EggPlant Chat Commands

Let EggPlant decide which research path to take

You can fine-tune research activities - see "Research" section for more info. 

Machineguns and rockets

Hard advance - Builds defence structures as it advances to hold territory

Soft advance - Doesn't build defences as it advances

Request urgent military support at your base, you don't need a beacon – it knows where your base is.

EggPlant doesn't like to lose allies – after all they help with research and military stuff, so it will try extra hard to assist in some way.

It will first look for enemy units near your base (specifically within 20 tiles of your HQ) and work out the best way to help. Sometimes it might decide to attack the enemy that's attacking you in order to distract them, other times it will send units to support your base.

Request general military support at the beacon.

If the area has sensor coverage, EggPlant will be able to make much better decisions as to what sort of help is needed and is also more likely to send help.

Request anti-aircraft support at the beacon.

Request anti-personnel support at the beacon, useful for dealing with enemy cyborg infestations.

Request CB (counter-battery) radar droid at the beacon.

Sometimes EggPlant will build a CB tower instead.

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.radar

Request a sensor droid at the beacon.

Sometimes EggPlant will build a sensor tower instead.

Request VTOL bomber run at the beacon.

EggPlant's bombers can be devastating, but don't make the mistake of sending them in to an area filled with enemy AA defences!

Tip: EggPlant loves bombing enemy cyborg groups

.strike

.attack

Request air strike at the beacon.

Let EggPlant decide what sort of VTOLs to send. In some cases it may even choose to send land units.

.laser

.lassat

Request laser satellite strike at the beacon. Only available after Laser Satellite Command Post is researched and built.

EggPlant will reply immediately if it decides to strike and is able to do so quickly.

Request military escort for the unit you've currently got selected. If you have a group selected, EggPlant will pick one of the units in the group and escort that. Works best when EggPlant has lots of VTOLs.

Tip: EggPlant likes escorting transporters.

Tell EggPlant to retreat any units within 10 tiles of the beacon.

Useful for breaking up traffic jams or avoiding a pointless/undesirable battle.

Tell EggPlant troops nearby to run away from the beacon. If you place the beacon in the middle of the troops, they'll scatter away from the beacon.

Useful for breaking up traffic jams or minimising deaths due to enemy VTOL bombers.

Indicate a good place for choke point defences.

Make sure your beacon is "behind" the choke point from the perspective of the direction the enemy will approach it from. This is because EggPlant likes to place mortars, arty and missiles behind land obstacles.

If it can work out where the narrow part of the choke point is (something that it struggles with) it might even build some hardpoints and gates, but often you'll have to help by doing that construction yourself.

.outpost

Suggest a defensive outpost at the beacon. A defensive outpost includes structures like:

• Sensor tower
• AA defences
• Indirect weapon structures (arty, mortar, missiles)
• CB tower (if building arty/missile structures)
• Occasionally repair facilities or VTOL rearming pads will also be created

Request that an EggPlant-owned oil derrick is demolished so you can take over the oil resource.

EggPlant is more likely to do this if:

• The oil is near your territory
• You have fewer than 6 oil resources or EggPlant has plenty of oil resources

An alternate might be to request power transfers (see later).

Indicate a construction site that's only available by air-lifting trucks/engineers in using a transporter.

EggPlant really struggles to identify such locations and normally avoids them, so indicating where they are is a good way to kick start some construction at the location.

Encourage EggPlant to gain territory in the general direction of the beacon. This works much better if there is a straight land path between existing EggPlant territory and the location of the beacon.

Ask EggPlant for some power. It will transfer some if it can, particularly if it has much higher oil income than you.

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Ask EggPlant to transfer some units to you.

If a beacon is placed, it will be more likely to transfer units near the beacon, otherwise it will choose at random.

Ask EggPlant to transfer a construction truck (or engineer cyborg) to you. It's much more likely to do this if you have less than 5 trucks.

If you get killed during a team match, getting a truck from EggPlant will effectively revive you and get you back in to the game, so this is a very useful command to remember!

Place a beacon near the desired truck, or let EggPlant choose one at random.

List current research activities.

Research towards a particular topic, or upgrades for the topic if already available.

Available topic choices include...

Weapon focus:

• weapons or wep – improve current weapons
• aa – anti-aircraft weapons/defences
• ap – anti-personnel weapons/defences
• at – anti-tank weapons/defences
• as – anti-structure weapons/defences
• indirect or ind – indirect fire weapons

Weapon branches:

• mg – machine guns
• fla – flamers, incendiaries
• can – cannons
• rox – rockets
• mor – mortars
• art – howitzers
• mis – missiles
• las – lasers
• bom – vtol bombs

Weapon upgrades:

• rof – rate of fire
• dmg – damage
• acc – accuracy / targeting

Some common milestones:

• lancer – lancer rocket
• tk – tank killer rocket
• ww – whirlwind
• ripple – ripple rockets
• seraph – seraph missiles
• arch – archangel missiles
• storm – stormbringer
• lassat – laser satellite command post

Hit Points:

• hp – better HPs (let EggPlant decide which to go for)
• walls – stronger defence structures
• base – stronger base structrues
• therm – stronger droid thermal armour
• kin – stronger droid kinetic armour

Propulsions:

• prop – research more propulsions (let EggPlant decide what to go for)
• borg – cyborg propulsion (or better cyborg armour if already avail)
• ht – half-tracks propulsion
• hover – hover propulsion
• track – tracks propulsion
• vtol – vtol propulsion, or faster rearming if vtol already available

Bodies:

• tank – better tank/vtol bodies and armour
• borg – research cyborgs, or improve their HPs/body if already available

Sensors:

• ws – wide spectrum sensor
• sat – satellite uplink center
• cb – cb radar
• ecm – ecm jammer (if available depending on WZ version)

Production:

• power – power modules / upgrades
• fac – factory modules / upgrades
• res – reseach modules / upgrades

If a beacon is placed, EggPlant will try and abort any activities its doing near the beacon.

If no beacon is placed, EggPlant will try and abort whatever it was doing to fulfil your last request.

Ask EggPlant to indicate the nearest free oil resource to your beacon or, if you didn't place a beacon, the nearest free oil resource to your HQ.