money is limited, shouldnt be wasted on pointless things that take extra
time building for no reason. Like, power stations, barracks.
Some changes inspired by original dune 2000 stats. Other buildings left as
is, because we're not trying to copy the original game.
Light factory made super cheap to distinguish it from heavy factory. It
should make poor-man's units, relatively quickly. Things that sort of
suffice at countering better heavy units like tanks, while pursuing a
different strategy.
No buildings cost more than $2000, because it's not really necessary to
have things be that expensive (from what I can tell). It just wastes time
and cuts down possibilities for strategy by making certain things out of
reach and forcing everyone into similar strategies.
Research facilities that unlock units (outpost, high tech factory,
research facility) all ~1000.
Starport made 2000 so that it's not too cheap since it's good, but not
inaccessible as a mid-game strategy.
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.
Chinook had "Re-arms at: HPAD" entered in its rules, even though it has no weapons. This is what caused it to return to base when you hit 'F' instead of land.
Now it lands again when you hit F. *phew* so happy :)
Sniper range of 7 seems ridiculous, since it's a one-shot kill, and you can build multiple. (I support building multiple). Surprised I never noticed this issue before.
The range in C&C 95 was 5.5.
The ScanRadius is set to 5, which is probably why we haven't noticed any OP problems.
It's also a bit ridiculous since the unit's sight radius is only 5.
Making bridges indestructible.
Rationale:
-many maps don't work when bridges are destructible (most or all of the crossings are bridges)
-bridges will be repairable in the future. At this point, an engi can come and re-open it, but in the meantime, they shouldn't be destroyed.
-if someone wants to make a map with destructible bridges, they still can, by editing the .yaml themselves. This should be the default, though.
(FWIW, bridges were not destructible in C&C 1.)
