Help with Civilian Defenses, please!

Baene · 08-25-2005, 04:44 AM

Ok, i'm having a problem, the map i'm making is centered around a large civilian (hostile) base in the center of the map, surrounded by mountains. It's fun now, but would absolutely own if i could have base defenses as well. When i place them, even with power, they don't do anything! Can anyone please tell me how to make them fire on everyone except civilians? Hell, if i could just make them fire at all lol, i'd be happy

Oh, and all the civilian units are set to "area defend" and work just as i want them to, such as tanks and troops, but prism towers, flak guns, teslas just won't do a thing. Please help! I'm hoping this can be done in the FinalAlert editor, if someone could please tell me how!

Thanks in advance guys.

Baene

bobing · 08-25-2005, 05:11 AM

you simply place the units with the civilian house and they should work, however, they will fire at you, but you won't fire at them, you need to force fire.

Whiteboy · 08-25-2005, 09:28 AM

Just to clarify: you don't actually need to "force-fire" by definition (hold CTRL and click). What bobing meant was that you will have to manually tell your forces to attack - they will not actively fire upon civilians or retaliate for that matter.

Baene · 08-25-2005, 03:10 PM

Well, i place the defenses, and they don't do ANYTHING lol, not even when fired on. I don't understand why, either. The civilian units i place (Apoc tanks, prism tanks, all troops) fire on all the players, and are targettable (no need for ctrl to target them) but the defenses won't do a thing. Oh, i also need to mention this is JUST RA2, as i don't have YR yet. I'm not sure you guys are totally understanding what i mean (not a diss, truly). I use a prism tower, place it near some power, set it (using double-click on it) to civilian, and it doesn't work. All the other units set to civilian (apoc tanks, prism tanks, etc) and area defend, work perfectly. They attack me, and i don't need to force fire on them at all. I hope that helps! PLEASE HELP MEH!

CannisRabidus · 08-25-2005, 07:03 PM

It should just work. Defense buildings and power buildings should be the same House. Maybe you don't have enough power?

Baene · 08-25-2005, 10:10 PM

I'll give it a shot! Thanks - what i'll do is place nuclear power near the banks of weapons, and perhaps it will go.

Thanks again for the replies guys

CannisRabidus · 08-26-2005, 05:02 AM

Location doesn't matter. It's whether the power is anywhere on the map or not.

AlliedG · 08-26-2005, 10:20 AM

you can put it off screen for the hackzors

CannisRabidus · 08-26-2005, 01:13 PM

I prefer to not only put it off screen, but to use an invisible light post (modded so it does no light and so it has much power)

Baene · 08-27-2005, 09:09 PM

Got it working! Thanks for the help guys. It was weird, but i think i had it set to switch sides and i must have hit the nuke plant by accident. Ahh well, live and learn, i guess

Baene~