How many photon cannons/sunkens/bunkers/turrets can you stack before they freeze?

[SarahK]

I have no idea

odd how stuff freezes too, I mean when there's a huge amount of buildings like turrets, I know they stop working.. but when there's above a certain amount stacked in a certain place (you know, the trick: hotkey peon, make yourself blind with a map trigger, then place building in fog of war) they stop working - yet it's fine below that amount

is there a set amount or is it just kinda random? anyone know? it's all a bit confusing

[DarkLStrike]

You know, it only freezes when the map is cluttered with sprites (I.E. unit weapon missiles, unit sprites, special abliity sprites etc.). If you control tons (200 or more) of wraith to attack some units, the units or the wraith might stop attacking. It is useless to freeze units like marines/ghost/corsairs because they dont have weapon missiles, their attack is to "appear on target" instead of "fly to, etc..."

Turrents might get freezed if there are soo many of them and they all attack at once.

[MidnightGladius]

Actually, "Appear on Target" weapons are sprites, too - only things like lings/ultras can attack correctly under sprite max.

[DarkLStrike]

I know "Appear On Target" are sprites too.

I think they've got priority to attack in front of the other attacks such as "fly to, homing, boucing, or spin"

I think every melee unit cept archon can evade sprite max.

oops double post. Nvm its merged...

[SuiCidAl-KiSmEt]

It's really hard to tell. I think it doesn't matter how much 1 player has something stacked, if the game reaches the spirite limit, which I think is 1650, it can't creat anymore spirits, causing some units to stop attacking.

[SarahK]

Ok weird, a few people were saying my stuff was freezing when I had only about 6 cannons stacked on top of each other

[SuiCidAl-KiSmEt]

lol. Just 6 is just not going to happen, unless of course, someone else has 200 stacked somewhere, it would effect other people.

[DarkLStrike]

I concur, sprite max just doesnt happen if there is only six cannons stacked or unstacked.