Better Carriers - Carrier Overhual
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Vanilla Carriers aren't very useful.
Now each carrier comes with their own combat air patrol complement, 10 of each: T3 Spy plane, T3 Strat Bomber, T3 Torp bomber and T3 Gunship. Atlantis gets 15 of each.
These aircraft will automatically engage targets in range (300). They cost 66% less to rebuilt, but are slaved to their carriers.
Carriers are 2x as expensive.
Added a Seraphim T3 Heavy Gunship
Mod support:
Optional Addon, comes in either vanilla or blackops version:
CZAR gets 15 Restorers.
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Interesting idea. Are the units included in the construction of the unit itself, or are they built on the aircraft carrier after a certain amount of time?
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The first set is free, the replacements are built in a separate build queue
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It's cool but clearly too powerful if you look at the unit mass costs (8k mass carrier coming with a free
10 * (1750+1500+195+1650)mass of units + no massive aircraft energy cost). I would turn down the initial numbers even if not aiming for a well-balanced, modded game. -
@d4rkstalker A little feedback on your mod:
Overall, I think it's very well made and a really good idea
However, I would recommend merging the units where only the scripts and blueprints have been modified. This would make them more compatible with other mods. There are plenty of examples of this approach in other mods.Regarding the number of support aircraft, I think you've chosen a bit too many. Especially T3 bombers are too valuable to simply be given out like that. The same applies to the Gunships.
You could replace these two types of units with T2 versions instead. That would make the support a little less powerful while still keeping it useful.
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Update:
-Swapped to use bp hooking for the carriers
-Carriers no longer start with pre-built strike wings (carriers will need ~10 mins to fully launch their strike complement)
-Icons for the vanilla aircraft drones
-Script refactoring + external factory bugfixes@Saver
Thanks for trying and feedback!Imo using fully T2 units wouldn't do much in the T3 late game when everyone has cruisers and ASF swarms. Hopefully removing the starting set of strikecraft would make it feel more balanced
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Hi,
great job with the quick adjustments! Regarding your comment about T3 Air: I was specifically referring to the T3 Bombers and T3 Gunships. If those units aren't available for the respective faction, then you could reduce the number of them accordingly.
But whether you want to do that, and how, is completely up to you.
I might get back to you once I've done another test.
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I have not tried it but by "slaved to their carriers" what does that entail? AI control only? limited radius from carrier?, Dies when carrier dies?
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