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Wed, 10 August 2016 02:09 
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| Flugente |
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As I've stated elsewhere, I'd like to do more things to SAM sites than simply blow them up. An easily understood idea would be to 'hack' a SAM site - it's offensive capabilities are lowered by lowering it's radius.
It's just that SAM sites do not have a radius at the moment. Every sector is covered by a fixed SAM (or none at all), defined in SamSites.xml. That does seem rather arbitrary... and it has the side effect of no 2 SAM sites covering the same sector airspace. Either you control it or the enemy does. So sad.
To change that, I propose instead having SAM sites cover all sectors withing a radius. Then we could alter their radius by SAM status/hacking/staff present/whatever else we can think of. To test how well that would work, I've dabbled a bit with the airspace display: I named the SAMs A, B, C and D, gave them colours and coloured the airspace they control (control if distance to SAM is <= radius):
Here is what we get if radius is 5.0.
Radius = 6.0.
Radius = 6.5. This seems like a good value. We can still land in Omerta. While we could now land in the swamps in the south-east, the next towns are a garrisoned military city and the town most loyal to the queen. Not exactly easy pickings for a few mercs without support.
For comparison, the current airspace.
A consequence of this change would be that it would also be harder to get a free airspace. Taking out or at least sabotaging SAM sites would likely take a much higher priority - SAM A would really nerf your ability to blitz in the center even if you take C, and D stops you from harassing the enemy as soon as they leave Meduna.
What I would really, REALLY like is to get rid of the old system altogether (instead of once again stacking another alternative feature onto the old one).
Anyway... thougths on this?
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