Article View: alt.games.command.and.conquer
Article #26694Re: Generals/ZH balance discussion
From: Tod
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 05:56
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 05:56
50 lines
3298 bytes
3298 bytes
Put the Green toxic stuff in front of the enemy tanks. At least that will slow him down. "Gustav Olofsson" <gustav.olofsson@telia.com> wrote in message news:RbPnb.35443$dP1.116327@newsc.telia.net... > Hi, > First of all I just want to say that I don't play online at all. But I do > play offline a lot, and vs my friends occasionally. I also enjoy watching > replays and it seems like GLA is by far the most powerful faction in > Generals/ZH. When I play vs the computer GLA also gives me the best > opposition. Why? As I see it, GLA's units are too cheap compared to their > effectivness. Example: a 900$ rocket buggy can destroy a 2000$ Overlord tank > with 1200$ gatling gun upgrade, too keep this overlord alive you need either > a 800$ ECM tank or a 1000$ airfield with atleast one 1200$ Mig. > > GLA neither has or need support units like the ECM tank or > aircraft/helicopters, which saves them a lot of money to be spent on even > more fighting vehicles. It seems like GLA can survive by solely using three > kinds of units in great numbers: scorpions, quad cannons and rocket buggies. > These units provide you with everything you need to a low cost. Two of these > units doesn't even require the palace. I don't think this is fair, and I > thought it was China that were supposed to defeat its enemies by > overwhelming numbers. > > Okay, somehting has to be done - that is obvious. But what? Some of my first > thoughts were adjumustments in cost and production times for GLA. However, I > think that GLA's units are supposed to be cheap, so this sure is a tricky > question. Maybe a large part of the problem lies with the other two > factions? The Battlemaster really needs some help, it's not a good tank > right now, I think it should cost 700$ and be produced faster with slightly > increased armor protection. That would probably help a lot. As for the quad > cannon, that vehicle must be made less effective vs buildings, and that gun > and the whole vehicle itself should turn around much more slowly. The > scorpion rocket upgrade is very effective and it must cost more money and > time to buy it. > > I have more ideas, but this has become a little too much text already. I'm > looking forward to your feedback. > >
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<lK1ob.42831$mZ5.256590@attbi_s54>Path:
mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!news5.aus1.giganews.com!firehose2!nntp4!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border3.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!diablo.voicenet.com!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!attla2!ip.att.net!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!attbi_s54.POSTED!not-for-mailReferences:
<RbPnb.35443$dP1.116327@newsc.telia.net>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!news5.aus1.giganews.com!firehose2!nntp4!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border3.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!diablo.voicenet.com!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!attla2!ip.att.net!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!attbi_s54.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Tod" <no_spam_me@comcast.net> Newsgroups: alt.games.command.and.conquer References: <RbPnb.35443$dP1.116327@newsc.telia.net> Subject: Re: Generals/ZH balance discussion Lines: 52 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Message-ID: <lK1ob.42831$mZ5.256590@attbi_s54> NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.210.56.29 X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-Trace: attbi_s54 1067493393 12.210.56.29 (Thu, 30 Oct 2003 05:56:33 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 05:56:33 GMT Organization: Comcast Online Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 05:56:33 GMT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit