[WIP] The Realm Community Balance Mod

As I have stated before: why not move spinner to T2 and change it to Mobile flak that shoots down tactical missiles as well as air. Also changing the T2 bomber to what it is in the PTE sounds better to me than a single powerful bomb. As for napalm: I wouldn't mind if T1 had that in it's bombs (but then bombs shouldn't do AOE).

But then veh wouldn't have a counter to air at T1.

Maybe make skitters better at AA. This would make them more useful after initial expansion.

Then Skitters are too powerful in the early game as a total counter to air play AND it punishes the usual quick expand to the other side of the planet that "Air first" entails. Skitters would stop being powerful and just become the default opening for any matchup in which you identify your opponent has gone Air. Sorry, but I'm not willing to force that.

Also, the Spinner clearly has missiles as part of its model. Wysiwyg is very important and we're not at the stage where it's possible to add new unit models, textures and so on. Spinner-as-Flak is a no-go.

Could you please use ZIP format for your releases ? (and don't store previous ones in your repo ?).

I imagine something like that might happen in the future, however its still very much a WIP. They are not really releasing the mod, but just letting people test it out.

WinRar is also free and easy to use. Honestly, there shouldn't be a PC without WinRar.

See this entire discussion of RAR vs ZIP in the custom skybox thread before it starts up again here.
In any case, all of the PAMM's only work with ZIP files, so there's that.

Didn't use winrar for more than 6 years now. 7z for efficient compression, zip for compatibility. And 7z tool (free & opensource) can read rar archives as well if needed.

But it was not the issue of my request, I wanted to add your release, even a prerealease, to the new servermods.json for testing, but there was no distribution option available : I can't uncompress rar from a javascript based tool, and your git repository is a bit messy with those old releases inside. That's all, no worry

Sigh, then we'll work on it as soon as we're ready to call this more than a pre-release.

There shouldn't be a single PC WITH WinRar. It's a proprietary format which only WinRar can create. There is no possibility to create or modify rar archives on other platforms, unless using precompiled binaries from shady origins. (And yes: I'm counting the rar inventor as shady.)

Besides: Compression ratio and compression speed of the rar format is subpar when compared to the standarized alternatives.

I like turtles.

You can take my .Rars when you pry them from my cold, dead hands.

lol, I think you mean .rar support and what you're looking for is called linux. there also shouldn't be a PC with no stock desktop switcher and multiple security loopholes as well as countless bugs and UI logic querks but hey I guess that's the system that if sold could make you the richest man in the world.

I cannot WAIT for Google or Steam or somebody to show the world they mean business and end Dos based-OSes for good by putting their skinned linux on the throne of the most used/sold OS in the world.

people would finally have a good reason to stop coding for windows and start making software for linux instead.

I think the only ones who are standing in the way of this are the security agencies because that signifies a potential complete lockdown of all people's information they currently have access to.

That escalated quickly...

No one wants your .rars.
/obviousjib

And I still like turtles.

Question: what's the intended use of Hornets and Gunships? Because to me they feel like they do the same job a bit differently: Sniping. Hornets drop a single heavy bomb and fly away and Kestrels unload a stupid amount of DPS in a burst.

The uni's WiFi is so dodgy and my phone is derp. Sry for double post.

The gunship has a significant first strike and then a low sustainable dps. The idea is to encourage raiding and hit-and-run styles of play.