Building

Dunsby · October 2002

<div class="IPBDescription">And marines</div>Can the command place buildings in places where a marine cant see ? Like if he put one near a hive and marines were at the spawn would it stay there untill untill a marine reach's there and starts building or would it just not be placed.

Slycaster · October 2002

Buildings can be placed anywhere depending on the restrictions, some buildings like the infantry portal can only be placed within a radius around the CC. Otherwise buildings can be placed anywhere, any time. The aliens can destroy them, too, unbuilt.

CMEast · October 2002

Presumably a resource node isnt blocked up by destroying an unbuilt resource collecter then?

Slycaster · October 2002

nodes aren't destroyed, period, anymore.

CMEast · October 2002

Thats good to here, I was worried that people would just end up blocking off each others nodes and then itd be lmgs for everyone

Paladin · October 2002

Another question :

How does the Infantry Portal look like ?
Is it the same model as the Phase Gate ?
Never found any screen whith it...

Lazarus · October 2002

I've got one too (sorry if Im highjacking the topic):

What happens when an Onos jumps from some height and falls down on a marine? Will he become a <a href="http://www.perfectpancake.net/pancake.jpg" target="_blank">pancake</a> or will the marine take the onos on a horseback?

DOOManiac · October 2002

jeez lotsa questions. i'll take a crack at answering some :P

CMEast: when a building dies it disappears completely. No pieces of scrap metal (or alien building gibs) left over or anything, its just gone.

Paladin: No, they are seperate models with seperate particle effects.

<a href="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/uploads/cgc-nsrc9-ss4.jpg" target="_blank">This is a phase gate</a>. Notice the green particles and the added light that's always on.

Can't find a decent pic of the Infantry portal, but its different. Much smaller, and the particle effect is only on when somebody spawns in, not on all the time like the phase gate.

Lazarus: I'm not 100% sure on this since I don't usually go Onos myself, but normally he just stands on the head of the marine like in normal half-life, no crushing damage or anything. But if he is currently using charge, then yes he will crush the marine. Again I say, this is how I *think* it happens, but I am not sure. Can somebody who plays Onos a lot verify this?

Jops · October 2002

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (Cyanide @ Oct. 23 2002,12:34)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">nodes aren't destroyed, period, anymore.</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
so nodes are immortal and teams are always guarenteed(wrong spelling) resources?

DOOManiac · October 2002

you're confusing res nodes with res towers.

node = in map, spews out resources. indestructible, but can use up all resources inside.

tower = team builds ON a node, to capure its resources. like getting oil in warcraft 2. this can be killed by the enemy...

Silarn · October 2002

Buildings do have some short death animation though, right? They dont just *poof* disappear when they're destroyed? Not that it really matters. If not, nice eye candy for a second release! <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'>

Jops · October 2002

ahhh thankyou doom, you scared me there for a second

Dunsby · October 2002

If you put a building down does it use rp? Or does it only use rp when its built.

Evil_Sonic_Death_Monkey · October 2002

i have a question. when you use up all the rps in a resource node, is it unuseable for the rest of the game, or does it regen really slowly?

CMEast · October 2002

I was still under the impression that nodes were destroyed when the collecter above them was destroyed, I didnt think rubble was left over so <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'> <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>

I can answer the others
Buildings do have a death animation, they also have a nice screaming sound <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'>
Buildings use RP as soon as they are put down, not once they are built. This means you cant just drop loads of buildings and then build the ones thatll be useful. Or block up areas with them.
AFAIK a resource node does not regenerate. Once its gone its gone.

DOOManiac · October 2002

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (CMEast @ Oct. 23 2002,18:12)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I was still under the impression that nodes were destroyed when the collecter above them was destroyed</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
this was in very very briefly for one build as a "lets see what happens" change, but it was decided to be an unwise choice and was changed back.

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one of the pitfalls of numerous public changelogs :P
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dragonsblade · October 2002

ive noticed from all the same poists about marine and alien buildins that aliens are the mor versitile builders and marines can only build on flat land. but what if there is a small rise in the middle of where your building will you not able to build or will it smooth out

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