Trying to make a dropship reinforcement superweapon.

KanoYugoro · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 12 Nov 2010

I was trying to make a dropship reinforcement superweapon by using buildings and freeunits, but it didn't work as I wanted it.

This was how it was going to work.

Building A is bought and placed, it gives a freeunit of a Titan, and its buildup looks like a dropship flying in.
Building A has a weapon with range of 1 and guardrange of 255, forcing it to move away to attack, thus undeploying the building.
Building A undeploys into unit A, which has a weapon with a range of 255, deploytofire=true, and deploys into Building B.
Building B has a freeunit of a Wolverine.

Wash, rinse, repeat this process until I got to 5 free units, and then deploying into one final building which is the dropship flying away. However, the initial building just undeployed into nothing, and if I spawned any of the intermediate units, they didn't deploy automatically. I checked and all of the units were declared properly and they deployed into the right buildings, but it still didn't work.

Is this idea feasible or even possible?

Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

KanoYugoro wrote:

the initial building just undeployed into nothing

Give it one of the deployer keys like TickTank=yes, IsJuggernaut=yes or Artillary=yes etc.

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KanoYugoro · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 12 Nov 2010

Well, the whole undeploy-deploy-undeploy chain works now, but is there any way to get it to do it automatically?

Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

Afaik no. I've tried this long ago too, to create a visceroid that deploys into dummy buildings to spawn other mutants, but couldn't get this work.

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KanoYugoro · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 12 Nov 2010

Darn.

Maybe UndeployWhenConstructed and DeployWhenSpawned would make good tags for HyperPatch.
Then again, I don't want to bug Hyper. I know he has a lot of work to do anyway.

Thanks again for your help LKO. I appreciate it.

CCHyper · Defense Minister **Joined**: 07 Apr 2005

Always feel free to post requests, things like this could turn out to be pretty simple.

KanoYugoro · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 12 Nov 2010

Alright. I'll post them in your suggestions topic.