[FEATURE REQUEST] Collisions with weight of units

[Reptudn]

Collisions

but with more strategy

general idea

• each unit has a weight
• the heavier a unit is the harder it is to push
• when a unit with weight 100 tries to push a unit with a weight of 200 it doesnt work and the other unit just stays in place
  • to fight against a heavier unit you need to either destroy it or use 2 units or more that their combined weight is heavier than the one from the heavy unit
• when spawning they dont get pushed yet so there has to be be better spawning logic implemented which for collisions in mandatory either way

Pros

• you can build walls of some kind of unit
• if you push in groups you dont nessecarily need to destroy other units because you can just push an break through the enemy lines
• generally there is more logic instead of just running trough and being pushed around by any other unit

Cons

• How is the pushing handled?
  • Do the units that want to push have all to touch the unit they want to push away?
  • when a unit runs and another unit with the same or higher speed runs straight behind the front unit gets some of the base weight of the other unit and is so able to push more and the other unit behind looses some of their actual weight

Example config

UnitConfig {
            name: String::from("Warrior"),
            type_id: 1,
            cost: ?,
            hp: ?,
            dmg_core: ?,
            dmg_unit: ?,
            dmg_resource: ?,
            max_range: ?,
            min_range: ?,
            speed: ?,
	   base_weight: 50,
	   actual_weight: 55, // the worker is pushing from behind so this unit gets some weight bonus to push other units
        },
        UnitConfig {
            name: String::from("Worker"),
            type_id: 2,
            cost: ?,
            hp: ?,
            dmg_core: ?,
            dmg_unit: ?,
            dmg_resource: ?,
            max_range: ?,
            min_range: ?,
            speed: ?,
	   base_weight: 30,
	   actual_weight: 25, // its lower than the base weight because it lend the weight to in this case the warrior
	},
}

[Reptudn]

also make the unit_size an per unit attribute so that some units like tanks are bigger for example and can be pushed easier with other units

[FreddyMSchubert]

Cool idea. Should be fairly easy to implement. As it stands, you can't push other units at all, you just get pushed. If you don't walk into someone, you'd never get pushed anywhere.
I would suggest though that if a unit with weight 100 tries to push a unit with a weight of 200, instead of the second unit not moving at all, it gets moved half as far. Otherwise, what if there's an archer surrounded by 4 tanks, it would be glitching around forever, never pushed anywhere. I think all units need to be pushed, just some less or more.
I didn't really undestand the base weight / actual weight thing.

[Reptudn]

i was thinking that the base weight is the normal weight of the unit and when someone from behind pushes that unit the unit that gets pushed gets some "force" applied to it so that it has slightly more "strength" against other units that it tries to push.

now that we have a unit size i dont know if we would still need that

EDIT:

unit weight is size dependent or it it something different that we can have small units but they are still heavy
-> splitting that for me sounds like the best way!