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[quote="chlue"]Hello,

I currently play with mocombat_0.3.92.zip in a multiplayer game and want to give some feedback what we have experienced so far:


Tesla Tower:
Yesterday we experienced the destructive power of the tesla turret. So far friendly fire resulted in the loss of: 2 tanks, 2 gates and one player
I guess friendly fire for this turret is completely fine and adds some way to balance this otherwise overpowered beast, but I think some additional resistances should be in order. I propose something this:
- tank and gates: complete immunity
- car: something like 50%
- player armor: basic armor nothing but with the modular ones some resistance would be nice (50% --> 65% --> 75%?). If I can put a force field in my armor I should have reduced dmg from a lightning strike, too.


Spitter Splash damage:
While I really like that they do aoe dmg it's a bit unfortunate that they take out the power poles faster than the towers. My proposal here is to reduce the aoe range such that at least for the small and medium ones a medium power pole could be placed in safe distance of the splash dmg.


Rescue ranger vs laser-rifle:
The rescue ranger seems a bit overpowered. The ammunition is surely quiet expensive, but with a range of 40 and 40dmg/shot @ 1.2 shot/s (--> 48dps) the laser-rifle comes out a bit weak (10 @ 3 --> 30dps). The laser-rifle can be upgraded and ammunition is cheaper, but it still feels a bit off for me. Especially given that the rescue ranger has a much higher range, too. Personally I tent to think that it would be more balanced if the rescue ranger would loose the ability to do dmg at all. On the other hand, why are the upgrades for the laser-rifle soo weak? I would have assumed that it follows the same pattern as the stock weapons, instead one only gets a 10% increase with each upgrade.


Attack drones:
I absolute didn't understood the behavior of the enhanced attack drones. We build some and placed a combat roboport in the base. The result was that the drones initially slowly cycled near the combat roboport but then they went on separate suicide missions quiet deep into the enemy territory (about the visible radar range away). Is this the expected behavior? Due to the dynamic expansion mod we have a lot of enemy bases quiet closely to our borders, but our expectations was more that they help us fight incoming enemy waves or at least go together to the same location and retreat once damaged.[/quote]