Suddenly: jumpjet unit out of nowhere

This has been going on for years although people aren't doing it so much now.

I was thinking of killing land units that leave the map. Every few seconds land units that were about 500 elmos outside the map edge would be destroyed. This is because any unit tossed off the edge of the map will appear unharmed on the map edge.

I heard (might be wrong) that fall damage doesn't exist anymore because engine devs noticed that units were damaging themselves while moving around. This is because they now bounce so much that with old fall damage they took damage just while moving around. The "fix" was fall damage removal,

Oops turns out that was wrong. I've now overridden fall damage and unit bounce such that they are reasonable values. Also units take damage if they land outside the map.

sumorain FTW!

Wait, isn't skuttlerain more effective?

If you build a reliable enough newton cannon, it is very easy to select your jumpy unit and have it jumpjet right into the center of a base. You don't have to put effort into timing either - just bind a key to jump, and while the unit is still airborne, place a jump command where you want it. If the units jump order intersects its flight path it will land automagically.

Using sumos isn't so great actually, they fall slower so you tend to be able to see them coming. Skuttles and jacks are better?

Another interesting thing to launch is artillery, like catapults. On a low enough gravity map (duck trololol) you can practically put one in orbit and use it as bombardment! This never makes cost but is still funny.

I suggested unit launcher, a static device cost some metal to launch units into air with a pad like the air version surfboard but with about 1000m distance.

one more thing you can consider to launch is the Dirtbag - fun fun fun to launch!

A gravity cloud would so much more usefull.

We should have a test-unit to initialise our first Newton and inherit the calibration on other Newton turrets.

This test unit is invisibly spawned above Newton and get attacked a fixed time.
Once it doesn't fly away too slow/fast we have a calibration value for Newton - have every time the same "map gravity".

If we have an Elevator unit, we could give it load and unload zones.
It should pick up units from it's load zone and throw it in the right direction and arcing to the unload zone.

@nubtron,
You wouldnt need to calibrate manually. You can pull the gravity value directly, and calculate the required force.