Don't worry, I'm not vying to see this in 1.2 or anything, I just have an idea. Post feedback/flames below
I have noticed that there are people ( be it preference or lag restraints or
whatever) who will prefer the builder class through many matches in a row. These people have perfected base building and recovery down to an art, so much so that newbs should be
afraid to touch what they've built. It's these people who support us when we go off killwhoring and still have a base to come back to...people who don't put the ckit or granger away for a moment, no matter the tide of battle. I have an
idea for facilitating and rewarding these individuals. It is a set of buildables that do not occupy or use build points, but which take
time and other conditions to build. These items may give their team an MINOR edge if the team's base remains unattacked for too long, as well as giving inactive builders something to do if their base is largely complete.(we've all been there)
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Conditions regarding these structures:
May not be built unless all possible build points have been used.
May only be built by one builder at a time, and will instantly be destroyed if this builder changes to a combat class (builder death then respawn will not affect these items).
Items must be subject to creep/power grid, just like normal buildables.
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Here are my ideas for "freebies" built in this fashion. In the event that you like this concept in general, think up others. They must in general be time-consuming to build, and be more sparkle - less bang.
Aliens: "Alien Cyst" A small fist sized spore that lays on the floor and generates a small creep. It acts as a mine, but only if destroyed by a human shooting it (he has the choice to walk past it unexploded).
"Mini-mind" A partly grown Overmind fetus, roughly a third the size of the Overmind, which, upon destruction of the real om, grows itself into a new one from the halfway mark (hitpoint speaking).
Humans: "G-Battery" A largish (human-sized but lays on its side) battery that can be built with ckit once the human base is complete. These can be stacked on eachother to save space. This is a battery which will power
all human structures if the Reactor goes down. Compared to the alien Freebies which take a longer time to build, you should be able to build up to 5 of these in an unmolested match. Each battery
will only work for ten seconds, so if hummies are on the ball and snap to it, they can get a jump on remaking or moving the RC quite well. Powering the base for 10 secs will consume the battery,
which will promptly disappear.
"Dretch-lick" Basically like a glue trap for mice or flies, except that it only affects dretches and only to slow them slightly as they pass over it. It may be built on floors and (if possible, idk) walls with
ckit.
These only some of the possible Freebies that could be built. The idea is to have something cool yet doesn't affect much, to make bases more diverse-appearing and to give grizzled builders more to do than twiddle thumbs if they aren't in the mood to jump into combat.
What say?
