ExpSpread
Divisor that turns an exploding object's collateral damage into the radius of its death blast.
- Applies to
- global rules
- File
rules.ini- Section
[CombatDamage]- Value
- floating point
- When omitted
.5
The blast belongs to an object carrying Explodes=yes, or one that has earned the explodes ability, and goes off at its center as it dies. Its strength is the object’s full Strength multiplied by its CollateralDamageCoefficient — the object’s damaged state does not enter into it. A building adds its stored tiberium on top: the amount held of each type multiplied by that type’s Power. The figure Strength alone yields is therefore only a floor for a building, and a full refinery blows up far harder than an empty one.
The blast carries the warhead of the object’s primary weapon — the one Primary names, or the one Elite names once the object is elite. An object with that slot empty has no warhead to carry, and the wide-area routine returns on entry: no cell is damaged, and no explosion animation or flash is produced either.
The radius is that strength divided by a hundred, divided again by this figure, and read as cells. A larger figure therefore makes a smaller blast. The division by a hundred is a whole-number one, so an object whose collateral strength falls short of a hundred is left with no radius at all and takes the floor of the clamp described next.
The radius is then held between one lepton and three cells, and the blast covers every cell within it once rounded up to whole cells — one ring of cells at the small end and three at the large. The damage delivered is the collateral strength multiplied by the radius in whole cells rounded down, held at a minimum of one — while the area covered rounds the same radius up. The two agree only where the radius lands on an exact cell boundary; between boundaries the blast covers a ring more than it multiplies for.