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UnitModification

NOTE: unit modification has already been committed to CVS.

Boson unit modification

Main goals:

• Reduce cluttering of units by making their ranges bigger
• Also discourage attacking using tens of units in a tight groups by making weapon damage ranges bigger -> if weapon detonates/hits, it's likely to take out/damage nearby units too
• Give bigger importance to a single unit (e.g. weapons are more powerful - you need less shots to blow up enemy unit)
• Make Boson more realistic (and fun too) by increasing ranges

Things needed:

• Another powerful turret model (or artillery model)
• Effects
• Fine tuning

Problems so far:

• Boson gets slow with big unit ranges (probably because of unitsInRange() checks, although I haven't profiled).
  Perhaps we could use the sectors once proposed to fix that?

Units

Descriptions of (most) units:

• Air turret - DELETE!!! It has no use anymore since samsite is very powerful now.
• Sam site - sam-site is now powerful.
  Uses guided missiles which can take down most incoming aircrafts with a single shot before they can get close enough to shoot at the sam-site.
  • Maybe increase it's range even more?
• Turret - turret is the main ground defense unit. It has long range and big damage.
  For most units, one direct hit is enough to blow them up.
  • Need another (heavy) turret. Then we'd have heavy long-range turret and smaller short-range one.
• Ferry - light water unit. Quite fast though.
  Has a not-too-lethal cannon.
  • TODO: use for transport
• Grizzly - fires rockets.
  Quite effective against ground units, not very effective against air units.
• Koyote - the heaviest helicopter unit. It has some armor and quite a lot of health.
  Has missiles (against both land and air units) and a short-range heavy cannon against ground units.
• Leopard - the heaviest ground unit. Has lots of armor, making it almost invulnerable to cannon fire and quite a lot of health. Slower than (many) other ground units though.
  Has a heavy turret capable of killing some ground units with a single shot.
• Panther - light armored vehicle. Has very basic armor and little hitpoints but is also quite cheap.
  Has a cannon.
  • TODO: use it as a transport for soldiers.
• Piranha - minelayer. Slow, not much armor.
• Puma - fast helicopter. Light, not much health. Can be used to provide some cover for land units.
  Has a light cannon for ground units and rockets for air units.
• Ship - Heavy water unit. Slow but has lots of health.
  Has a powerful cannon.
• Tiger - mobile radar system. Has very big sight range (bigger than any other mobile unit).
  Has a powerful but slow cannon against land units.
• Tornado - fast air unit. Not very much armor, mediocre health, but very fast.
  Has a very light cannon against land units and rockets against air ones.
• Transall - big transport aircraft, medium speed.
  Has a very powerful daisycutter bomb
  • TODO: use for transport
• Warthog - quite fast jet. Light armor, medium health.
  Uses powerful rockets against ground units and a cannon against air ones.
• Wolf - fast ground unit, not much firepower but is fast and can be used for recon missions, cheap.
  Has a (quite slow) cannon.