less agressive fog of war

Ogorter · Post by **Ogorter** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 9:47 am

The current fog of war is pretty aggressively falling back, even between some groups of buildings you could still have some fog of war.

meaning that you captured an island, populated it with some buildings and workers and warriors, and still enemy globs can walk right through and hardly get spotted.

My suggestion is that globs can see a little further.

Buildings also prevent fog of war and also a little further then today.

But lastly, if you have a group of globs or buildings, then they prevent fog of war even further. Maybe especially for the space in between ...

Post by **AppleBoy** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 12:55 am

I definitely agree with that.
Maybe that could be a thing with the schools? as they advance, they can see further?
same with buildings, when you upgrade them, the radius around them grows.

Joey101 · Post by **Joey101** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 2:00 pm

What about defenc towers?

I often use them for seeing lots of area

Andrew sayers · Post by **Andrew sayers** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 7:24 pm

Some of those things aren't easy to change, but you can change the distance that buildings see by editing data/buildings.txt and data/buildings.default.txt in the main glob2 directory - if you find some values for viewingRange that work both in single- and mult-player games, I suggest you submit a patch. I'd certainly like to see unit vision be put in a config file in the 1.1 branch, but I don't know enough about the unit code to say what the issues are there.

In defence of the current system, it encourages you to put defence towers around the edge of your base, which is quite a good strategy. Also, defence towers in particular shouldn't have their range of vision extended by proximity, as that would encourage you to think they could shoot further than they actually can.

- Andrew

Skasi · Post by **Skasi** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 8:20 pm

well.. I think the idea, that the sight-range is low, is good!
cause this allows more strategy..

If you want a 99% seen base, you should put one or more flags into your base and set their range high

or you build towers, yeah... ^^

Nuage · Post by **Nuage** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 3:38 am

Sorry, but for now I think that a building is meant for its use (for instance Inns to food units), and towers are meant to see and defend. So build towers if you want to see your base. Unless you see other gameplay points.