I'm new here and firstly I wanted to say a big thank you to the developers of this amazing mod, me and my colleagues play it in work at lunch and we're loving it! Please keep up the amazing work so I can enjoy more of your future releases.
My question is, is there any way to increase the cooldown of super weapons? We don't want to completely disable them as they have the potential to tip the tides of war but i feel like even with 'Limit Super weapons' enabled, players can fire them off too often and it would be nice to limit the use of super weapons to once every 20 minutes or so, is this at all possible?
Thanks!
It is possible, although not wanted in terms of game design.
Since 1.86, SW cooldowns have been increased (Nuke missile now takes 8 or 9 minutes to load). They have been tested to fit in the gameplay in 1.87, since before there was kind of an agreement that nobody shall use a superweapon. We even had a time with 2500 cost, and standard loading time... Hell on Earth .
Most games tend to finish very quickly. With that in mind, a 20 minutes cooldown on SWs would mean that -again- superweapons would be ignored.
Since you play with your firends, you can, for instance, agree that no one fires a SW under 20 minutes
How long a game do you have that needs SW launches every 20min,
I suggest you guys should watch some pro plays at Hecthor Doomhammer's channel and learn a bit from how to rush, the right unit compositions etc., since, no offense but games lasting that long tend to be for newbies or really good pros
Thanks for your replies, we've all agreed not to use super weapons, while they look 'cool' to watch, there's nothing fun about watching most of your base get vaporised
We enjoy watching troops/tanks slug it out, makes for a much more enjoyable game, and I wouldn't call us pros just yet, we only installed C&C 3 days ago!
As we play offline LAN we are limited to the RTS game available to us as most modern ones require an internet connection + steam, and as it's within a corporate network with proxy servers, things like that would never get out.
We were playing Warhammer 40k LAN for about two months, now ROTR's has taken over and we're loving it! Our games usually last the length of lunch which is an hour.
Very much looking forward to ROTR v2.0!
Quite sad to ban SWs. Especially for ECA if they go Pandora protocol.
And if you look on Youtube, you will find replays of all levels, from beginners to pro players. I will shamelessly advertise myself, but if you check my Youtube channel, I have several replays that may show you some interesting tactics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3q5T5_PKKqwe_m5TsF3q_w
If you watch matches I was involved in, it will show you how NOT to play
Mismatches stem from the ancient netcode (and random undiscovered errors). We spend a lot of time to find the latter, but we can't do anything about the former.
Regarding that, the vanilla Generals' INI files contain an amusing comment from one of the devs:
; Network timing settings. Don't mess with these unless you know what you're doing!
; If you are tempted to mess with these, please let me know. Bryan x36810
; This does not imply that I know what I'm doing.
if youre not playing on 1.87, play on 1,87. its WAY more stable than 1.86 ever was
Do not increase mor the cooldown of SW please, or fighting against ECA defense turtle will be embarasing and or bored.
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