Ok as some of you may know, my mod should have ships.... I planned that big ships should be able to break trough ice. However, the results were not satisfying. I tried to overweight the test vehicle which had a speedtype modded to be only ice and water. It should have worked like the unit goes to ice, and it instantly breaks, leaving the unit to swim goes on ice again etc. But the unit just SINKS no matter what u do. I know this isn't actually useful, but may save time to some ppl. Also if u find a solution let us know.

There's a much more serious problem behind that. You would have to avoid using MovementRestrictedTo, since this key allows only one entry (both, Ice and Water can't be set at the same time).

Since there is no special MovementZone for naval units (that's why we use MovementRestrictedTo=Water in the first place) and you're bound to use an amphibious movementzone, does the unit see other terrains as passable terrain too. 0% on the specific ground speedtype only makes the unit immobile on this ground, but doesn't prevents it from trying to move on it during the pathfinding process.

Thus, every time you would order a unit to move to a far location, it can by accident try to move on the 0% speed ground and this way get stuck on this ground. And there would be no way to free the unit again (except maybe via the carryall).


If you want an ice breaker, you could try giving the unit a long lasting invisible area fire particlesystem. This would keep emitting fire particles even when the unit starts to move and could this way remove the ice around the unit.

This post has been edited by Lin Kuei Ominae: Nov 15 2010, 10:21 PM

uhm well the fire thing is a good idea but fire keeps damaging things afaik. otherwise it wasnt an experiment of creating useable ships but to make a unit crack ice then swim then crack next path of ice etc.