First of all: phreak, I agree with you. Both alien decoy and auto barricade should be weak.
Auto barricade has a tremendous disorienting power, so it should be easy to destroy.
Second: Neo & phreak, your posts made me think, so I'd like to propose 2 other structures for humans instead of the "magnetic field".
Neo: you're right. Mobility is really too important for aliens to make a structure blocking it, but I'm still thinking that humans rely upon open combat and should have structures capable of drawing aliens into open field.
Phreak, your post has the answer: a human decoy system will draw aliens in an open field if used correctly, without blocking their mobility.
So here are the 2 structures I propose for humans:
DECOY STRUCTURE or HOLOCAM
Think about a turret with a cam instead of a gun: that's a holocam.
Holocams should be able to generate a decoy image 1 or 2 meters away from the cam itself and this image should be non-solid, because it's just a hologram.
But what should be the subject of the hologram?
I don't think a reactor will work: weak aliens won't attack it because of its electric shock.
I think that the best subject for a human decoy system is: the construction soldier.
Try thinking as an alien: you see a construction soldier alone, standing still just round a corner... you run and try to attack him but... hey it's just an hologram and near the holocam there's a turret awaiting you.
That would be a deadly trap.
Holocam shouldn't be able to generate the "blue dot" effect because this is a graphical rendering of alien feelings and I'm pretty sure that a hologram won't deceive this ability.
But.. what about an alien feeling jammer?
Here's my second structure idea.
ALIEN FEELING JAMMER
A simple structure capable of generating blue and red dot in a certain area (let's say 3 meters from this structure)
These dots should appear, move and disappear randomly, making aliens understand that this structure is active in the area, but at the same time making them have doubt on their feelings.
It wouldn't be a powerful structure because human structures must be built near Reactor or Repeaters, so real dots will already exist in the area
Now it's your turn. What's your opinion?
