[Solved] What is a Threat Ring ?

[:1]I've looked about quite a bit and I've never really found an answer to the question;
How do Threat Rings work ?
Does anyone have a definitive answer ?|||They are a carry over from the original supreme commander. Basically the more rings a unit had the higher the threat level. A T1 for instance 1 ring and a T4 could be 5 rings. These were picked up in the old ai brain threat map function. We used to be able edit the rings for the units via the unit Bp's.
In FA they changed from the threat map to an influence map. How they work with the new influence style map or if they even do anything at all anymore I am not sure but they are still included in a lot of functions . The Bp threat ring tag is gone in FA so perhaps the rings are now hard coded for the influence map.
Moe|||Thanks Moe. That was what I needed. Which raises the question of how to make the best use of the influence map.|||Actually, no. A unit does not have threat rings, a unit has a threat level.
Example: A Mass Extractor could have an Econ threat of 30. This means, in the threat grid that that Mass Extractor occupies, the AI will see 30 Econ threat.
Threat rings are used when obtaining the threat of an area. If I want the threat of a position I check the threat map with a ring radius of 0.
If I want the threat of a position and 1 adjacent grid position on all sides I choose a ring radius of 1. The command will then return the threat of the initial grid position plus the threat of all adjacent grids added together.
HTH|||AH! So just to make a clarification...what is the physical size of a grid? For example if the extractor represents 1 'grid' in size would an airstaging platform represent 9 grid units - that is 3 rings ?
The question is 'how big is a 'grid' ?
I suppose these are simple questions but I've not seen them clearly explained before.|||32 O-grids|||Ok...that would 'roughly' be similar to a radius of 16 but not spherical ?|||Correct|||That answers the question - thanks very much.