Builder Help

PithlitPithlit Join Date: 2003-05-07 Member: 16120Members, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
<div class="IPBDescription">Curious about it</div> We all know, that a DF help a gorge to build something, cuz it heals the unfinished building, and since its finished, after its HP are full, it is completet more quickly.
The same effect takes place, if a gorge uses its Healspray.
I´m curious if healing AND building is possible at the same time. I tried it a few times, but i´m not exactly sure.
Has anyone tried this?
If its possible it would increase the building speed noticable

Comments

  • PaqPaq Join Date: 2002-12-15 Member: 10876Members
    DF? You mean DC (defence chamber).

    No DC's doesn't speed up the building progress at all. Neither does the heal spray.
    Only way to speed the building is to hold down the "use" key. Where did you get this information from anyway?

    Fps effects the building speed, so maybe you have had a better fps when you are using your heal spray while building than those times when you just press the "use" key. <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • PithlitPithlit Join Date: 2003-05-07 Member: 16120Members, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    But if i build a DC next to for example an OC, its Hp go staedily up, me doing nothing!
  • X_StickmanX_Stickman Not good enough for a custom title. Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15533Members, Constellation
    An un-finished alien structure will slowly build itself. Just build an OC in the middle of nowhere, and dont touch it. It will build, but it takes a lot longer. And the thing about DC's speeding up building: THey used to, but only in hives. I believe this was taken out in a patch.
  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--X_Stickman+May 10 2003, 03:02 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (X_Stickman @ May 10 2003, 03:02 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> An un-finished alien structure will slowly build itself. Just build an OC in the middle of nowhere, and dont touch it. It will build, but it takes a lot longer. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    To be exact, afaik it's twice as long (depends on the fps of the gorge of course, but that's about it).
  • taboofirestaboofires Join Date: 2002-11-24 Member: 9853Members
    It's way more than twice as long. A res tower, left to itself to build, will take 2-3 minutes on its own. That's a frikken long time in game terms.
  • Brave_UlyssesBrave_Ulysses Join Date: 2003-04-28 Member: 15922Members
    I dunno - OCs for me seem to build themselves relatively quickly. But res chambers take ruddy AGES to build if you leave them to it. A defence chamber only works - I THINK - if a res tower takes damage while still building.
  • RPG_JssmfulhudRPG_Jssmfulhud Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4006Members
    As all the alien "strucures" are actually living, and as all living things grow - structures slowly grow without your help. But if you give them a little "nourish", you'll have them up in no time.
  • Iced_EagleIced_Eagle Borg Engineer Join Date: 2003-03-02 Member: 14218Members
    anything of aliens slowly... very slowly builds itself. i only use that if i need to lay down a bunch of chambers (mostly OC) otherwise i build them and i almost always help the res build. they do nothing to help the team while building... only after building <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> and yes your fps affects your build rate and all that other stuff but as you know.... will be fixed in 1.1.... also is it just me or does the first person view of the gorge look nothing like the actual gorge??? ive never seen that pink blob on a gorge with two little arms when looking at another gorge...........
  • X_StickmanX_Stickman Not good enough for a custom title. Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15533Members, Constellation
    i've wondered that too. and my lap hurts because i just dropped a curry on it. ow
  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--X_Stickman+May 11 2003, 03:22 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (X_Stickman @ May 11 2003, 03:22 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> and my lap hurts because i just dropped a curry on it. ow <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    That can be nasty indeed. Especially since <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='skulk.gif'><!--endemo--> can smell curry from a hundred feet. Imagine a bite *down there*.
  • SoulSkorpionSoulSkorpion Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 423Members
    1: All alien buildings build themselves.
    2: The rate at which the structures build themselves vaires from structure to structure. As far as I know, it depends on how much health the chambers have. The order is something like this:
    RT
    DC
    OC, MC, SC
    Where RTs build slowest, and OCs MCs and SCs build fastest.
    2: You can speed this building by holding down use on them (assuming you're a gorge).
    3: When alien structures are completed, they will *NOT* self heal.
    4: Damaged alien structures can be healed by healspray or by being within range of a DC or a hive.
    5: Healing unbuilt structures (with healspray, DC or hive) will not speed the building.
    6: You can hold down use and still use your healspray, allowing you to heal people who come to you for healing and still keep building.
  • PaqPaq Join Date: 2002-12-15 Member: 10876Members
    edited May 2003
    <!--QuoteBegin--SoulSkorpion+May 13 2003, 11:07 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (SoulSkorpion @ May 13 2003, 11:07 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->2: The rate at which the structures build themselves vaires from structure to structure. As far as I know, it depends on how much health the chambers have. The order is something like this:
    RT
    DC
    OC, MC, SC
    Where RTs build slowest, and OCs MCs and SCs build fastest.

    4: Damaged alien structures can be healed by healspray or by being within range of a DC or a hive.
    <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    <b>2.</b> No, it can't be dependable by the health.
    DC = 800 hp
    OC = 1200 hp
    OC's are much faster to build than DC's.

    <b>4.</b> As far as i know, hive doesn't heal buildings.
  • GeronimoGeronimo Join Date: 2002-12-18 Member: 11056Members
    to get back to the top, healthspray and DCs dont help building

    Curry suxx0rz

    THe pink blob on the Gorge interface is his tongue...yes, look at the gorges toungue...
  • RPG_JssmfulhudRPG_Jssmfulhud Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4006Members
    Curry? What about Vegeta? <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • That_Annoying_KidThat_Annoying_Kid Sire of Titles Join Date: 2003-03-01 Member: 14175Members, Constellation
    actually it's not his toungue, but the thing that it uses to spit out the organic goo, there probosic (plural of probuscus), whoops g2g, getting yelled @
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