Currently sparkies have equal GuardScanRadius (GSR) to engineers, which results in sparkies being worse at reclaiming when attack moving or patrolling when enemies are nearby.

Guard scan radius is the distance a unit will initiate pursuit of enemies/reclaim from their patrol or attack move route. Its the reason why when you give an attack move engys may run backwards to get the trees behind them or branch off to get reclaim adjacent to the route.

The issue with Sparkies and having an equivalent GSR to engys is that, the sparky will switch from reclaim mode, to attack mode. Once an enemy enters the 26 radius, and the sparky is not actively sucking up a prop for reclaim, it will beeline for the enemy to engage in combat and stop reclaiming.

Reducing the GSR to 8, is a trade off, that makes the unit require more precision in patrol and A-move orders, but will not enter pursuit mode until a unit gets within 8 range.

This leaves a nice 8-18 range where the sparky will defend itself from enemies while still reclaiming.

The change makes sparkies worse at reclaiming uncontested, and with imprecise orders. Yet better at reclaiming when a enemies or engys are within 26-8 distance of it.

Video of default 26 GSR

Video of 8 GSR

Anti-Torps on subs is not a fun, engaging or decisive game mechanic. It would be like if T3 air had "aa defense-flares" which let them ignore a SAM, T3AA or cruiser missile every 2 seconds.

A unit is in a domain that only three (and a half) weapons can damage it- torpedos, depth charges, reclaim and ground fire.

Of those four torpedo's is infinitely more prevalent and less micro intensive. Torp bombers should drop depth charges that are immune to torpedo defense like they did for years.

Torpedo defense belongs on destroyers and torpedo boats.

@BlackJaguar This is frankly the only right answer. ACUs, GC & Salem are the poster children of the franchise.

This looks tremendous. Please offer them in 1440p and 4k friendly sizes! I know there is a console command/setting to scale the icons, but that tends to distort them.

I'm not sure if you can disable GSR.
But a super low GSR they will literally only reclaim things on the line of the attack move.

GSR set to 2

This is amazing

Disabling resource sharing piecemeal seems legitimate, not sure why it was removed. I want all my overflow to go to a friend, that seems reasonable to have control over.

#7188

TLDR: T3 MArty goes from being 200% mass cost and 179% build time of a Spearhead. To 150% mass cost and build time of a Spearhead.

T3 mobile arty:

• 800->720M
• 8000->7200E
• 4300->3600BT

Spearhead:

• 400->480M
• 3000->3600E

Both units now have a 18m/s drain from a T3 factory.
T3 MArty completes construction in 40 seconds instead of 47.78 seconds. Another way to look at it:

Reduce T3 MArty cost by 10%.
Reduce T3 MArty BT by 16.3%
Increase Spearhead Cost by 20%.

I'm a neophyte but working on tutorials:

Creator	Description	Link
Cheese's Cheese FAF	Tutorials, Tricks. Focus on math.	https://www.youtube.com/@CheesesCheeseFAF