Packet types

[UpperKEES]

Just wanted to let you all know that I use all the packet filters a lot, especially for competing in the Chronom History Tournament. The filter for the totem packets is most useful, but I also use the ammo and build packet filters in certain situations.

For people who don't mind very precise micromanagement to obtain the highscore: when you fly OC over collectors you'll notice that you'll often loose packets when a link between OC and a collector is lost. Disabling ammo and/or build packets for just a fraction of a second will prevent this loss and may gain you that one second you're looking for. Of course this is only useful for maps with completion times less than ~3 minutes when every single packet counts.

[Fisherck]

All true. In the Chronum maps, of the few that I stick around long enough to see a spore wave, I will disable the ammo packets, so the SAMs will not refill, then when the spores are gone, manually deactivate the SAMs and enable the ammo packets.

[UpperKEES]

Yep, or when you build a SAM just for bridging you don't want it to charge with ammo packets, so you disable these just before it finishes building, deactivate it and enable the red packets again.