Spaced-out Defence Towers I don't like how close defence tower are when we drag them, it's a total overkill, a waste of resources and I always cry when I see the uber devs do it in their livestreams. This feature has the potential to be very useful to draw long line of turrets without investing a ton of metal to defence a small area. This is why I modified defence tower's json files and added "area_build_separation":15. It may be too low, give me your feedback about this. The modified files are the following: Single Laser Tower Double Laser Tower Triple Laser Tower Pelter Holkins Flak Catapult Umbrella For an unknown reason, basic anti-air towers don't want to change but I still added its modified file. No more of this!
This is effing brilliant! I don't know about needing it on high-cost buildings like catapult and holkins though. Or even pelter. Reason being these are not defensive perimeter buildings. They are actually high priority buildings that I would either be clumping or only ever making one. In either case I'll be quite careful about how I place them. I would keep it on the pelter, on second thought: it makes for a really quick automatic pelter creep. Also I bet the single laser tower could use a smaller separation, as they are rather weak and I only ever make them with the Commander (and he's pretty quick about putting them up) Needs more testing to see if the Flak separation is ideal. I would want a line of my Flaks to completely deny air units from passing over, and it may be the case that a fully dense line of them is required to do this. What I do know is that the large separation as you show may be insufficient against a large formation of aircraft.
This is a nice temporary fix. I've made a UI suggestion before that would allow us to manually, on the fly, adjust the spacing of turrets, and all buildings. I really hope it gets implemented. In the meantime. This is nice. Thanks!
This is good. I think it would be a nice idea to adjust the spacing for each turret, just enough so that each turret can protect it's neighbours. edit: which would be weird, or genius, for holkins and catapults
Small update 1.1 Changed the separation value to 25, 15 was still too low Removed Holkins and Catapult changes T1 Anti air turrets changes still don't work
Forum Link is wrong can we please please find a way for air turrets to play nice? I really like this mod and I keep making the mistake of assuming it's going to work for air turrets as soon as I get used to doing it with land.
Little update sphere spacing for umbrellas. I made this change weeks ago but i didn't update it. There are changes to turret, umbrella and anti-nuke spacings in the PTE. The mod will soon be unnecessary and be incorporated to vanilla.
