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Minefield

Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 2:05 pm
by Aza-Industries
Not sure if anyone else has suggested this, I did a simple search nothing showed up.
Anywho..

I think it would be a neat and simple feature to implement if we could designate an area as a minefield.
And logistic bots would take land mines from provider/storage chests and fill the area, and replace them when they get destroyed.

Re: Minefield

Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 3:00 pm
by kovarex
This is nice idea, automation ftw :)

Re: Minefield

Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 7:25 pm
by MF-
I would be afraid of losing my bots..

perhaps in connection to the "radar could be connected to circuit network" idea it might work safely :)

Re: Minefield

Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 9:21 pm
by Dakkanor
MF- wrote:I would be afraid of losing my bots..

perhaps in connection to the "radar could be connected to circuit network" idea it might work safely :)
or run on a signal, i.e. after minefield is used the player can see if its still dangeous and then give a "reset fields" signal to the bots

Re: Minefield

Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 8:34 am
by MF-
Dakkanor wrote: or run on a signal, i.e. after minefield is used the player can see if its still dangeous and then give a "reset fields" signal to the bots
You can easily do that with existing network mechanics by supplying the mines into the provider chest when the robots are supposed to run and removing afterwards.

Re: Minefield

Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 11:14 am
by rk84
I tried to make cluster mines that spawn more cluster mines on explosion, but mine explosion did not count as dead event. aawww
I get free minefield though, if I shoot them with my gun.

Re: Minefield

Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 2:16 pm
by Mysteria9
I love the idea!
I'd be happy if a specific "mine layer bot" would do the work though.

Re: Minefield

Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2013 1:49 am
by Dakkanor
rk84 wrote:I tried to make cluster mines that spawn more cluster mines on explosion, but mine explosion did not count as dead event. aawww
I get free minefield though, if I shoot them with my gun.
thats pretty cool, quick launch minefield.
what about a special mine that spawns several mines around it on placement?

Re: Minefield

Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2013 8:08 am
by rk84
Dakkanor wrote:thats pretty cool, quick launch minefield.
what about a special mine that spawns several mines around it on placement?
Yea that will make more sense then shootable mines :lol:

I got another idea too. One mine usually kills one creeper, but I could make bait to draw more creepers around before spawning mines. Bait could be moving unit (suicide unit) or unmoving trap (fake turret).

Re: Minefield

Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2013 8:44 am
by Dakkanor
rk84 wrote:
Dakkanor wrote:thats pretty cool, quick launch minefield.
what about a special mine that spawns several mines around it on placement?
Yea that will make more sense then shootable mines :lol:

I got another idea too. One mine usually kills one creeper, but I could make bait to draw more creepers around before spawning mines. Bait could be moving unit (suicide unit) or unmoving trap (fake turret).
scarecrow decoy?

i'd also like some kind of time delayed mine which would be able to catch more creepers at once...

Re: Minefield

Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2013 1:06 pm
by Aza-Industries
Well.. mines are pretty cheap I think the 1x1 ratio is alright. My main defense would always be the turrets. Mines are more for thinning the hoard.

Re: Minefield

Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 11:37 am
by armagone
I love mines, they're easy to craft, and really useful but there's only two cons for me : they stack only by 16 and when there is a lot of creepers, they're not efficient enough to blow a lot of them.
The idea of a minefield is great, putting a lot of mine in one shot is good !
But, my whish is here, do you think we can have reusable mine? Or small turrets, undetectable by creepers. My idea is driven by the widow mine from Starcraft 2. For those who doesn't know, it's a mine (Oo) which launch rockets, but when it's burried it's undetectable.

Re: Minefield

Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 6:30 pm
by MF-
armagone wrote:I love mines, they're easy to craft, and really useful but there's only two cons for me : they stack only by 16 and when there is a lot of creepers, they're not efficient enough to blow a lot of them.
The idea of a minefield is great, putting a lot of mine in one shot is good !
But, my whish is here, do you think we can have reusable mine? Or small turrets, undetectable by creepers. My idea is driven by the widow mine from Starcraft 2. For those who doesn't know, it's a mine (Oo) which launch rockets, but when it's burried it's undetectable.
Oh, mines are cheap? I though they use flamethrower ammo (and thus a quantity of steel)
But perhaps I missed some little "100x" in the recipe name...

