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The Advanced Emitter is by far one of the most complex VWC units among the project, featuring advanced behavior for something seemingly simple as an emitter. The purpose of the Advanced Emitter was to combat the issue of thresholds where the Rift Lab user would be held back until they reached a critical mass where it was all over before anything was lost on the side of the Creeper. When Creeper is rapidly destroyed on the map, the Advanced Emitter boosts emission rate in hopes to compensate for the loss.
You may be wondering why it doesn't always emit at max emission, this is because there are actual disadvantages for emitting so much Creeper from one emitter. Mainly bottleneck holds where all the Creeper gets stuck in the area of the Advanced Emitter and not the entire map due to a hard hold, leaving the other areas left to dry out.
The intent of the Advanced Emitter is to keep the pressure on the Rift Lab user from start to finish.
There is also the stronger reason of <DATA_EXPUNGED>.
There is no standard stats for a non-VPAC mission for the Advanced Emitter. Only the map maker will know as they are who defined the stats of the Advanced Emitter. However, the VPAC stats are not the default stats so swapping from VPAC to Creeper World, all you need to do is press the red X in a red circle. Swapping from Creeper World to VPAC however involves the VPAC stats below.
When an Advanced Emitter is placed and active, it records how much total Creeper is on the map and remembers that number, constantly updating it if the total amount exceeds the previous “record”. When Creeper falls below that recorded number, the Advanced Emitter begins to emit more Creep. When the current Creeper is only 15% of the recorded total Creeper, the Advanced Emitter will be at max emission rate of 712.5/0.5sec in a VPAC mission.
This is not based on Creeper coverage unlike the Reclaim Objective. This is also completely liable to change by the map maker.
This may actually need to be rethought and overhauled. So pay no attention to the MVerse behavior of Advanced Emitters for now.
Also, technically everything is MVerse compatible due to how MVerse works. No, seriously, you can play my, (Vertu), VPAC maps in MVerse and probably any other map. Everything will duplicate to X amount of players and each player has their own VPAC operating for them. KnuckleKracker really did a great job in making MVerse so it works in as many situations as possible. If, however, something does not seem to be working, just tell me, (Vertu). Message me on the Forums or @ me on the CW4 Discord in MapMakingChatter.
The CW4 Emitter emits onto 8 cells although it is a 3×3 unit (9 cells). It randomly picks one of the 9 cells to not place Creeper on, presumably to add a bit of variance in emission though the result is mostly meaningless. This made replicating the vanilla Emitter in the Advanced Emitter very annoying as the math never lined up until this was discovered during its development.
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