Emergency Anti-Nuke

Were they your fireflies? Was it your nuke? Did it clip through them or simply miss?

I had enough fireflies that if it missed them, it got insanely lucky. I shall test again.

But whose nuke was it?

I love nukes

My nuke.

Maybe it doesn't work with friendly fire?

Err.. yes that was my entire point earlier in the thread? The nuke won't detonate on friendly units. So the units have to be unfriendly.

if that worked, it wouldn't be optional.

it would be very mandatory. It would be optional if losing was your option. Itsa nuke ffs...

I mean, its optional for you not to use air against an air only opponent. Go ahead and tell me the other winning option though.

Have a chance of deflecting a nuke at the cost of your entire air force. Sounds fair to me. It was possible in SupCom but how often did you see it happen?

PA is not a game of chance but a game of choice. Mod material, I say.

This is not a major gameplay element, this is a "holy bagelburgers what do I do!?" last-minute desperate attempt which will very probably not work. It's like trying to take down the Death Star with two Y-wings. Sure, it might work, but there's an overwhelming probability it won't. But since the stakes are so high, you might as well try. Like I said, this is entirely possible in SupCom, but you never saw other players try because the odds of success was so low and it was more important to keep your air force intact.

Then why is there accuracy involved? Why does micro help you come out on top in a battle?

The nuke might have been a desperation move in and of itself - a last ditch attempt upon discovering that you have no anti-nuke coverage around your commander.
I don' see no reason why you should be given the chance to have your behind saved by a myriad of scouts swarming over your base in such a case.
If you are arguing in favor of total simulation I want you to remember that this would then include friendly fire and damaging collisions as well. I don't think we want to tread that path.

Micro is not chance but simply more decisions. Not microing is the decision to focus efforts on something more worthwhile.

This was all entirely possible in SupCom. But it was almost never used. I don't see it becoming an issue.

If it isn't being used but would become an issue if it were - why keep it?

By microing you're taking advantage of accuracy parameters and formulas written into a units specs. For example if I move my units while attacking, I increase the chance that projectiles miss. If I wish to micro my air units for the hope of a rare event such as to intercept and block a nuke that should be as legitimate as the former instance of manipulation.

It wouldn't be an issue. Assuming it works, you lose your entire air force. That's not something you want happening if the enemy is shooting nukes. I'm willing to bet some ground structures would still be damaged too.

Depending on the cost of nukes and the expended airforce that might favour one side or the other. Apart from the reliability issue that I have with this there is another factor to consider that has been mentioned before: Given the flight altitude of air units and the explosion radius of nukes wouldn't it be in the realm of the possible for the nuke to also affect the ground albeit smaller in radius? Which would invalidate or at least be detrimental to the whole sacrifice thing.
On a different note: What about gunships? They can hover and are thus far more reliable in intercepting projectiles. One could easily deploy large screens of them to shield against projectiles with trajectories akin to nukes. Not so fond about that thought, I have to admit.

This doesn't seem to work. Just did some testing. This didn't do anything:



It went straight through.