Guard Tower
- Reduced vision from 7 to 6
- Increased buildtime from 12s to 24s
Gun Turret
- Reduced vision from 7 to 6
- Increased buildtime from 15s to 30s
SAM Site
- Increased buildtime from 18s to 36s
Advanced Guard Tower
- Reduced vision from 9 to 7
- Increased buildtime from 24s to 48s
Obelisk of Light
- Reduced vision from 8 to 7
- Increased buildtime from 36s to 52s
separated into IncomingSound = "nuke approaching/detected"
and changed LaunchSound into "nuke lauched"
also nuke with small L .aud in cnc rules looks like a typo
Someone complained that there was not good warning for the nuke. All you heard was the launch sound, which wasn't that noticeable and a bit like other sounds.
Now it says, "nuclear missile approaching".
This is combined with slightly reducing the amount of tiberium stored in Refineries. Part of the reason for this is that refineries are targeted lots by ion cannons (one-shot kill) and nukes. Whenever this happens, you lose the money that's in them. By making a silo that stores more, you can store the tib farther away and keep a bit more of it safe.
The other part of the reason is to bring silos into the game as a somewhat strategic structure. By having more money, they are more capturable, because you can steal what's in them. It might also make sense to maybe airstrike them so that the opponent loses what money is in them.
The way to counteract this problem is to build more silos. They cost a bit more though (double) so that you have to think about how many you want.
It's really difficult to kill guard towers once they're up. The only reliable ways are to try to take out their power with airstrikes/orcas/etc. or use artillery from a distance. They are supposed to be tough but they are a bit too much.
Guard tower HP should be nerfed because they are wickedly hard to kill. Adv. tower's power should increase because they are annoying when sprawled everywhere and really hard to take out once established.
Nobody uses repair bay, because it's not a pre-requisite for anything, and it's expensive. Reducing cost from $1200 to $600.
To compensate for its lower value, its HP are being lowered as well, from 800 to 400. Now it should be killable with an airstrike, which is about right.
To anyone paying attention: there has been some discussion over whether repairs should be cheaper. I am agnostic on the issue for now. How about we see if people like the repair bay more now and consider using it, before making further balance changes? Open to discussion.
8 seconds cooldown time for conyard seems unnecessary and a bit long. Reduced to 5 seconds. The build radius on its own will probably deal with most basewalking problems, so the cooldown time isn't as important.
Increased Turret and Guard Tower's cloak detection range to 5. They need the range, especially since they are relatively easily destroyed by stealth tanks.
The detection range for cloaked units for guard towers and guns is low (3).
This is needed so that stealth tanks aren't too good at sneaking by everything.
This also implements support for a per-provider
cooldown between placing structures, allowing mods
with multiple structure queues to rate-limit
placement around a single provider.
An initial delay parameter is included to
support units that deploy into a base provider and
require an initial setup time (e.g. the Surveyor
unit from C&C TW).
The range and time restrictions are not applied to
walls as a balance choice.
Weapons Factory & Nod Airstrip HP reduced greatly (to 1000), so that nuke can now destroy them (& Ion Cannon almost but not quite).
Advanced Communication Center's HP increased from 1000 to 1200, to give it some more breathing room vs. ion cannon strikes.
Added ANYHQ as a custom pre-requisite, so that the temple of nod and advanced communications center will also allow building of advanced units.
