Infantry Pickup, Infantry as transports, and Grinder "Trade"

Jeffman12 · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 19 Jan 2004

I'm working on a little solo(Solo for the time being, of course) project at the moment. During a brainstorming session, approximately 2 minutes ago, I came to an idea inspired by Firestorm and Yuri's Revenge.

Can infantry transport units, if they can transport ore?

Can a transport be ordered to pickup a unit instead of the other way around?

If so:
Can you kidnap(Not mind control) enemy infantry this way?

And, can the Grinder act as a unit trade center instead of a refund?

I feel bad divulging my idea, but what I plan on doing with this, if you're wondering what I could possibly plan with all of this; Imagine someone playing as CABAL in a mod (Like so many mods before) but they are able to web, then kidnap enemy infantry, bring them back to base, and convert them to, or trade them for cyborgs by dumping them all in a Grinder-Esque structure.

MRMIdAS · Energy Commando **Joined**: 17 Jul 2008

no.

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Jeffman12 wrote:

Can a transport be ordered to pickup a unit instead of the other way around?

Well.......Say player is country A, and computer is country B. If this is for a single player map couldn't you use a script that pretty much says when A enters area (area being Waypoint 22) then create a transport. move to Waypoint 22, wait till loaded then move to next waypoint?

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Mig Eater · Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 5:39 pm Post subject:

MRMIdAS wrote:

no.

What he said...

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Jeffman12 · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 19 Jan 2004

I suppose transport pickups are one tic mark favoring Starcraft.

But what about unit exchanging?
Sending a unit into a structure, and a different unit coming out. And I don't mean input X to get Y and A to get B. I mean all units get the same thing in return.

Mig Eater · Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 4:11 am Post subject:

No that can't be done either.

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Orac · Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 6:44 am Post subject:

you can give a unit a weapon which changes the target into a different unit, somehow.
Couldn't you do that with a really short range?

m7 · Commander **Joined**: 17 Apr 2009

Infantry mutation is the only way I'd see that happening, but that's only infantry. And you can't have more than one output.

superluigi949 · Grenadier **Joined**: 03 Oct 2009

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Can a transport be ordered to pickup a unit instead of the other way around?

Only jumpjet vehicles,with the tag Caryall=yes.

it's not that way written,someone could fix it.

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Dark Templar X · Commander **Joined**: 26 Feb 2009

Except a jumpjet is a [VehicleType] and Carryall only works on [AircraftTypes].

*Omega* · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 27 Oct 2009

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Can a transport be ordered to pickup a unit instead of the other way around?

you can have an aircraft with the Carryall=yes tag land on top of any vehicle and transport it to where ever, but only one at a time that I know of.

Tony · Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 9:29 pm Post subject:

*Omega* wrote:

you can have an aircraft with the Carryall=yes tag land on top of any vehicle and transport it to where ever, but only one at a time that I know of.

Shock and awe.