Engineers

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Basically in the thread I mentioned road engineers,then it was mentioned its out of the game scale.Just made me think that if the game was ,as close as possible,true to scale all non scale units/features would have to go for it to be true to scale kind of thing including some original features/options...

Instead of throwing out the "baby with the bath water" how about coding engineers to properly fit scale. If a bridge can be built, as Glint showed, in two hours (which is twenty game turns), then code the engineers to take twenty or more turns to erect the bridge?
How about coding the engineers to take longer clearing mines?
Then add your road building engineers and estimate how long it would take to build a serviceable road and have them take that amount of time?

Arguing to the absurd works in some discussions. Taking out all the stuff that is not in scale would be.
My point through this, and previous, debate is that scale should be respected.
Some players took the tact of saying that scale should be up to the scenario designers. Gosh if they make a game that reflects 10 hour turns and a weeks worth of action but both sides have a chance of winning so I will ignore the game's scale, it's all right with me. That is like saying as long as everyone agrees and is doing 90 in a 35 mph zone it is not breaking the law?
Sorry scale is the parameter law of the game.

I've always had issue with mine clearing and now sowing, as being out of the time scale. But, it was never considered serious enough to be a problem that the Matrix Team would address.
Engineers laying smoke over an entire 250m area, in six minutes, is also a bit much. But, it has been part of the game since the beginning of the game.

I'm more interested in the developers respecting game scale when "adding new units". And, scenario designers respecting scale in their scenario designs.

I may have played some of the out of scale scenarios, but I always look at them as 6 minutes per turn and 250 meters per hex.



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