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.
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.
Changes include:
- bibs have been removed
- building offset and selection boxes adapted
- units and turrets leave husks
- siege tank barrel won't rotate anymore
- AI capable of building all units using all queues
- bullet traces
- windtrap animations
- unit balance (mix of Dune II, Dune 2000 and Red Alert)
- repair pad animation
- no more obsessive "silos needed"
- defense building queue → heavy armor queue
- medics (using thumper graphics)
- no buildable aircrafts anymore
- harvesting has been slowed down
Made the building menu more logical. Rows according to tech tree.
power / refinery / silos 0/10/15
barracks / outpost / starport 20/30/40
light factory / heavy factory / repair bay 50/60/70
high-tech factory / ix tech center / palace 80/90/100
If you want to move silos to the Defense queue, then I would re-arrange it slightly.
