Combat System
- Thread starter Wiggles
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Ya, a guys been attacking me at 3AM
Basically the way it works is when you have your mech built you can choose what it will carry. For example with the raptors you can carry 5 light machine guns or 5 light transport platforms, or any combination of those that equals 5. That is because the equipment capacity of the raptor is 50, and each light machine gun or light transport platform takes up 10 units of capacity.
Now when you click on a slot on your mech to put a machine gun or platform on it, you can decide how many pieces of that equipment you'd like on the mech. When you hit update it only saves those slots for you, there won't be any equipment on the mech, it is just telling you how much space is reserved for the equipment you chose.
Lets say I want to put 3 light machine guns and 2 light transport platforms on my raptor. I would click on the raptor and then set those values. Then I would have to go to my armory, and build 3 light machine guns and 2 light transport platforms. Or a quicker way to do it is once you hit update showing what you will be putting on the mech, there is a button called "produce missing equipment." If you hit that, it will build everything you are missing for you. Once you have everything built, then you have to go to your mech, and hit re-arm. This actually puts your equipment on the mech. Once it is finished re-arming, you are ready to go!
Now when you click on a slot on your mech to put a machine gun or platform on it, you can decide how many pieces of that equipment you'd like on the mech. When you hit update it only saves those slots for you, there won't be any equipment on the mech, it is just telling you how much space is reserved for the equipment you chose.
Lets say I want to put 3 light machine guns and 2 light transport platforms on my raptor. I would click on the raptor and then set those values. Then I would have to go to my armory, and build 3 light machine guns and 2 light transport platforms. Or a quicker way to do it is once you hit update showing what you will be putting on the mech, there is a button called "produce missing equipment." If you hit that, it will build everything you are missing for you. Once you have everything built, then you have to go to your mech, and hit re-arm. This actually puts your equipment on the mech. Once it is finished re-arming, you are ready to go!
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Good job Kolak!
Wiggles, what do you think was unclear in the mech manual? We put them up there to answer these kind of questions and if we need to fix them then please let us know what confused you. This is a perfect case of evaluation, we know the game very well so we sometimes omit obvious (to us) things. Yet someone who plays first time might be confused or lack content...
Wiggles, what do you think was unclear in the mech manual? We put them up there to answer these kind of questions and if we need to fix them then please let us know what confused you. This is a perfect case of evaluation, we know the game very well so we sometimes omit obvious (to us) things. Yet someone who plays first time might be confused or lack content...
I under stand the original re-arming that kolak explained but what I'm having trouble understanding is assigning my mechs to a task like defending my town or attacking others. I've signed up for the forums today and all threads concerning combat are just explaining how to configure them. If i could get info about this then i can check my theories about what exactly re-arming does.
P.S What does the Overview screen visibility mean in the use credits page menu.
P.S What does the Overview screen visibility mean in the use credits page menu.
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Well, your mechs that are in your town are automatically defending it. There is nothing you need to do for that, but if you want them to defend a friend, you must click your friends base on the map, and click "send mission" and instead of having them attack, choose the button for move. They'll move to that position and defend it. Now to attack a position, do the same exact thing, click the base you wish to attack on the map, click "send mission," make sure the attack button is highlighted, then click send.
Ditto on the overview screen visibility thing. Is it just a more consolidated screen that shows you everything you need to know? (ex. resources, mechs, etc.)
Ditto on the overview screen visibility thing. Is it just a more consolidated screen that shows you everything you need to know? (ex. resources, mechs, etc.)
Currently, no, if u want to save your mechs i would send them away right before you get attacked. If the attack is 2 hours out, send them somewhere that will take them about 2 and a half hours to go there and back. If the attacks happen while you are sleeping then right before you go to bed figure out about how many hours you are going to sleep, then find a city to attack that will take about half of your sleep time to get there (pick a weak city that has no mechs lol), by the time your mech gets back you will be awake and even if someone attacked you, they wont destroy your mechs. To figure out how long it will take your mech to get there go to your map and find a city. Move your mouse over the city and at the bottom left hand corner it will say "dist. 54.52" for example. To figure out how long it will take for you mech to get there, find your mech's speed then take the distance and divide it by your mech's speed. So if I had a Puma, his speed is 15, so I would take 54.52 and divide it by 15 to get 3.63 hours. Please note that if you send your mechs in a group, they will travel at the speed of the slowest mech, so if you have a Puma and a Raptor, they will travel at a speed of 10, because that's the raptors speed.
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The Overview screen is useful when you have more than one city. It gives you a nicer, more organized view of what you have and where + ability to transfer and move stuff around with fewer clicks
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