New Goblin AI

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October 15th, 2015
Sreno

New Goblin AI

I think goblins should spread around collectors and storage's, instead of attacking from the side they were deployed they would instead spread around the collectors making it more advantageous to use goblins.

Why? Currently goblins can be 1 hit from most splash defenses, leading to groups of goblins getting annihilated with ease from enemy defenses. If the goblin were to spread out around collectors this would happen a lot less.

Thanks for reading my suggestion!

-Sreno
October 15th, 2015
Manyolo

This will cause confusion as we will not be able to actually control them. If you want to avoid getting your goblins hit by splash damage use giants as meat shields.
October 15th, 2015
Radiating

This would be difficult to code for what it's worth and you can make a wall of them if you're having trouble.
October 15th, 2015
Manyolo

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Originally Posted by Radiating

This would be difficult to code for what it's worth and you can make a wall of them if you're having trouble.

Wont be difficult to code but surely will be a waste of code.
October 15th, 2015
PvtLeeOwned

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Originally Posted by Radiating

This would be difficult to code for what it's worth and you can make a wall of them if you're having trouble.

And here we go again. Why do you insist on offering an opinion on level of effort? You have no basis upon which to make that claim.
October 15th, 2015
JJ2478

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Originally Posted by PvtLeeOwned

And here we go again. Why do you insist on offering an opinion on level of effort? You have no basis upon which to make that claim.

This feature would be pointless. Make the game worse.
October 15th, 2015
Manyolo

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Originally Posted by PvtLeeOwned

And here we go again. Why do you insist on offering an opinion on level of effort? You have no basis upon which to make that claim.

Ive got to agree with this, many of his posts state that it is "hard to code" when its not.
October 15th, 2015
Radiating

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Originally Posted by Manyolo

Wont be difficult to code but surely will be a waste of code.

Sure, but how would you code it so that goblins can spread to multiple points from a single point? As I said, the wall already does this.
October 15th, 2015
Manyolo

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Originally Posted by Radiating

Sure, but how would you code it so that goblins can spread to multiple points from a single point? As I said, the wall already does this.

Sure the wall does this and it is not a good idea to implement, we agree on that. What bugs me is the "hard to code". Im not sc's developer nor have i any access to the source code which is written in C++ if im not mistaken(?), i surely know that by adding the proper statements and with some exception handling this is doable with not much effort. Again we agree that it will be a waste of code and that will cause confusion, its an unnecessary feature.
October 16th, 2015
Radiating

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Originally Posted by Manyolo

Sure the wall does this and it is not a good idea to implement, we agree on that. What bugs me is the "hard to code". Im not sc's developer nor have i any access to the source code which is written in C++ if im not mistaken(?), i surely know that by adding the proper statements and with some exception handling this is doable with not much effort. Again we agree that it will be a waste of code and that will cause confusion, its an unnecessary feature.

Not sure where you got the C++ language from but either way, you're the Com Sci major so I'm not gonna argue this one :smirk: I do agree that even if it was easy to code it would be confusing anyway.
October 16th, 2015
Manyolo

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Originally Posted by Radiating

Not sure where you got the C++ language from but either way, you're the Com Sci major so I'm not gonna argue this one :smirk: I do agree that even if it was easy to code it would be confusing anyway.

So lets agree that this idea doesnt worth the trouble to be implemented. :smirk:
October 16th, 2015
Radiating

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Originally Posted by Manyolo

So lets agree that this idea doesnt worth the trouble to be implemented. :smirk:

*isn't

And yes, I should also add that I believe that it would be more of a hinderance than a help because of how the gobs spread out when I specifically want to funnel them to a storage.
October 16th, 2015
George1971

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Originally Posted by Sreno

I think goblins should spread around collectors and storage's, instead of attacking from the side they were deployed they would instead spread around the collectors making it more advantageous to use goblins.

Why? Currently goblins can be 1 hit from most splash defenses, leading to groups of goblins getting annihilated with ease from enemy defenses. If the goblin were to spread out around collectors this would happen a lot less.

Thanks for reading my suggestion!

-Sreno

Agree. The extreme clumpiness of goblins hoards makes them so vulnerable to area damage.

give them a small degree of self-avoidance, it would make them better.
October 16th, 2015
nerfedname

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Originally Posted by George1971

Agree. The extreme clumpiness of goblins hoards makes them so vulnerable to area damage.

give them a small degree of self-avoidance, it would make them better.

The user already has a means of "self-avoidance" to prevent hoards of goblins from being wasted by mortar and wizard tower fire. It's called a "heal spell."

I use 28 goblins in my barch raiding. If I find a wonderful base with all their storages inside a single box, just crack it open, two-finger unleash all 28 gobbo's, drop a single heal spell and watch as ALL the storages drop in about 4-6 seconds by a near splash-damage-immune hoard of rabid goblins...