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CHAPTERFIVE

EVA (zj 1.0.8)

Superweapon“Ready!”

Ofcourse, it’s impractical to make Lieutenant Zofia and her counterparts say“Great Tempest ready!” However, we can let them remind the player by simplysaying “Ready!” when any superweapon is ready.

BGM (zj 1.0.8)

I expectto enjoy those unique mission soundtracks (e.g. “Godsend Intro”,“Relativity", “Libra Requiem”, “Viratia”) when playing skirmishes.

AI

zj 1.1.2:

1. Buildwalls to protect the Construction Yard, considering that AI won’t pack it up.

2. Eithermake AI regularly repair broken bridges, or modify a few skirmish maps.

zj 1.1.3:

4. WhenAI vs AI, the winner is the one which first produces large quantities ofKiroves / Quetzals. Generally speaking, AI has serious problem of dealing with-- or NOT dealing with aerial units. I even saw several Rocketeers killed ahealth Centurion without any retaliation!

5. SinceAI is omniscient, how about making AI (re)acts accordingly? For example, whenenemy Kirovs are approaching, AI mobilizes all its anti-air units to attackthem.

6. Set AIuse units "restrictedly". Such as: set Thor, Dybbuk-A, and IronDragon only attack units, ignoring buildings; set Basilisk only attackbuildings, ignoring units.

zj 1.1.4

7. In3.3.4 AI EA always puts Force Shield on its Construction Yard (as long as ithas one) when facing a major superweapon attack. Why not let it put ForceShield where the major superweapon is actually going to occur? AI is omniscient.I once used Tech Missile to strike an AI EA’s AFH (after its Construction Yardwas destroyed), AI used Force Shield to protect the AFH. -- Oh, it was fooled.After the Force Shield disappeared, my Domination came. I think it’s better toset AI use Force Shield when and only when 1 it’s facing a major superweapon(and put it in the right place), 2 its Construction Yard is at low health (andput it on Construction Yard).

Other Bugs

1. Sometimeswhen I click at the bottom of the screen (full screen), I’ll click on theWindows 10 taskbar instead.

CNC Multiplayers

I canplay single player mode, and I can chat on CNC, but I can’t play with otherpeople on CNC, because others’ loading bars are always 0%, even if DTA Clienthas been added in the firewall white list.

Colour (zj 1.1.6)

Morecolour options.

POSTSCRIPT

Thanksfor reading my humble opinions on how the game would better be. All commentsare welcome and appreciated.

E-mail: xiyanzi23@163.com

Another thesis

on another MOD of “Red Alert 2” I wrote in 2017: https://www.zhihu.com/question/24050222/answer/242771664(inChinese).

On

“Heroes of Might and Magic 3”: http://xiyanzi.blogspot.jp/2015/10/3mod-35.html(inChinese).

On “ShadowTactics: Blades of the Shogun” I wrote two articles (in English) in 2018.

I alsocreated my version of Xiangqi / Chinese Chess.

ZhangJian

2019-09-09Monday

Tongnan,Chongqing, China (aka Korea-Kashmir)

zj1.1.7’s AFTERWORD

Profusely thank @Handepsilonfor theadvice on the layout of my work.

I spent two days retouching the composition, correctingmy errors and adding new ideas (labeled “zj 1.1.7”), while watching some MOvideos.

By the way, I’m writing a paper on “Heroes ofMight and Magic 8” these days.

2020-05-03Sunday

Tongan (潼南)