Well, first of all there is no tech level 10 in DTA; tech level 7 is the highest

The Hover MLRS can only just out-range base defences and it's also GDI's only unit that can do this. Decreasing its range and then reintroducing the rocket launcher as GDI's artillery unit would make GDI a bit too similar to Nod again in my opinion, while right now there's a bit of diversity; only Nod has artillery, while GDI has a bit more powerful units and better access to certain spots on the maps. The Hover MLRS also serves as GDI's second ship (Nod has a heavy long-range ship and a light close-range ship, while GDI has a heavy medium-range ship and the Hover MLRS (which has a similar range to Nod's close-range ship). Also, the Hover MLRS's missiles are only about as effective against infantry as tank shells are, so the fact they out-range infantry is really the only thing that makes them powerful against infantry. I do agree that maybe increasing the price of a Hover MLRS to about 1200 might be a good idea however.

Actually, Nod's Chinook can carry vehicles just the same, meaning the only difference between the Carryall and the Chinook is their flight speed (the Carryall is a bit faster). So assuming you didn't already know that, there shouldn't really be an issue now, but I'll just comment on your suggestions anyways.

To be honest a subterranean MCV sounds rather silly and quite overpowered as well, considering there's no way to detect subterranean units in DTA. Imagine a subterranean MCV popping up in the middle of (or next to) your base, which then starts spamming obelisks around it. It also will be able to get anywhere on the map completely unnoticed.

Yes... I've already done this In fact I already did this before I released DTA 1.10, but something went wrong when I used XCC Mixer to import the rules_dta.ini file into local.mix after I made the change, because of which the old file was kept

The Apaches are actually exactly like they are in TD and their role is pretty much the same as that of Harpies in TS (which is no surprise, considering Harpies are actually just Apaches with a different name). They are indeed worthless for attacking the buildings of a base that has any kind of AA around whatsoever, but they're of course still quite effective against infantry (not that infantry need anything powerful to counter them) and they can take down lightly armored vehicles as well.
I'll considering giving Apaches missiles or possibly something else in the enhanced mode to make them a little more useful.

Well, in case you didn't realize this yet, I replaced Nod's SSM Launcher with a "Missile Launcher". So basically the "Surface to Surface Missile Launcher" became a normal missile launcher (meaning it can attack both ground and air) and it's pretty effective against aircraft too. I personally don't really think anything needs to be changed about the A10 Warthogs, but if more people feel they're really overpowered, I'll consider it.

Actually, the Advanced Guard Tower has exactly the same range as the Obelisk. I'll think about increasing the power consumption however.

Actually, walls are supposed to counter it. If you wall your Construction Yard in and place a wall around your base, you'll just have to place a couple infantry in the openings of the walls and any Phase Tank that tries to get through will be detected. I'd personally just scatter some infantry and defenses around my base however.

The artillery has already slightly been changed for the next version, although differently from how you suggested it. I personally think there's no need to make it any weaker.

- The UAV is meant to find that very last hidden or cloaked unit of your opponent when Short Game isn't turned on. I agree it's a bit annoying at the moment, but it's been improved for the next version.
- Nod's APCs are to stay, considering they don't have a build limit, while the Phase Tank does.
- Nod's buggy is meant for mowing down infantry and it does a pretty good job at it too I'd say.
- Hum-vee; same story.

Well, first of all, in Tiberian Sun the credits always have to be stored somewhere. So this means that if the building that stores the credits is destroyed, just like with a refinery or silo, you will lose the credits that were stored in that building. So in the end there isn't really any way to completely remove the need to build tiberium storage buildings that's really practical.
However, it does open some extra room for strategies. Destroying your opponent's refinery or full silo will give him quite a setback and you can also capture his silo with an engineer (or 3 engineers, if multi-engineer has been enabled) to steal his credits.

I originally actually intended to make Nod's hijackers able to steal money from silos, but unfortunately it's impossible for infantry to steal credits from buildings without capturing it first with Tiberian Sun's engine.

Making artilleries unable to attack infantry actually is possible, although that really isn't a good idea in my opinion. Lowering the damage artillery units do to infantry is a better option, but I honestly actually don't like that idea much either.
However, lowering the price of infantry to about half their current price does sound pretty interesting. I'll give it a try to see if it's likable.

a light MCV cant be made? like the krane(i dont remember well the name) in command and conquer 3, this make expand more easy.

It's possible, although I can't specify what buildings it can construct (it's either all buildings or no buildings at all). So the best thing that could be done is just making it so that you can build next to it after it's deployed, but still don't think making it subterranean is a good idea (plus, considering both GDI and Nod have Carryalls and can both re-deploy their MCVs, this unit isn't necessary anyway).

well, I see your point about the diversity. However, pushing it as far as allowing GDI to bounce around the map with only one type of unit goes a little to easy on the micro-management IMO. As NOD, you need your artillery to bust defenses and to a certain point even tanks, AA to try (and fail) to keep the A10s from busting your artillery in one go and tanks to defend against other tank armies (not the microwaves though for obvious reasons). That sure takes some effort to manage while as GDI, all you have to do is kicking around one cloud of hover mlrs'.



Right, didn't know about the chinooks capabilities. never mind, then



well, as you said, in enhanced mode, there ain't scary infantry and on that tech level (7, i was told ) there are only rarely light vehicles since they are usually used to counter infantry & scouting stuff.
I suggest to give it fewer rockets than the okra has and to keep em shooting infantry with the minigun (having it load two kinds of ammo would be cool of course, but if it doesn't work make the gun-ammo infinite) so it still feels different. (this works best with my infantry suggestions further down the post, I guess)




well, I see two problems here: the first one lays in any anti-air unit: it only makes full use of its range in time, if you order it manually to fire on the target witch can be difficult depending on the gamespeed. if you have em in stand-by or guard-mode it takes crucial splits of seconds before it starts aiming (and yes, I am nit-picking ). And, of course, if your AA is on the move, they will never know what hit em.
the second thing that makes A10s so dangerous vs NOD is that they deliver too much damage at once against tank armies - destroying the light NOD vehicles (especially the artillery) in the process.
so that's why, by the time you took them down, its mostly too late - at least for your artillery.


I haz been fooled by ze massive X-Axiz I guezz >__<'


thought about the extra skin because of the A10s D:



Right. Good Point. D:


*mumble* m'kay >.<



well, since I have infantry-pimping plans, I shall not whine on this matter - for now :>



well, how about giving it a little more weight by increasing capacity, price and armor to about 2-3 times of the current one? makes it a very attractive target that demands some more serious efforts than an ion-beam to take it down



I haz ideaz! How about fusing rocket soldier and mini-gunner? Same speed as mini-gunner, price-tag of 150-250$ and maybe increased flak-range. Assault rifle vs infantry, rockets vs air&armor. In this tank-mania it actually makes sense, unless you plan to make standard infantry _really_ cheap. Also, it might be a good idea to reduce the explosion range of both the flamers and the grenadiers since they tend to blow up in a cascade if you kill only one of a squad (which rather amuses me but meh ^^ )

Edit: A minigunner with a grenade launcher might also be something to consider since a rocket coming from a machine gun might look funny.

The diference will be the tech/cost/time to build it, if it cant build the cost of production can be much less and will have less danger than move the MCV and need less tech.