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Terraforming++

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2 months ago
Waiter, Waiter.

More terraforming tools, please.

(Modmakers? Theorists? Artists? Feel free to dump your ideas here. Or elsewhere.)
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2 months ago
Terraforming tool:
Day cycle + Night cycle

One terraforming device creates a giant fog that makes every unit cloaked.

The other terraforming device instead boosts every unit's sight range.

When combined, these two terraforming tools periodically swap influences with each other, as they interfere together.

These devices are global and their effect does not get stronger with quantity.
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2 months ago
I have more ideas.
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2 months ago
day night cycle was a modoption from BA and even so far back as a mod for TA .. but i believe it did survive as broken and semi functional thing for TECKA and ZK atleast at first.. i dont think it works anymore but if it did it would be described as an enviromental modification or atmospheric but not terraform as its mostly cosmetic changes.

the reduced sight ranges is already a mod i made so your welcome to try it but its not recommended.

something i do want is a chance to place terraform prefabs.. so you design on flat ground a terraform structure and can clone it.. with a small booklet of the blue-prints you made..

but my skills to program are very poor

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some basic blocs, like to protect mexes, holes...
some ramps. just click and use.

A ramp computation that can be used to calculate the lauch angle of newtons...

Automate mexbuilding with walls and energy
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2 months ago
BRrankmuffa I think a lot of those exist in the base UI.
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59 days ago
some, but what i wish is something that save the config of the tool.
like, i do a lot of walls around mexes.

Or sometimes i want to build a plataform and put somthing over it, like a radar...
I think this one existed before: click and hold for a while then a terraform box shows under the contruction... kindof

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59 days ago
BRrankmuffa

While in game:

F10 (menu) -> Settings -> Interface -> Commands

Make sure the following two are checked:
Area Mex
Area Terra Mex

Now select a constructor or commander. On their commnad card there should be a button for Area Terra Mex (shortcut ALT+W).
Click and drag to expand a circle and select at least one metal spot. The con should walk to it, build it and make a small wall around it.

Just be careful issuing this command to a group of cons. If there are too many, they'll push each other onto the terra area and will trap themselves building the wall around the mex. This shouldn't happen if you only have 2-3 selected.


To build something on a platform of the exact size of the building, let's say a Gauss (but it could be anything):

Select a con
Press C (defense tab)
Press T (gauss turret)
Before placing the turret, move the mouse where you want it to be, hold ALT and use mousewheel to adjust the height
The con will terra the necessary tower (or dig) and then make the building


No need to save presets for single buildings. There's a shortcut for it somehow.
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58 days ago
thanks!
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29 days ago
Terraforming Tool II

Hellfire + Undead

One terraformation tool covers everything in fire, favoring expensive prebuilt units. The strength of fire cycles between high and low.

The other revives units.

If both devices are built together, they conflict with each others, creating a natural day & night cycle.
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18 days ago
Terraforming tool III:
One that raises sea level temporarily
One that makes units regenerate in a big radius (LAZAURUS SUPERWEAPON)
One that makes air more flammable (Excluding the other fire superweapon)
One that summons storms over a random area
One that causes robots to freeze (the zero-kelvinator)
One that destroys mex spots
Just units that can make or break giant landmarks

Some preexisting terraforming tools that are rarely appreciated:
Placeholder
Pyro (leaves things ablaze)
Dirtbag
Quake missile from missile silos
Lobster.
2 out of 3 superweapons
Funnelweb
Hercules & Charon (ship transports with forgotten names)
Krow (legally 'flying city...' or fortress, fair)
Newton (it counts.)
Tremor
Badger
Firewall
Djin
Moderator? (makes an area... 'unpassable')
Faraday? (Slows... down... enemies?)
Cerberus? (Treated as a landmark)
Pylons?
Bertha is excluded because it's... not... It should be included, honestly.
NUKES (makes the world paranoid)

And

Solar collector forests.

Furthermore, many riots can break terraform walls. Did you know that?
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