attack types and ranges

[Iris]

Enough has been said about bringing these ideas to mainline already.

Soft-lock. This thread should either focus on bringing these ideas to user-made add-ons (which CABD and HABD*) or get locked IMHO.

* CABD: Can Already Be Done; HABD: Has Already Be Done

[idanwin]

And trying to get some of them in Mainline.

And in UMC and UMM.
And I'm not sure 'Longrange' is easy to implement. (I wouldn't know how to, but then, there's very few I know)
Maybe someone could tell me how?

[pauxlo]

And trying to get some of them in Mainline.

And in UMC and UMM.
And I'm not sure 'Longrange' is easy to implement. (I wouldn't know how to, but then, there's very few I know)
Maybe someone could tell me how?

The easy way: make two attacks, one in "longrange", one in the usual "ranged". So you could attack in longrange (without retaliation), and retaliate when someone atacks you with ranged.

[AI]

You could also throw in an attack_weight=0 to make attacking at "normal range" impossible.

[Velensk]

That would only only apply to AI

EDIT: the above infromation is incorrect.

[zookeeper]

That would only apply to the AI

Wrong.

[AI]

It is exactly how the defend_only special works.

[Lizard]

And trying to get some of them in Mainline.

And in UMC and UMM.
And I'm not sure 'Longrange' is easy to implement. (I wouldn't know how to, but then, there's very few I know)
Maybe someone could tell me how?

Have a look at "Tempels of the Naga" there is a Item which gives you a attack with range=norelation. Or you could use s.th. like the NOCOUNTERATTACK from the Era of Magic, which will allow you to use this attack for defense.