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Could we please get a Speed Modifier that affects Enemy units.
It appears that "walking_speed_modifier" only affects the player.

Thanks.

You can write speed to individual units directly, which is a lot more powerful in any case

Is this the one having to do with terrain? Like making terrain that slows enemies?

Because if so, that would be a poor solution, having to pick every enemy and check the terrain they are on.

Ranakastrasz wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 12, 2019 5:53 pm

Is this the one having to do with terrain? Like making terrain that slows enemies?

Because if so, that would be a poor solution, having to pick every enemy and check the terrain they are on.

There is a flag for units being affected by tiles, `affected_by_tiles`. It defaults to false.

Klonan wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 12, 2019 6:34 pm

Ranakastrasz wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 12, 2019 5:53 pm

Is this the one having to do with terrain? Like making terrain that slows enemies?

Because if so, that would be a poor solution, having to pick every enemy and check the terrain they are on.

There is a flag for units being affected by tiles, `affected_by_tiles`. It defaults to false.

The followthrough, I guess, is how you can make tiles that let you build terrain that you move faster on, and enemies move slower on, or vice versa.

Ranakastrasz wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 12, 2019 7:06 pm

Klonan wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 12, 2019 6:34 pm

Ranakastrasz wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 12, 2019 5:53 pm

Is this the one having to do with terrain? Like making terrain that slows enemies?

Because if so, that would be a poor solution, having to pick every enemy and check the terrain they are on.

There is a flag for units being affected by tiles, `affected_by_tiles`. It defaults to false.

The followthrough, I guess, is how you can make tiles that let you build terrain that you move faster on, and enemies move slower on, or vice versa.

Correct, it would be nice to be able to crate a terrain type that will slow down enemy units, but not the player.
It would be good if it could affect by force, so you can slow enemy force and speed up player force.

TheSAguy wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 12, 2019 7:21 pm

Correct, it would be nice to be able to crate a terrain type that will slow down enemy units, but not the player.
It would be good if it could affect by force, so you can slow enemy force and speed up player force.

Closest mechanic I've seen is a modified landmine, which was basically barbed wire. Had the slowdown capsule effect and damage when it went off, and didn't take damage itself. But obviously that would be inefficient for such purposes.

As for terrain to slow biters, I think grating would work. I seem to recall it being used to stop cowses from leaving an area, but letting people walk over it fine. Not sure though.

In any case, being able to make shallow water slow players and biters, while concrete only speeds up the player, tank, etc, and biter bases can spread "Totally not Creep from Starcraft" to speed themselves up, would all be quite nice usage of the requested API.

I think if we were to look into some sort of Unit based expansion or spin-off... we would consider such additions

For now, from what I see, filtering based on unit type or tile type, is at about 'Not impossible' in the range of easy to impossible.

One major point, is that tiles don't have force, and probably never will. So something like creep only affecting friendly units, probably won't ever be possible.

Klonan wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 12, 2019 8:00 pm

I think if we were to look into some sort of Unit based expansion or spin-off... we would consider such additions

For now, from what I see, filtering based on unit type or tile type, is at about 'Not impossible' in the range of easy to impossible.

One major point, is that tiles don't have force, and probably never will. So something like creep only affecting friendly units, probably won't ever be possible.

Not a big deal. Just allow speed modifiers by entity type, and have entities have speed modifier... modifiers... Like tanks do.

As a side note, Creep in Starcraft isn't owned by any player, it effects all zerg units equally.