DropWar

DropWar turns every airdrop into a fight. The moment a supply drop touches the ground, a ring of scientist guards appears round it, and they shoot anyone who comes for it. The crate stays locked until every guard is dead.

Guards that stand in sensible places

Each guard's spot is found by looking straight down from the sky, so a guard always stands on top of the ground. It is never under it, inside a rock or down a cave. A spot is only used if it is:

• open ground or a low rock, and not too steep
• within a few metres up or down of the drop, so a drop on a hilltop keeps its guards on the top, not at the foot of the cliff
• dry, with no sea, river or lake
• clear of trees, rocks and buildings above head height
• out of every safe zone, and spaced apart from the other guards

A drop with little room gets fewer guards. One that lands in the sea may get none.

A real fight

Guards chase whoever attacks them, out to a distance you set (60 m by default), and then go back to their posts. You can switch chasing off so they hold their ground. A toast tells the killer and anyone nearby how many are down ("3 of 6 guards killed"). When the last one falls, the killer and their team are told the drop is yours.

Guards that are left alone leave a while after their drop is looted, or once it has stood unclaimed for the set time (30 minutes by default).

Set it up your way

The /dropwar panel has three tabs:

• GUARDS: how many guards each drop gets, the default scientist kind, and a list of loadouts. Pick each loadout's scientist kind, gun and ammunition from pictures, and give it a weight. Only ammunition that fits the gun is offered.
• SETTINGS: every setting as a stepper or a switch, applied at once.
• DROPS: every drop being guarded now, how many guards are left, a button to go there, and buttons to clear it. TEST DROP drops a crate beside you so you can watch it work.

Random airdrops and supply signal drops can each be switched on or off.

Survives restarts

Guarded drops are saved. After a reload or a restart, the guards still standing are put back round their crate with their guns, and the drop keeps the time it had left.

Languages

English, Russian, German, French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and Simplified Chinese are built in. Each player sees their own game language.

Every download is licensed to you and watermarked with your details.

• Scientist guards appear round every airdrop the moment it lands
• Crate locked until every guard is dead (switch)
• Guards stand on open, dry ground, never under it or in water
• Guards chase attackers up to a set distance, or hold their posts
• Weighted loadouts: scientist kind, gun and ammunition
• Only ammunition that fits the gun is accepted
• Guard health, damage and aim can all be changed
• Kill count toasts, and "the drop is yours" when the last guard falls
• Chat message saying where a guarded drop landed
• Random airdrops and supply signal drops switched separately
• Guards leave once the drop is gone or left unclaimed
• Guarded drops survive reloads and restarts
• In-game /dropwar panel with a test drop button
• Seven languages built in

1. Download DropWar.cs from My Plugins.
2. Drop it into oxide/plugins or carbon/plugins.
3. Grant the admin permission to whoever will set it up (server admins can use it anyway):

o.grant user <name> dropwar.admin

On Carbon use c.grant instead of o.grant. Players need no permission.

1. That is all. The next airdrop that lands gets guards. Type /dropwar in game to change the guards and their guns, or press TEST DROP on the DROPS tab to see it straight away.

The file name must stay DropWar.cs, because Oxide matches it to the class name.

The config is written to oxide/config/DropWar.json (or carbon/configs/DropWar.json) on first load. Everything in it can be changed from the /dropwar panel.

{
  "Guard random airdrops": true,
  "Guard supply signal drops": true,
  "Guards per drop": 6,
  "Nearest a guard stands to the drop (metres)": 6.0,
  "Farthest a guard stands from the drop (metres)": 20.0,
  "Least distance between two guards (metres)": 4.0,
  "Most a guard may stand above or below the drop (metres)": 8.0,
  "Steepest ground a guard stands on (degrees)": 35.0,
  "Default scientist kind": "scientistnpc_full_any",
  "Loadouts (each guard takes one at random, by weight)": [
    {
      "Scientist kind (empty = the default kind)": "",
      "Gun (empty = the kind's own)": "rifle.ak",
      "Ammunition (empty = the gun's own)": "ammo.rifle",
      "Weight (higher = picked more often)": 2.0
    },
    {
      "Scientist kind (empty = the default kind)": "",
      "Gun (empty = the kind's own)": "shotgun.pump",
      "Ammunition (empty = the gun's own)": "ammo.shotgun.slug",
      "Weight (higher = picked more often)": 1.0
    }
  ],
  "Guard health (0 = the kind's own)": 0.0,
  "Guard damage (x the kind's own)": 1.0,
  "Guard aim spread (x the kind's own; lower aims better)": 1.0,
  "Guards chase attackers (off: they hold their posts)": true,
  "How far a guard chases from its post (metres)": 60.0,
  "Drop cannot be looted until its guards are dead": true,
  "Guards' bodies carry the game's own loot": true,
  "Tell everyone in chat where a guarded drop landed": true,
  "Guards leave this long after their drop is gone (seconds)": 60.0,
  "Guards leave a drop nobody has come for after (minutes, 0 = never)": 30.0
}

Commands

Chat (dropwar.admin)

• /dropwar opens the settings panel (GUARDS, SETTINGS, DROPS)
• /dropwar status shows the settings and guarded drops as text
• /dropwar guards <n> sets the number of guards per drop
• /dropwar radius <min> <max> sets how far from the drop they stand, in metres
• /dropwar add <gun|own> [ammo|own] [kind] [weight] adds a loadout
• /dropwar remove <n> takes loadout n off the list
• /dropwar chase <on|off> guards chase attackers, or hold their posts
• /dropwar lock <on|off> the drop can be looted only once its guards are dead
• /dropwar test drops a supply crate beside you, from 50 m up
• /dropwar clear removes every guard and its crate now

Console (admin or RCON)

• dropwar <same words>
• dropwar.test <x> <z> drops a crate at a spot on the map

Permissions

• dropwar.admin lets a player use /dropwar and the dropwar console commands

Server admins can use them without it. Players need no permission to fight the guards or loot the drop.