the field command doesnt have a build limit of one
by having they production in the research facility all you do is making them unable to be produced in more than one

Plus as cool as it is to have the mass produced protocol units use the elevator as well, it's not codeable.

Oh, that is sad. Out of curiosity, what is the issue?

The unit you see emerging from the elevator is fake, it's actually part of the door model of the research facility. The issue is that you can't set which door model to use for a specific unit being built, meaning if for example you build a Fenris in the research center, it will show the Pandora rising from the elevator then sudenly change into the Fenris.

Of course you can fix this by just adding walls and a roof to the elevator, effectively creating a generic door animation, but that would defeat the whole purpose of using this effect in the first place.

Is there a limit on door animation numbers? There are one animations for each Prototype already, and judging from warfactories and airports, the limit is two?
Otherwise, maybe a "spawn-in" a la Deployment Zone style but with a Pegasus heli outside the structure will do...

Each factory can only have 1 door, unless it's an airfield which can have as many doors as the number of runways you specify. However, the door limit is not the issue, the issue is you can't tell the game to use a specific door for a specific unit. The reason why it works for the protocols units is because each protocol upgrade is coded to also change the facility's door model.

A spawn in ability a la deployment zone might work, but it would: 1. Look stupid (why do we even have a deployment zone if the pegasus can land anywhere anyway?) 2. Be too much work 3. Would accomplish nothing except create a production bottleneck for the protocol's supposed "mass produced" units.

Support units were moved to the Field Command essentially to make it a lot more useful and appealing to the player, before that all it could do was make and repair dozers, which personally I felt was a waste due to it's awesome model and fairly large footprint. The Research Center on the other hand holds your Tier 2 upgrades as well as the Protocol Units, even if you don't get the Protocols you'd still need it as a tier 2 prerequisite as well as the upgrades. That said, it's obvious when comparing the two, which one needed more uses. The Research Center is already plenty useful and doesn't need any more uses.

That's sensible, though as long as you can fill a build queue with them, it's still mass production right? What I want to say is to let the Pegasus spawn the MP unit in on a side of the Research Facility or use the hatch as a drop-off pad.
By the way, do you remember in Xenoforce the way Musai and Argama produces units by dislodging generic boxes that open automatically? Just saying, if anyone want to pick it up...

Mass producible means no build limit, but it doesn't imply how many production buildings can the player have. In terms of ECA, Tiger and Harrier are mass producible, but bottle-necked - their availability is linear, because there is only one Deployment Zone to build them. At any given time (if you always order your DZ to build said units) you will have "time of game" divided by "Unit build time" (equals 15 seconds for both units AFAIK). If you can build more than one production facility, number of units you can have in short order increases very quickly.

As i understand Dev team wanted their MP protocol units not bottle-necked.

This post has been edited by Planardweller: 25 Sep 2014, 10:17

I've noticed that the vehicle digout is different in each picture.
Is the one on the left the model when garrisoned, and the one on the right un-garrisoned,
or are there multiple models like with the hopper and all the gla stuff?

^surely one is garrisoned and the other is not, just check the concrete blocks and chains.

Is it only me or russian aircraft underpowered? Requires general promotion, expencive as hell, dying easy, not effective as chinese in their purpose nor self-sufficient like USA... Can somebody point some good traits?
Also nobody loves the GLA helicopters sprinklers. Even so with several of them you can create a contamination as dence as antrax bomb In exchange for some weak rockets.

This post has been edited by kwendy: 28 Sep 2014, 22:28

Russian air power is meant to be a weakness, as opposed to China, who have everything OP, and the US, whose air power is one of their advantages.

Russia have a limited airforce. It powerfull, but its expensive, requires general promotion, and its only two units.
But its because its a gameplay & lore thing. Russia its a direct assault faction, based more in quality than quantity. So its units are powerfull but expensive. And because Russia have really powerfull Hellicopters, its fixed wing craft mut be limited.

And lorewise, when Russia started the war, they used their airforce to destroy the majority ECA continental airports, except Spain & Portugal. Althougt the mission was a succes (leaving the ECA with a limited airforce lore & gameplay wise), the Russian airforce suffered high looses due to ECA anti-air. (At least, is what I believe)

This post has been edited by Omnius64: 29 Sep 2014, 13:07

FYI, they don't have a limited.

So... You use one general promotion and amount of cash enough to build a Tremor Agas to... I don't know, harass enemy supply line once or destroy GLA air? Seems legit.

In terms of functions, the Russian air force isn't limited. You've got a versatile general purpose fighter that can also engage ground targets and a very useful stealth ground attack jet that rips through all kinds of tanks. A wing of Sokols can stop a Manticore, Overlords, Sentinels, heavy anti-air and other vehicular hazards cold.

And how many times they actually did it? As far as I've seen on stream it takes small group of gattlings to take on wing of VERY expensive ground attack jets with minimum casualties and fighters can't really intercept enemy aircraft on their own.
In SHW USA armour general gets expencive but better-then-nothing jets that actually can be helpful in ground forces support. In RoTR we have beautiful and not so bad on its own fixed winged air but it's totally useless for real puposes (except boasting) and can be replaced by cheaper means easily.

This post has been edited by kwendy: 29 Sep 2014, 20:26

Ah, ECA's Vehicle Digout reminds me of RA2 Yuri's Tank Bunkers.
Very useful!!
I hope it can fit tanks and vehicles from other factions too.

Speaking of Russian Airforce...

I'll be missing my frogfoots... :'(

If these are the streams where I piloted the Sokols, then it's partially me being the issue. My micro sucks and when I'm under pressure I just put everything I can into guard mode and pray that I'll see a light of hope in the chaos forecoming.

IOW, my Sokol tactics aren't even close to the micro Bruce pulls out with his Raptors. Ofcourse, without that, they'll feel underpowered.

This post has been edited by Graion Dilach: 5 Oct 2014, 21:58

Why Bruce don't play Russia in some of streams ?
Pretty much whole Russian air force was revamped,even Berkut,so why he don't show us good use of it ?

good question why not ask bruce yourself?

You'll find that answer in his name: (USA)Bruce.

You're totally right.
Su-25/39 Frogfoot was like a balanced countermeasure against ground forces. But not anymore...

The Frogfoot wasn't balanced. It was a flying bomb carrier that was so powerful that it turned what was always meant to be an optional unlock into a no-brainer necessity for Russia to achieve anything. The Sokol still gives you a noticeable edge against ground units, but in a much more nuanced way which, along with the changes we've applied to Russian helicopters, finally makes their air force the optional, situational support tool that it was always meant to be, similar to the GLA's.