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.
Weapons are now defined with the Armament trait
and turret parameters live in Turreted.
This has the side effect of allowing any number
and distribution of weapons and turrets.
ATWR HP reduced from 800 to 600
ATWR power consumptions inreased from 20 to 30
Increased sight range of towers to match their range.
Silo moved over in build queue
Air Strike cooldown time reduced from 4 minutes to 3. (Ion Cannon is 3). [games are short in CNC, and waiting 4 minutes for your first airstrike is a long time.]
HQ's hitpoints reduced to 750, so it can be nuked in one shot. (but not Ion Cannon'd)
Airfield HP reduced to 1500, so Ion + Airstrike can destroy it. (For some reason, it doesn't die as easily as Weapons Factory, despite having the same HP)
Helipad price reduced to $1000. Should make helicopter transports more accessible. Should also make having a few "support helis" flying around a more viable strategy, for non-standard builds.
Fixed palette order to be better grouped and in more progressive order.
Re-arranged document so that it's sorted better.
ClassicProductionQueue gets support for new notification system
d2k now uses the ClassicProductionQueue system to avoid spamming
Starport has cheaper threshold prices
adds a new production queue but has long delivery times
also no starport price fluctuation to improve balancing
