Planes Realistic Altitude Flight

I think that was done for balance reasons.

I think manual flight height adjustment would open the door to too much tedious micro. The units abilities and AI should just be good by default. Report specific issues with plane aiming and bombing.

How much more expensive would planes need to be to balance them out if they could bomb without diving?

raven are a melee unit (+50% range of scyth)

quote: Try bombing crabs on a terraformed hill. The planes "divebomb" the crab, where they go to a low altitude for such an attack and instead get caught up in the mountain and completely fail to hit the crab.

They don't do this for me and they are able to bomb Crabs up to quite a high height. A 2000 metal hill causes problems simply because Raven cannot climb that fast.

I have made Raven able to climb and bomb anything on Grts_DesertValley_012 on its first pass. This seems sufficient so I'll call the issue fixed.

I started to understand GoogleFrog at least from a coder's perspective. Making planes have realistic flight will bring two problems:
1. What happens when planes have an altitude set up to 0 and they hit a wall bigger than 30? Of course, a weird bug will happen and this is why in terms of coding it's a bit hard to renovate the behavior of planes and gunships.
Here you will have to implement the standard pathfinding of ground units into the planes so when they hit a specific wall they will either try to avoid it or follow a different path.

2. Aa missiles that will try to hit high altitude planes (if you select them to have an altitude of 1000 for example). So this new button that will let you chose what altitude you want will also inflict balance issues for the whole anti-air.
Hacksaw, Chainsaw, and Artemis will need to be readjusted meaning that missiles need to be faster than usual so they will not fire 15 missiles to kill a swift and waste the rest of the missiles.

I know that making Zero-K as realistic as possible will make this game more wanted by the community. But the coding perspective of each aspect that we need to change will require a lot of manpower to adjust every single issue.

I will start a new thread for all the changes that I propose for this game in order to look as much realistic as possible.

Anti-air uses the no-overkill thing introduced like a year ago. AA will change targets once an enemy unit has enough missiles tracked onto it to die, and that accounts for physics(and thing like repair and shields) so if the missiles miss then the system just lets AA fire another missile. You see this behavior with fencers and fleas, you see it with some artillery attacking buildings. It was an amazing QOL chnge. Also, spamming chainsaws in speedmetal now counters swift spam because there's no wasted shots.