towers fall from the sky - neat!

Assets/_Project/Scripts/Combat/TowerCombat.cs

@@ -58,6 +58,12 @@ namespace TD.Combat
         // is in range, the tower fires and the timer resets to 1 / AttacksPerSecond.
         private float attackCooldown;
 
+        // Counts down from towerInstance.LandingDuration, set in OnNetworkSpawn. Combat is
+        // fully inert until it reaches zero, so a tower can't target/fire while its mesh is
+        // still visually falling (TowerLandingVisual). Server-only; independent of whatever
+        // the client-side fall visual is doing to the (possibly shared, on a host) transform.
+        private float landingCooldown;
+
         // Cached on OnNetworkSpawn — avoids GetComponent every Update.
         private TowerInstance towerInstance;
 
@@ -102,6 +108,7 @@ namespace TD.Combat
         public override void OnNetworkSpawn()
         {
             towerInstance = GetComponent<TowerInstance>();
+            landingCooldown = towerInstance.LandingDuration;
             replicatedTarget.OnValueChanged += HandleReplicatedTargetChanged;
 
             // Late-joining clients receive the NV's current value in the initial
@@ -128,6 +135,12 @@ namespace TD.Combat
         {
             if (!IsServer) return;
 
+            if (landingCooldown > 0f)
+            {
+                landingCooldown -= Time.deltaTime;
+                return;
+            }
+
             TowerDefinition def = towerInstance?.Definition;
             if (def == null || def.Range <= 0f || def.AttacksPerSecond <= 0f) return;