Re: Minefield

Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 11:50 pm
by Aza-Industries
MF- wrote:
armagone wrote:I love mines, they're easy to craft, and really useful but there's only two cons for me : they stack only by 16 and when there is a lot of creepers, they're not efficient enough to blow a lot of them.
The idea of a minefield is great, putting a lot of mine in one shot is good !
But, my whish is here, do you think we can have reusable mine? Or small turrets, undetectable by creepers. My idea is driven by the widow mine from Starcraft 2. For those who doesn't know, it's a mine (Oo) which launch rockets, but when it's burried it's undetectable.
Oh, mines are cheap? I though they use flamethrower ammo (and thus a quantity of steel)
But perhaps I missed some little "100x" in the recipe name...
They produce more then 1 at a time.

They don't use much steel, 6 gets you 4 mines which is only 24 iron = 6 iron per mine.
A small amount in comparison to many of the other later products which use lots of intermediate products, e,g. blue belts.

Coal doesn't get much use compared to other resources so it's not a big loss putting a small amount into mines.

But then.. all these resources could seem little to me because I mine more then my factory uses and the rest gets stored, at the moment I have about 1.4mil coal, and iron ore each.

Re: Minefield

Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 12:21 am
by FreeER
to be honest I have never once used the mines in an actual game...oh I've played with them in a couple custom scenarios but I've never considered them an effective weapon/deterrent to creepers for any extended amount of time. MAINLY because you'd have to replace them yourself, but also because mass producing ammo is easier and seems cheaper :D
I've been hoping that we'd get splash damage (AOE) and the mines would then be able to take out or severely injure small groups of creepers but... :(

Re: Minefield

Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 3:50 am
by Dakkanor
FreeER wrote:to be honest I have never once used the mines in an actual game...oh I've played with them in a couple custom scenarios but I've never considered them an effective weapon/deterrent to creepers for any extended amount of time. MAINLY because you'd have to replace them yourself, but also because mass producing ammo is easier and seems cheaper :D
I've been hoping that we'd get splash damage (AOE) and the mines would then be able to take out or severely injure small groups of creepers but... :(
what about modding the mines to produce flamethrower bursts moving out in all directions??

its partially solve the AOE while looking cool!
AND if you had dummy mines and a trigger mine you could spread the dummy mines around so they get blown up by the trigger, making a HUGE FIREBALL!!!!! :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

Re: Minefield

Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 4:10 am
by FreeER
Dakkanor wrote:what about modding the mines to produce flamethrower bursts moving out in all directions??
Only issue there is you can only put mines so close together then or the flames would destroy the nearby mines, if only we had a way to know what destroyed an entity, then I could probably do something like if entity.destroyed.by == flamethrower then create mine mine.detonate() or create flames around destroyed mine, or something or other. note I don't think the detonate method exists right now :(
Dakkanor wrote:AND if you had dummy mines and a trigger mine you could spread the dummy mines around so they get blown up by the trigger, making a HUGE FIREBALL!!!!! :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
Would be awesome, but I don't think trigger mines could actually be created, unless it was something like onentitykilled == triggermine then create mines all around it...

actually one of these might be possible :D Time for testing :lol:


edit:You know what, either I didn't experiment with these properly or they've been changed since I last looked...in 0.3.2 they have a damage_radius = 5, it's easy to bump this up and make them a bit more useful :) needs a better explosion graphic if they are going to have a larger range though...

Re: Minefield

Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 4:03 pm
by slpwnd
FreeER wrote:I've been hoping that we'd get splash damage (AOE) and the mines would then be able to take out or severely injure small groups of creepers but... :(
There will be some splash damage eventually. We are aware that the fight is really poor at the moment. First things first :)

Re: Minefield

Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 10:38 pm
by Cordylus
Necromancy

Implemented in 0.8.6