Non-regenerating spawns

Millennium

I want to make a certain unit which can spawn an aircraft just once. If that aircraft is lost, there should be no way for that unit to get it back and ever spawn it again. So far, I've just set SpawnRegenRate to an insanely high number, but is that the proper way? Or is there some special value that prevents spawn regeneration?

Krow · Commander **Joined**: 30 Jan 2010 **Location**: Malaysia

Set it to 0? Or maybe negative numbers?

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Graion Dilach · Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2015 5:44 pm Post subject:

You can't do better than negative numbers, yeah - and due to overflow, -1 will be 4 million frames, so...

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Millennium · Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 12:28 pm Post subject:

-1 seems to work as 0 (instant regen), so I guess 999999999[...] is the way to go

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Atomic_Noodles · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Oct 2011

Positive Numbers is the only solution and probably putting it as 999999999 should be long enough.

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

Does Spawn logic work with Ammo? (Ammo=1)

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Millennium · Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 2:19 pm Post subject:

It definitely does, but I can't go that way in my case, because the unit has other weapons that it should be able to fire later.

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4StarGeneral · General **Joined**: 14 Sep 2006 **Location**: Limbo

-1 may be a special case as shown by several other cases by Westwood, have you tried -2 or -3?

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AlexB · Commander **Joined**: 31 May 2010 **Location**: Germany

Regarding the initial question: 999999999 is close to optimal and conveys "pretty long time" kinda well. But do not use more 9's, though.

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Millennium · Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 6:01 pm Post subject:

Alright, thanks everyone!

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