A few suggestions Options

[Bittah Commander]

Here's just a few requests/suggestions...

• A superweapons allowed multiplayer option (checkbox).
• A superweapon launch anim.
• Air strikes (possibly you could adapt the Hunter Seeker's logic for this).
• EMPulseSparkles= moved from [AudioVisual] to the (EMP) weapon or warhead (this way the visual effect an EMP weapon has on a vehicle can differ per weapon).
• Sticky anims (warhead animations that stick to units, just like the EMP sparkles). It might be useful to know that when you add Next= to EMP_FX01 (the default EMP sparkle anim), the animation specified after Next= will stick to the unit when it moves.
• the Shockwave from Ion Cannon to be made optional (so it can either be disabled for the Ion Cannon or be assigned to other weapons).
• Dogfights
• The possiblity for units to pick multiple (possibly have a definable limit) firepower or armor power-ups, just like in Sole Survivor (it's already possible with speed upgrades I believe). Currently when a unit that already picked up a firepower upgrade or armor upgrade picks up another crate which is supposed to contain a firepower or armor upgrade, it'll be a money crate instead (even if money crates are turned off).
• ROF power-ups (also like in Sole Survivor).
• The option for stealth crates to be temporary (so units that pick up a stealth crate will uncloak again after a certain amount of time). If reversing the effects of a stealth crate is not possible, maybe have a stealth crate attach an invisible sticky anim to the unit which after a certain amount of time (set via a number of invisible frames and framerate) jumps to another invisible sticky anim with 1 frame (via Next=) which deals 1 damage point, then jumps to another invisible sticky anim with 1 frame which heals 1 damage point and constantly keeps looping these 2 single frame anims.
  I believe animations can't heal units however, which brings me to my next point...
• Animations that can heal units (like weapons or particle systems can).
• The ability to select a target for a hunter seeker (like you would do with any other super weapon). This would for example allow modders to modify the hunter seeker into a missile which can be shot down for (or just a plain hunter seeker which attacks the target you want it to attack). I'd suggest the possibility for normal missiles to be shot down... But I doubt there's even a point in bothering

[Bittah Commander]

A different palette for every building... Would be neat if that'd work, but I wonder whether it'd be lag-free considering it'll put some load on the engine.

Planning a Sole Survivor mode for DTA I see, or at least seems like it.

Actually I planned to do that quite a while ago, but I quickly dropped the idea again when I found units couldn't pick up more than 1 powerup (which is why I came up with the survivor maps DTA has right now). But yeah, if the proper hacks are done, I'll certainly reconsider adding a Sole Surivor mode to DTA (being able to pally with fog of war instead of shroud would also be beneficial for this).

This brings me to another point however... The ability to either chose between game modes or to have the choice between more than just TS and FS in the TS/FS selection menu.
Also, certain things from Rules.ini aren't read in Firestrm.ini; I don't know exactly which ones, but I know houses is one of them. Would it be possible to get TS to read the houses (and everything else that's not accepted by firestrm.ini) from Firestrm.ini when playing firestorm?