, that only players with a true rating >1500-1600
would be able to pull off rendering such a capability useless for the majority of players.I am positive, anyway, if it can be programmed.
Speaking about air, I would like the function of transports to be corrected, as they can only be effective, if they meet no resistance.
How on earth could I use them offensively if they slow down over mountain tops, thus betraying their position and cancelling any element of surprise. They tend to spend an eternity, too, when they drop their units at the destination point, again cancelling any surprise and becoming free mass for the opponent.Not to speak of the loading time....

[dstojkov]

hi guys,


I think I have found out how to make your bomber useful in giving them the possibility to have an attack order on multiple target like now but if your target didn't died he goes further to the next target without extra order


I will implement it in the next release of the fa unleashed


Regards

[FunkOff]

Impossible: Weapons can only fire on targets.

[Swkoll]

Impossible: Weapons can only fire on targets.

Could you set it to do something like this?

If off cooldown{
send stop order
switch mode to ground fire
send attack target ground order
resume move order
}

[FunkOff]

Well, actually, I can make a projectile appear out of thin air. That's possible. What's impossible is making a weapon shoot at nothing.

And if you give a bomber a command to attack a piece of land, it will bomb that piece of land when it's good and ready, and not a moment sooner.

[dstojkov]

Impossible: Weapons can only fire on targets.

Such an unfaithful guy ..... The kind of beliving only what he can see ?

Just tested and in a working state

Look forward to the next release of fa unleashed

[Veta]

reminds me of this http://forums.gaspowered.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=40729