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WallTower

Changed in 0.2.0

The BuildingType that joins a brick or sandbag wall run from any direction.

Specification
Applies to
global rules
File
rules.ini
Section
[General]
Value
class
When omitted
none

The BuildingType this key names is the wall tower. No flag on the type gives it the role, and only one type can hold it. Wall towers describes the behavior in full.

While it stands, the tower counts as a continuation of a brick or sandbag wall from all four directions, so a wall run can turn a corner or meet another run through it. Nod walls never connect to it. Connection frames covers how runs join.

The tower can be placed on a brick or sandbag wall cell its house owns, even an undamaged one; an ordinary wall piece can only replace a damaged segment. For a house a human is playing, a sellable segment under the tower is removed first, without refund. A computer house’s tower stands on top of the segment and can only be placed this way on a brick wall.

The tower also takes plugged-in upgrades differently from other structures. PowersUpToLevel and TurretAnim cover the difference.

Computer bases

Section titled “Computer bases”

Each rules file that sets WallTower also replaces the first side’s AIWallTowers list with the named type, which is how the computer’s GDI bases get their towers. An AIWallTowers= in that side’s own section of the same file overrides it. The towers a computer house plans come from its side’s AIWallTowers, not from this key.

When the computer places the tower this key names, the next base defense in its plan moves onto the tower’s cell. Other types on an AIWallTowers list do not move it.

When a player’s base passes to the computer, each tower of this type holding at least one upgrade fills the next unfilled base-defense placeholder in the computer’s plan, and its last upgrade is written in after it. The house’s side does not matter, but two conditions do:

  • A placeholder must remain. Once the plan has none left, no further tower is written.
  • One of the house’s factories must be able to build the tower type under the normal build rules.

A tower of this type without an upgrade is left out, and so is a tower of any other type unless it is IsBaseDefense=yes.

See also — walls-and-gates, ai-base-building

History

  1. Changed0.2.0In development

    Test defense prerequisites against the acted side's towers

  2. Changed0.2.0In development

    Read base building from the side a house acts as