Fix: Spawn SCUD Storm Hole Worker after Toxin Puddle disappears - after 30 seconds instead of 20 seconds

[xezon]

• Closes Fix: Worker Dies First Time Trying To Rebuild Scud Storm #1095
• Fixes Anthrax poison kills first Worker in GLA SCUD Storm Rebuild #757
• Fixes Demo GLA Scud Storm rebuilds around 20 seconds quicker than all other SCUD Storms #758

This change spawns the SCUD Storm Hole worker in 30 seconds instead of 20 seconds intervals. This will prevent the first worker from dying in the poison. No EVA event is triggered for damaging the spawned worker. Effectively a SCUD Storm can rebuild 10 seconds quicker than originally. The Toxin Field time has been adjusted to accommodate the Worker spawn time properly.

Object	Build Time	Repair Time	Hole Repair Time	Toxin Field Time
Original USA Particle	60	60 max
Original China Nuke	60	60 max
Original GLA SCUD	120	120 max	160	30
Original Demo GLA SCUD	120	120 max	160	30
Patched Demo GLA SCUD (1)	120	120 max	140
Patched GLA SCUD (this)	120	120 max	150	26
Patched Demo GLA SCUD (this)	120	120 max	150

Note: It is not possible to use an external worker to continue repair a GLA building from GLA hole. Therefore the reduction in Toxin Field time is practically inconsequential.

This proposal was originally discussed in:

• Fix: Worker Dies First Time Trying To Rebuild Scud Storm #793

Original

Worker spawns in the Toxin and dies.

Patched

Worker spawns just as the Toxin disappears.

scud_storm_worker.mp4

[xezon]

Exile:

I'm willing to settle on 30 seconds

Jundiyy:

Well I think 30s is fair as well.
In original ZH, Scud repairs to 2%, so it gets some extra hp.
With a 30s delay, it means, for them 10 seconds, it won't have that hp.
This is still 10s faster than ZH but now with a small cost. So yea, 30s seems fair.

[commy2]

Why would the Worker come up for the Scud Storm later than for other buildings though? This change breaks consistency all for a super minor balance thing that essentially never comes into play.

[xezon]

The Worker comes after the Toxin Puddle clears. If he comes before that, he dies. I do not think the consistency argument is a strong argument. Logically Worker waits until Toxin Puddle is gone, so it is ok if it takes longer than other buildings. Other buildings do not spawn a Toxin Puddle.

If we would change Toxin Puddle from 30 seconds to 20 seconds, then that would require new Toxin Puddle setup and we would introduce inconsistent Puddle Times.

[xezon]

I optimized timings. Worker now spawns in 30000 ms instead of 30100 ms, and the Toxin Field timings are individually tweaked for Scud Storm to accommodate first spawning Worker. Video attached.

[xezon]

Someone shall Approve this, then I will merge. Jundiyy, Exile and I are in favor of this. commy2 not in favor, because of hole worker spawn time inconsistency.

[commy2]

The technical aspects work.

[ImTimK]

I optimized timings. Worker now spawns in 30000 ms instead of 30100 ms, and the Toxin Field timings are individually tweaked for Scud Storm to accommodate first spawning Worker. Video attached.

Is it 30s for all buildings though?

[xezon]

For all Scud Storms.