Introduce gradients in alien upgrade paths
FriendlyNeighbour
North Join Date: 2015-01-25 Member: 201047Members
North Join Date: 2015-01-25 Member: 201047Members
So it costs about 5 res as a fade to get the spur upgrade. The situation right now is that you pay the same for 1 or 3.
In tight games where res accumulation is scarce, this can be difference between winning or not. Instead of artificially diving the res count by 3(so 5/3 for fade, 8/3 for onos etc), why not make it a step-case where the cost is frontloaded? I.e. the understanding is that the step from 0 to 1 is the biggest and then you get diminishing returns. So if we reuse our fade example, 2.5 res for the first spur, then 1.5 for the second and just 1 for the last. The total upgrade cost wouldn't change, but you'd give a more even playing field in those tight matches where both teams have low res count but if marines have a2/w2 locked in, you can go about as normal as a marine while aliens are at a bigger disadvantage. This would be at least one pathway to ameliorate that.
In tight games where res accumulation is scarce, this can be difference between winning or not. Instead of artificially diving the res count by 3(so 5/3 for fade, 8/3 for onos etc), why not make it a step-case where the cost is frontloaded? I.e. the understanding is that the step from 0 to 1 is the biggest and then you get diminishing returns. So if we reuse our fade example, 2.5 res for the first spur, then 1.5 for the second and just 1 for the last. The total upgrade cost wouldn't change, but you'd give a more even playing field in those tight matches where both teams have low res count but if marines have a2/w2 locked in, you can go about as normal as a marine while aliens are at a bigger disadvantage. This would be at least one pathway to ameliorate that.
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If so. No thanks.
I don't think this would make much of an impact at all anyway. If you have 35 pres to spend for a fade - then the difference between 4 and 5 pres is 36 seconds / harvester count? (my math is broken today?)
This is something that should be asymmetric between the teams in my opinion. It's a cost to upgrade, you don't get res back if you lose a chamber.