Update 31: Smells Rank news - C&C: Shockwave Chaos mod for C&C: Generals Zero Hour

Remember last time when the entire ranking system was changed? Let's change it again.

Changes:

General:

• Redid the entire ranking structure, again
• There are 10 total ranks
• Completely reworked all experience gains and requirements for structures and units
• Reduced the amount of experience gained when destroying vehicles and infantry
• Increased the amount of experience gained when destroying structures and base defenses
• Infantry and vehicles require less experience to gain veterancy

The rework changes the priorities for targeting and unit spam. Feel free to spam lots of units. It will take a long time to rank up by only killing infantry and vehicles. Destroying structures gives far more exp, and allows you to rank up much faster.

Chinese Factions:

• Reworked Hackers and Hacker Vans to work with the new experience system
• Hacker Vans are now independent money generators that must deploy to bring in cash
• Hacker Vans do not come with hackers, instead, you must deploy them via button
• Changed the collection rates for Hackers
• Hackers outside the Internet Center produce money slower than a Hacker Van
• Hackers inside the Internet Center produce money far faster than a Hacker Van, and are more cost effective as a result
• Hacker Vans can gain veterancy to increase the cash generated per tick
• Added Dial-up sounds

Covert Officers:

• Decreased the number of blinking light particles on Officer minefields, as they have 5 landmines per chunk, not 8
• Officer minefields now self destruct after 2 minutes
• This is to help performance, as each blinking light counts towards the particle cap

Salvage General:

• War Truck damage decreased, from 90 to 70
• War Truck range reduced, from 310 to 290
• War Truck secondary damage radius decreased, from 25 to 15
• War Truck anti-air weapon range decreased, from 500 to 400
• War Truck speed reduced, from 50 to 45
• Look, the War Truck was insanely good, okay. This is necessary.

Misc:

• Added extra stuff that might be used later
• Removed some old and unused code

Important:

This may be the last Chaos Mod update for some time. I am beginning some college/uni soon. I will be very busy focusing on my education. I polished off the things I wanted to with this update, and refined some major things that I meant to do long ago.

Thank you kindly for playing Chaos Mod. I do not plan on ending or discontinuing the mod. Things need to be put on hold, though. I can't give an accurate estimation for when the next update will be released. I may have more (or less) time to work on it once I get settled into classes.

Feel free to join the NLS Public Discord for a Chaos Mod related discussion channel. I'll probably still be active there. You can also find an Excel Spreadsheet with the exact details on all the rank and experience changes. Hope you like numbers.

Thanks for playing <3