Yep, those are pretty much the reasons i wasn't happy with it!
Here's some thoughts for anyone who wants to improve it
It feels like the shooters have a huge advantage over the defenders, I could barely find any blue land and had no problem finding huge red areas....
Easy fix - I done it on purpose. In the spawn.lua file where it sets up the the territory markers this can be changed. I done that because I got the feeling the defenders had a huge advantage (and for a challenge)! That might have been because of the player... or maybe because Mobs_redo treats Monsters (shooters) and NPCs (defenders) differently (maybe...)
Furthermore, the NPCs don't seem too eager to conquer any territory. Most of them just stay around one place and wait.
Thats Mobs_redo behaviour. They need some extra function to send them after the enemy, or to seek out and convert enemy territory markers, or even just a swarming function (I talk about that kind of stuff in my Self Organizing systems modpack) so they stick together and move around as a group.
The Autocannon is too OP. Vehicules are generally much too hard to beat, even with the best weapons.
Easy fix - lower their hit points. (although I recommend the flamethrower... make them stand there in the flames and burn)
Also I don't know why but I never really found a correct ranged weapon in minetest for as long as I played. Here we have riffles that shoot snail bullets, so you shoot several of them and wait for them to reach the enemy, where most of the time, it will just go through it. Also I could never even land one hit with the flamethrower.
This was my main problem with it. Doing guns by adding entities or particles as bullets is a failed approach. I couldn't make them fast without issues. Slow is ridiculous. They hit other bullets, the rain, smoke... (never use a bazooka in the rain! Boom!)
... Air markers are a good idea, but you should have more ways to influence them...
Yeah, the mobs need to be more proactive about finding and converting them (instead of randomly wandering). Markers could be made to dissappate much quicker (to prevent stalemate... and combined with factories/victory points that ensure the mobs don't die out by accident (like how the drones are currently done)
EDIT PS: about the guns, it would make sense that one would use the game mechanics of doom to make guns in minetest : when the gun is fired, the game checks if there is an enemy pointed why the cross at that moment and then applies the damages immediately. It would sure make it run better and faster if well done.
Yeah - this is the way. Just... I have no idea how that would be coded!
I really hope somebody takes on the development of this.
So do I, it is fun, even despite it's flaws.
