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I like the idea, but I worry it would basically become pretty much as effective as an advanced radar for most uses, for less cost. I mean, even if the sector is very narrow, all you'd really need to do is sweep it across the front line depending on where you need to look at the moment. It's now adding micro but probably not a great deal of fun, for the cost saving of maybe a single mid-sized unit.
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I like the idea, but I worry it would basically become pretty much as effective as an advanced radar for most uses, for less cost. I mean, even if the sector is very narrow, all you'd really need to do is sweep it across the front line depending on where you need to look at the moment. It's now adding micro but probably not a great deal of fun, for the cost saving of maybe a single mid-sized unit.
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There aren't that many times when you need more radar coverage over in your side of the map once you've established a front line. Occasionally, yes, and in those times an advanced radar that hasn't been killed yet will fill in those holes - but a couple of standard radars could also do that.
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There aren't that many times when you need more radar coverage over in your side of the map once you've established a front line. Occasionally, yes, and in those times an advanced radar that hasn't been killed yet will fill in those holes - but a couple of standard radars could also do that.
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If we're going to do something as an additional information structure, I think I'd prefer a telescope. Build it somewhere, select a single point it can reach in line of sight, and it will then provide a vision radius around that point. Ideally, this should also indicate to the opponent that this area is now visually observed.
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If we're going to do something as an additional information structure, I think I'd prefer a telescope. Build it somewhere, select a single point it can reach in line of sight, and it will then provide a vision radius around that point. Ideally, this should also indicate to the opponent that this area is now visually observed.
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I
would
imagine
the
easiest
way
to
do
this
is
have
the
telescope
be
able
to
once-off
construct
a
unit
(
like
the
Djinn
lamp)
which
is
untargetable
and
has
no
size,
but
is
still
visible
to
the
opponent
and
grants
vision
in
a
radius.
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I
would
imagine
the
easiest
way
to
do
this
is
have
the
telescope
be
able
to
once-off
construct
a
unit
(
like
the
Djinn
lamp)
which
is
untargetable
and
has
no
physical
presence,
but
is
still
visible
to
the
opponent
and
grants
vision
in
a
radius.
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If necesary, some sort of check could be done every few seconds to see if the original telescope still has no terrain interrupting its line of sight to the vision point, and if it does, the vision point... changes colour and stops providing sight? Stays around until the telescope itself is destroyed, though, in case the land is terraformed back down or whatever.
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If necesary, some sort of check could be done every few seconds to see if the original telescope still has no terrain interrupting its line of sight to the vision point, and if it does, the vision point... changes colour and stops providing sight? Stays around until the telescope itself is destroyed, though, in case the land is terraformed back down or whatever.
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This would be an excellent anti-defense structure as it enables better information and targetting of fixed defenses, but it's quite counterable as you know it's happening (justify as lens glint or optical tracking or whatever, it's high tech!).
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This would be an excellent anti-defense structure as it enables better information and targetting of fixed defenses, but it's quite counterable as you know it's happening (justify as lens glint or optical tracking or whatever, it's high tech!).
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I would imagine it might have some uses in monitoring an otherwise undefended area too, in case radar-jammed things are trying to sneak through. Cloakers still defeat it obviously, which is fine.
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I would imagine it might have some uses in monitoring an otherwise undefended area too, in case radar-jammed things are trying to sneak through. Cloakers still defeat it obviously, which is fine.
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Aimable advanced radar?