[New Feature] Releasing Tiberium on death

[askhati]

Description:

Currently, when an unit has the tag "TiberiumHeal=yes", two things happen:

• the unit will heal when standing in tiberium fields

• ...and will ALSO release tiberium on death

  For balancing and unit design purposes, it would be great if these two functions could be unbundled into separate tags.

Possible Implementation:

Create the following two new tags:

• TiberiumHealer= y/n (heal in tib; nothing else)

• TiberiumOnDeath= y/n (release tib on death)

  That way, the vanilla "TiberiumHeal=" can be used on units that have both functions; for units that need only one of the two abilities, use the appropriate new tag.

[Rampastring]

I think the almost-duplicate keys could end up being confusing. As an alternative, we could only add the TiberiumOnDeath key. The functionality that a unit would have with only TiberiumHealer=yes could be achieved with TiberiumHeal=yes and TiberiumOnDeath=no.

[ErastusMercy]

I agree with Rampa, I think the TiberiumOnDeath could simply act as an override for that element of the TiberiumHeal behaviour.

[CCHyper]

Just checked this out, looks pretty straightforward.

Is there anything else related to this before I go ahead and work on this?

[askhati]

As discussed on Discord, an update of the initial request would look like this:

• only 1x new tag: "TiberiumOnDeath="
  • accepts true/false OR a valid Tiberium type from the Global list (Riparius, Arboreus, Vinifera, etc)
  • if no/false: use this to disable the tiberium-spawning effect of the existing WW tag "TiberiumHeal="
  • if yes/true: use this to spawn the first Tiberium type from the Global list
  • if a valid Tiberium type: spawn this Tiberium type on death; needs to interact with the existing WW "TiberiumHeal=" tag to potentially override the Tiberium type released by that (first) tag if it is different