Miners mining in flagshipbase kill it

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Miners mining in or close to the flagshipbase drain it's HP. 

Maybe fix it by changing the weapon to one that does no AoE or a weapon that 
never misses. 

Sorry if this is a duplicate, it feels like one but i can't find it anywhere in 
the list.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Oksnoop2@gmail.com on 17 Nov 2010 at 8:13

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problem is that spring can no do 0 damage, its rounded to 1.
"a weapon that never misses" would be very desireable, a invisible vlauncher 
rocket could be worth trying. i think a bit of AoE and spraying actually helps 
the miners always hitting the rocks (which is important)

will try making a gadget to void damage done by miners to all units except 
resources but not sure if it will work. dont feel like testing weapon values 
for hours.

but i better make a cool mining sound first because this is only prioritiy 
"medium" and sound is "high" ;)

Original comment by anmeldek...@web.de on 18 Nov 2010 at 6:20

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verticle launch rockets are some of the most inaccurate weapons I've seen in 
spring.

It needs to be a high velocity laser with accuracy = 0.

Original comment by sanadauj...@gmail.com on 18 Nov 2010 at 6:36

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"verticle launch rockets are some of the most inaccurate weapons I've seen in 
spring."
That is like saying "tanks are always so weak in spring", its all in the game 
numbers.
just because BA or whatever game you saw them in uses them as inaccurate 
weapons does not mean they can not be made accurrete.

"It needs to be a high velocity laser with accuracy = 0."
cant fire through/over ground to mine rocks in craters etc.
unless the lasers fires from an invisible point above the unit, then it might 
work.

Original comment by anmeldek...@web.de on 18 Nov 2010 at 7:42

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"invisible point above the unit"
i dont know my way around upspring and dont have the model files but if 
somebody adds such a piece i will experiment with it.
or multiple points for testing. with screenshot please where the points are.

Original comment by anmeldek...@web.de on 19 Nov 2010 at 12:10

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For some reason the miners were doing 15 damage to buildings per shot.  This 
was reduced to 1.  Hopefully the effect will be much less severe now.

Weapon was also given complete accuracy, and increased velocity.

Original comment by sanadauj...@gmail.com on 19 Nov 2010 at 3:25

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Original comment by sanadauj...@gmail.com on 19 Nov 2010 at 3:25

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"For some reason the miners were doing 15 damage to buildings per shot."
Problem with armordef. I thought I had armor set up so that rocks use a class 
"Minerals" but it probally got lost when copying over from CT_Harvest or 
something.
Anyway, use Armordef.

"Weapon was also given complete accuracy, and increased velocity."
Miners now have trouble targeting: http://h-2.abload.de/img/cantshootlbs5.png
Also try attacking ground, the shots do not hit where you clicked.
Too high weaponspeed actually decreases accurracy because the shots can travel 
through hitspheres before a hit is detected. With the small distances used, 
weaponspeed should hardly matter anyway.

I guess it is a problem with the firing & aiming points being moved.
=> "invisible point above the unit" still desired.

Original comment by anmeldek...@web.de on 19 Nov 2010 at 3:57