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RECENT CHANGES:

-MELONS CAN TRAVERSE HILLS NOW AND NO LONGER GET STUCK
This is a huge change. I redid the melon movement to allow a very tight control over melon speeds. It is now super easy for me to tweak an individual melon types speed, without making it unable to go up a speedbump. Even the huge steep ramps of superstruct are now traverseable. This opens up many, many, more maps for play.

The melons DO NOT slow down going uphill, so to make the high ground still important this is balanced by the fact that melons can easilly lose control and slide back down the incline if they get pushed/exploded hard enough.

-Maps may now have multiple map feature (res nodes, cap points, uplink, etc.) configurations.
They can be randomly chosen each time or selected by number. This should make for far more replayability for each map. Hopefully I'll have at least a couple configurations for each map, with a few more for those popular maps like wm_castles. Maps can also contain information on the maximum team size, starting NRG, speed modifiers, capture point modifiers, resource node modifiers, and some other smaller stuff.

-Added warmup time
Server can set an amount of warmup time where players cannot command melons or gain NRG. This is there to allow slower computers to load the next map and not put them too far behind.

-Vehicles can now be spawned (just not the jeep, jalopy, and airboat).
Have fun piloting your creations guys! Wire adv dupe support is coming soon!

-Made damaged props maintain their team color while damaged.
A damaged blue prop with turn very dark blue instead of just gray/black.

-Found a crash related to loading the gm_superstruct map.

-Made my own server my crash resistant. It seems to be having an effect.

-Expanded the idiot proofing of help and chat commands.

-Laid groundwork for fog of war, though GMOD is fickle and will likely never allow it to work properly.

-Added support for spacebuild maps. Intergalactic conquest is now fully possible!

-On request I have started accepting donations to my paypal account l_a_p@hotmail.com.

I may be implementing some perks for donating. This is not Sassilizaition! I am not giving players anything that gives them an unfair advantage. Things I would give would be voting rights, reserved slots, custom melon skins, sounds, etc. I will continue development regardless of any money received. Thanks for your encouragement.

MAP ADDITIONS/CHANGES:

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-ose_tundra
A varied, all land, semi-symmetrical map
-ose_caves
Two configurations: Both are essentially the same, with resource nodes in the caves, but one version has an uplink in the middle while the other has more resource nodes (including a juicy unlimited one).
-ose_thebase_b1
Two configurations for this one. Each one has spawn points preset. One version is a four team brawl, the other is a six team match with one central player in a very powerful position
-ose_antlioncoast
A more linear version of wm_highlands
-wm_fogofwar
The alpha test of a new map by Shofixti. This is the first map made specifically for WM-RTS (oddly enough I told him to make it almost all flat...and then I fixed that problem). It was made in less than two days and it's his first map so be gentle. It's an assymetrical map bisected by a river. The fog in this map is pretty brutal like gms_stream.
-gms_affection
What was once too hilly is now fine and dandy.


Next up:
-Full adv dupe wire support
-Build time for superweapons and possibly ALL units (this is a huge change that should address the problems of instant defenses).
-Hud
-Timelimit
-Another victory condition
-Scenario creator
-More maps

Latest developments:

-Antithrowing code perfected and implemented. No more throwing ♥♥♥♥ around.

-Server limits for barracks/factories, props, and melons. Player info cards reflect that.

-Outposts now slowly heal all nearby melons and props. Barracks, heavy barracks, munitions factories, order cores, wheels, thrusters, and hoverballs can now be spawned in their radius. Outposts now better fulfill their roles as vehicle repair/rearm areas and fortifications. (Although also not a change I'd like to remind those who forgot, they can take NRG from harvesters.)

-Baseprop tool can now be right-clicked to modify the health (and therefore the weight) of any prop. Reload now checks cost of the primary fire.

-Forever fixed wire explosives, turrets, etc.

I may split the baseprop tool into two tools so that I can add another useful function. I'd like to make it so that the baseprop tool can select a model by copying it from the world, so that might come tomorrow. I'm still deciding on if I want to split it yet.

I might do some more stuff with the infocards. Putting some fun stats on there like "Total melons killed/lost" or "rounds/won or lost". I could easily make it save permanently and also have per match stats. I'd at least like to do the per match stats for melons lost/created/killed.

-Spawnpoints and outposts are buildable only on the world now.

-Fixed a lot of tool exploits including all the explosive ones

-Donator tool can donate by targeting a player with the toolgun

-Hoverballs, thrusters, and wheels can now be duplicated. They also have health, cost NRG, and are team colored. Wire versions temporarily disabled.

-Flak Cannons added! They knock flying melons out of the sky!

-Made bases huge! No more hiding it under a dumpster.

-Nocollide has been banned as have several other more obscure tools.

-Wire Forcer costs NRG (dependent of length and force)

-Spawnpoints and outposts need to have a line of sight to harvesters for them to deposit NRG.

-Help has been redone.

-Added some more help triggers.