#136 : DRM-DY \"Carry Bay\"
#DRM-DY \"Carry Bay\" [136]
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#136 : DRM-DY \"Carry Bay\"
pastel topaz
Accidentally made the final chamber a bit rough. Should be a fun showcase, at least.
This is my first map, so, y'know. Be gentle.
wheat iris
how i can use the hip
plain spruce
You have to select the ship and press one of the custom keys from custom0 to custom3 which should spawn a smaller ship as long as you've provided the main ship with power
Custom0 is a cannon, Custom1 is a rocket, Custom2 is a particle gun, and Custom3 is a lathe
Collecting gems increases the main ship's capacity so it can support more of the small ships
And the custom keys mentioned can be set in the hotkeys tab of the options menu if you're not familiar with them
wheat iris
Thanks
wheat iris
waht is lathe for
arctic quarry
waht is lathe for
Lathes are those yellow lasers that dig sand and build shields.
If you save and load this level, the sprites that make up the carriers' UIs are reset. To fix it you'll have to create new ones every time the game is loaded.
stuck nymph
Both points already made (final chamber and UI).
I'll leave this as "done" since that will take a while ðŸ¤
Mainly came here to spread awareness.
(relevant carrier theme song)
devout flame
I don't know if this is optimal, but I only built Rockets from the carriers
sweet adder
Same. Maybe could have shaved some time off right at the end with very last bit of creeper cleanup by swapping to cannons but otherwise rockets seemed to always be the obvious choice
devout flame
in retrospect, there were likely moments where a particle gun would've been a good play
pastel topaz
The mission is designed with using the versatility of the carrier in mind, but there isn't meant to be a right or wrong way to play through it
pastel topaz
If you save and load this level, the sprites that make up the carriers' UIs are ...
I'll have to look into that.
arctic quarry
I'll have to look into that.
Also you can spawn ships while the carrier is en route, and those ships spawn instantly at the carrier's destination, meaning you can basically create ships out of thin air anywhere on the map that's accessible to the carrier by ordering it to move there, immediately spawning up one or more ships and then ordering the carrier to move back to its original position.
You can use GetAllPixelCount to check if the carrier is moving if you wish to prevent this exploit going forward.
pastel topaz
Interesting
Leave it to players to find bugs I wouldn'tve even considered looking for (affectionate)
arctic quarry
I went looking for these ones specifically because I've stumbled across them before with my forcefield ship.
pastel topaz
If you save and load this level, the sprites that make up the carriers' UIs are ...
Do you have any advice on getting stuff to run when the game is loaded?
arctic quarry
Do you have any advice on getting stuff to run when the game is loaded?
Personally I'd use the :Awake built-in function, first calling DestroySprite on every named sprite variable and then CreateSprite to rebuild them. When it runs the first time and there are no sprites yet, DestroySprite won't do anything, but on subsequent loads will prevent your map from being littered with little white squares as the sprite names get reused for newly-created ones.
devout flame
one annoyance (not sure if it can be 'fixed'); the carrier can't really be used while paused
arctic quarry
I've tried and failed before, I had to use a global UI script to interface with the units because it seems unit scripts can't be set to run while paused.
pastel topaz
The script is currently set not to run while paused
I could probably change that?
hushed bloom
interesting method to decrease the amount of creeper in the final set of chambers before engaging, using this to divert the creeper maker into it's own chamber, as the creeper can't travel the diagonals made
plain spruce
Yep, it's one of the most common cheeses
You can use a similar setup to drop sands into a creeper chamber, which lets you do silly things like dropping boomzene and blowing up an enemy from complete safety
hushed bloom
on the other hand, particles can travel diagonally
plain spruce
Yeah you can sometimes take advantage of that as well to slowly trickle particles out of a densely packed chamber
ebon isle
I can't figure out how to clear that last big chamber. Even with 2 carriers full of missile ships and all the other ships, the average change in creeper level is still positive. So even if I was able to keep the creeper indefinitely from getting out, I still wouldn't be able to destroy it faster than it is refilling.
Is there something I'm missing?
plain spruce
Can you post a screenshot of your current situation?
ebon isle
I did manage to cheese it a bit by getting one of the emitters to fall into the shield and drift over to where I could nullify it.
Once I did that, I was able to sloooowly start chipping away at the total creeper. But prior to doing that, no matter what I did, the total creeper just kept going up.
plain spruce
The particles seem to be the main problem here. Your initial goal when breaching that chamber should be to kill as many particles as possible. If you open from the top you can cut down the particle density much more quickly since you're entering near the particle emitter itself. Ideally you also don't want to widen the narrow path between the two rooms until you've cleared one side. When you fully connect both rooms right away you're just making them more capable of supporting each other
ebon isle
I think the problem still remains that even if I were to make a narrow opening, I wouldn't ever actually clear one side, because it's filling up faster than I can destroy
(even prior to when I cleared out that narrow bit between the 2 chambers)
plain spruce
Yeah, the narrow path is a secondary concern. The main problem was the particles, you really want to position yourself to kill them as quickly as possible when attacking a particle chamber. They produce quite a lot of creeper when there are this many of them.
devout flame
Particulate amplifies creeper, so reducing their count dramatically helps
ebon isle
Wait, particles make creeper? lol, I went through the entire game and never put that together
devout flame
Small nuance... They don't make creeper... They multiply creeper that already exists