Ingame aircannister / airstrike limitations?

[Serge]

What part did you not understand ? ( <- is it enough intelligible this time ? I know I have a bad english but, hey, we learn every day… )

[SCDS_reyalP]

Glad to see the old Q2-era ‘Nothing is Farther than That’ constant of 8192 is still in use.

Huzzah for updating the engine without updating the game physics. Namely… Q2/Q3A had a limit as I recall initially of +/- 4096 in each axis. So a trace 8192 units long was considered ‘long enough’ for 99.999% of situations.

Welcome to ET, where maps can be safely +/- 32768 in each axis. But they’re still using traces 8192 units long by default. Huzzah for short-sited coders that don’t associate constants together so they can be accurately updated when one is changed.

Note that snipers do get double, so someone did think about it, briefly, somewhere.

For light weapons, it doesn’t matter much, with damage falloff and spread. I’d agree that things like AS and FFE should be longer, and #define > magic numbers any day.

[Rain]

It suddenly occurs to me that Serge might be referring to people thinking the FFE problem was a map bug in helmsdeep but not in assault…

I’ll reword what he said into (slightly (I’m tired)) better English for both is benefit (constructive criticism --> learning) and everyone else’s (easier to read); however, this is based on my interpretation (read: guess) of what he’s trying to say, deep down, and it may be completely off the wall.

I can sympathise with Gerbil… Nowadays, people often limit themselves to appearences when dealing with others. Many believe that in order to ‘be known,’ you have to criticize everything you can—making you “The One Who Knows¹â€?—but this leads to hasty, often incorrect conclusions that don’t help a conversation evolve.² It seems that, regardless of the country you live in, a large portion of the population either can’t or won’t think for themselves³, which makes this sort of attitude even more dangerous.

Fortunately, most SD posts are better than that. Have you noticed that the good threads here are always the result of reflection or some sort of verification, with some reservation? This sort of approach is what makes people authentic and reliable, in my humble opinion.

Colorful commentry because I’m feeling silly; in no way related to Serge himself:
¹ i.e. “My ePenis is bigger than your ePenis!�
² And, indeed, these hasty conclusions often become “fact.� Take, for example, the number of people who still believe that antilag will lag all the players on a server; or, better yet, that a single player with a high ping will cause everyone else to suffer (in games like ET; I should note there are still games where you will suffer. :))
³ “A person is smart; people are dumb, panicky animals and you know it.� (MIB); or, “people are idiots�

[Serge]

Bingo !

[G0-Gerbil]

Good man - I actually thought it was an insult aimed at me originally - I definately prefer that reading of it

[Serge]

Dont worry, when I am insulting someone I got a more direct style.

[G0-Gerbil]

Dont worry, when I am insulting someone I got a more direct style
I’ll bear that in mind in future
Anyway, just thought it quite cool that we’d worked out what caused that MP Assault thing - I remember when it first came out there were so many wild theories, which as we now know, were all wrong