Radar tied to AA vision?

zinc · Post by **zinc** » Tue Feb 07, 2017 11:04 pm

Relevant to having your radar turned on-- what about linking it to the vision range of AA defence?

I'm sure someone was suggesting linking it to the sight range of helis/planes which is also a reasonable suggestion imo.

AMHOL · Post by **AMHOL** » Wed Feb 08, 2017 9:09 am

Nice idea, makes sense and would give another reason to keep radar powered up, I like it, maybe make a poll?

AoAGeneral1 · Post by **AoAGeneral1** » Wed Feb 08, 2017 2:07 pm

Might pose a problem if the player loses the radar due to a snipe attack and the planes lose vision vs the other player.

Materianer · Post by **Materianer** » Wed Feb 08, 2017 6:16 pm

Sounds like a bad idea to me, this would be really annoying.

If you want to make players turn they'r radar off only in emergency cases, better let the spyplane-timer stop if radar turned off, allies already got that no Gps effect, that's enough imo

zinc · Post by **zinc** » Wed Feb 08, 2017 8:23 pm

Well GPS applies to Soviets also, in team games. But that's only in the late game and only for some games.

zinc · Post by **zinc** » Wed Feb 08, 2017 8:31 pm

Materianer wrote: ↑Sounds like a bad idea to me, this would be really annoying.

If you want to make players turn they'r radar off only in emergency cases, better let the spyplane-timer stop if radar turned off, allies already got that no Gps effect, that's enough imo

I dont mind your idea, if you also paused the GPS launch timer. Not sure how logical the connection is, to either a spy plane or satellite launch, but it could work as a deterrent I believe. Although for allies some games it just wouldn't matter anyway if you aren't going to tech up.

zinc · Post by **zinc** » Wed Feb 08, 2017 8:36 pm

The other thing I can think of, is extend the sight range of the radar dome a little bit; I mean just the vision around the building, but make radar vision dependent on it being powered.

Fortnight · Post by **Fortnight** » Thu Feb 09, 2017 1:32 pm

I wanted to have Radar Dome provide extra vision for all buildings in my overhaul but couldn't do it because there is no trait that gives extra vision if you have a certain upgrade and there is no other trait that gives or takes away that upgrade depending on if the building has power or not. The plan was that you would get one or two cells of vision from all buildings if you don't have an active Radar Dome and then get the normal building vision when the radar was active. It's impossible in the current engine though and something I'm sure would be a good addition to the game, if not used by any official game mods it would probably be used by some modder at sometime or another.

Post by **Sleipnir** » Thu Feb 09, 2017 2:39 pm

Fortnight wrote: ↑there is no trait that gives extra vision if you have a certain upgrade and there is no other trait that gives or takes away that upgrade depending on if the building has power or not.

Both of these things are supported on the bleed version / next release.

Fortnight · Post by **Fortnight** » Thu Feb 09, 2017 7:09 pm

Sleipnir wrote: ↑
Fortnight wrote: ↑there is no trait that gives extra vision if you have a certain upgrade and there is no other trait that gives or takes away that upgrade depending on if the building has power or not.
Both of these things are supported on the bleed version / next release.

Awesome! The new upgrade system seems exciting.

zinc · Post by **zinc** » Sat Feb 11, 2017 12:56 pm

Fortnight wrote: ↑I wanted to have Radar Dome provide extra vision for all buildings in my overhaul but couldn't do it because there is no trait that gives extra vision if you have a certain upgrade and there is no other trait that gives or takes away that upgrade depending on if the building has power or not. The plan was that you would get one or two cells of vision from all buildings if you don't have an active Radar Dome and then get the normal building vision when the radar was active. It's impossible in the current engine though and something I'm sure would be a good addition to the game, if not used by any official game mods it would probably be used by some modder at sometime or another.

Yeah I like that idea.