Tech Airport and Paratroopers

[RicerRiley]

20 years ago, I figured out how to make it for every Tech Airport you captured you would get an additional Paratrooper drop. I'm trying to figure out how but cannot. I thought it was in the INI but I'm starting to think its not.

[KuoKongQingYun]

In fact, Ra2's engine doesn't support this.
You can think of it as a Tech Airport that only unlocks a "Paratrooper Tech", and the "Tech" cannot be doubled like a unit. You can only register multiple ”Superweapon Techs" and then bind them to different buildings, like American Airport unlocking "Paratrooper 1" and Tech Airport unlocking "Paratrooper 2".

CNC: Generals supported the kind of feature you mentioned.

I'm not sure that some third-party patches can support the kind of feature you're talking about, like ARES.

[Cat]

Yup I know it's possible on Generals where each unit/structure can produce individual timed abilities. I can change the spy satellite (which every USA Command Center shares the same ability progress) to give it individual recharge like the radar van scan. I'm not too sure about Red Alert 2.

[wolfknight]

If I remember right you can do that but you have to do an edit into the game via the rules.ini inside of ra2.mix. Keep in mind this may have changed over the years.

[Nyerguds]

Nothing "changed over the years"; it's still the same game. Unless you're referring to maybe modders unlocking that, and then it'd be done with a cloned version of the ability per building, as the first reply said.

[Führer Klaus Schwab]

Maybe you could do it in RA2 but no in RA2Yr

[Righteous Renegade]

In both RA2 and RA2YR, there is only one way to have multiple paratroopers (In skirmishes not counting in campaigns). That is by playing as the Americans and capturing an airport tech building. So an airport tech building allows any nation to be like America, who if it gets its own airport gets double, cause 'Merica

[Cat]

OP was asking about modding the game to enable an extra paradrop ability for each tech airport acquired.

[Shadowfox]

In Ra2 and YR you can select America and get paratroopers as their country ability and double it up with the Tech airport to get 2 different paratrooper icons

[RicerRiley]

Originally posted by Righteous Renegade:

In both RA2 and RA2YR, there is only one way to have multiple paratroopers (In skirmishes not counting in campaigns). That is by playing as the Americans and capturing an airport tech building. So an airport tech building allows any nation to be like America, who if it gets its own airport gets double, cause 'Merica

Back then when I would play I would have three or more when I played as Americans.

[RicerRiley]

Originally posted by Shadowfox:

In Ra2 and YR you can select America and get paratroopers as their country ability and double it up with the Tech airport to get 2 different paratrooper icons

Back then when I would play I would have three or more when I played as Americans.

[Shadowfox]

Originally posted by RicerRiley:

Originally posted by Shadowfox:

In Ra2 and YR you can select America and get paratroopers as their country ability and double it up with the Tech airport to get 2 different paratrooper icons

Back then when I would play I would have three or more when I played as Americans.

I still play this game 3 times a week. i think your memory might be a little fuzzy unless it was another title like Generals or something

[Cat]

Originally posted by Shadowfox:

Originally posted by RicerRiley:

Back then when I would play I would have three or more when I played as Americans.

I still play this game 3 times a week. i think your memory might be a little fuzzy unless it was another title like Generals or something

I thought he was asking about how to mod it, not if it could be done in the original game.

[RicerRiley]

Originally posted by Shadowfox:

Originally posted by RicerRiley:

Back then when I would play I would have three or more when I played as Americans.

I still play this game 3 times a week. i think your memory might be a little fuzzy unless it was another title like Generals or something

Nah, I don't like generals so I don't play it. That is also about how much I play it now, I started playing it again last year because the oldest Command & Conquer game that would work on any of my computers since 2013 was Generals, which I don't like so zero reason to play.

[Ritsuka]

Originally posted by RicerRiley:

Originally posted by Righteous Renegade:

In both RA2 and RA2YR, there is only one way to have multiple paratroopers (In skirmishes not counting in campaigns). That is by playing as the Americans and capturing an airport tech building. So an airport tech building allows any nation to be like America, who if it gets its own airport gets double, cause 'Merica :winter2019coolyul:

Back then when I would play I would have three or more when I played as Americans.

this sounds liek a heavily modded game, cuz you only ever get two paradrops as america, one default and one from the tech airport, capturing more never gave more.