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Jythexinvok posted 07-25-99 02:35 AM ET
Well, today, for the first time I built a chopper transport. Never before have I encountered a more useless unit! Anyone else discover this or am I missing some hidden virtue? Or more importantly, has anyone found a way to fiddle with it's functionalty to make it something worthwhile?
<wave>
Geo posted 07-25-99 10:24 AM ET
Chopper transports. . .
Range. . . too small, Capacity of 1.
pretty useless
I sometimes build needlejet transports
for puting probe teams closer to their target. It reduces the chance that the team gets caught. Occasionally, this is a suicide mission for the jet if the strategic aim is worth it, because the city may be pretty far away from the nearest base (ie assasinate prominent scientists when the opponent is close to a break through, or stop construction on a secret project)
I never maintain a fleet of airtransports though. Maybe if you wanted to be able to "drop" a unit into enemy territory, but didn't want to add drop-pods, you might want these.
Timexwatch posted 07-25-99 01:33 PM ET
You could always too with alpha.txt to make air transport more useful....
Jythexinvok posted 07-25-99 02:50 PM ET
Ah, but in this case the tricky part is fiddling with alpha.txt in such a way as to make the air trasport more usefull WITHOUT making the normal choppers more powerfull then they already are.
korn469 posted 07-25-99 04:21 PM ET
air transports besides their range and cargo capasity are useless because you can only load/unload them in a airbase or city. Or did they change that with the 4.0 patch?
korn469
Geo posted 07-25-99 10:07 PM ET
Patch 4.0 makes it possible to unload away from a city or airbase, but when taking off, you have to have the ground unit on standby (L) in the city with the transport. It took me some fiddling to get the transport to take the unit the first time. I have unloaded units into enemy territory with this though. I found it to be most useful since drop probe teams can not drop into enemy territory.
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Author	Topic: Air Transports.
Jythexinvok	posted 07-25-99 02:35 AM ET Well, today, for the first time I built a chopper transport. Never before have I encountered a more useless unit! Anyone else discover this or am I missing some hidden virtue? Or more importantly, has anyone found a way to fiddle with it's functionalty to make it something worthwhile? <wave>
Geo	posted 07-25-99 10:24 AM ET Chopper transports. . . Range. . . too small, Capacity of 1. pretty useless I sometimes build needlejet transports for puting probe teams closer to their target. It reduces the chance that the team gets caught. Occasionally, this is a suicide mission for the jet if the strategic aim is worth it, because the city may be pretty far away from the nearest base (ie assasinate prominent scientists when the opponent is close to a break through, or stop construction on a secret project) I never maintain a fleet of airtransports though. Maybe if you wanted to be able to "drop" a unit into enemy territory, but didn't want to add drop-pods, you might want these.
Timexwatch	posted 07-25-99 01:33 PM ET You could always too with alpha.txt to make air transport more useful....
Jythexinvok	posted 07-25-99 02:50 PM ET Ah, but in this case the tricky part is fiddling with alpha.txt in such a way as to make the air trasport more usefull WITHOUT making the normal choppers more powerfull then they already are.
korn469	posted 07-25-99 04:21 PM ET air transports besides their range and cargo capasity are useless because you can only load/unload them in a airbase or city. Or did they change that with the 4.0 patch? korn469
Geo	posted 07-25-99 10:07 PM ET Patch 4.0 makes it possible to unload away from a city or airbase, but when taking off, you have to have the ground unit on standby (L) in the city with the transport. It took me some fiddling to get the transport to take the unit the first time. I have unloaded units into enemy territory with this though. I found it to be most useful since drop probe teams can not drop into enemy territory.