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Czech Republic12129 Posts
On October 15 2020 20:36 Vision_ wrote:Show nested quote +On October 15 2020 20:20 deacon.frost wrote:On October 15 2020 19:55 Vision_ wrote:On October 15 2020 19:42 deacon.frost wrote:On October 15 2020 19:37 Vision_ wrote: I would like to see a "standing ground" upgrade for Marines instead of stimpack and test it with the new movement implemented by Blizzard (..keeping space between marines bio ball..). The overall speed units and size of the game will be reduced, marauders will perform with concusive shell in a small area, medivacs will heal lesser due to the remove of stimpack but marines would get a little more hit points.
Mines will shot one time and will be placed and linked to a mechwarrior unit (function as broodwar)
Then i ll give Frenzy to the ultralisk, give the nydus network to infestator (with the restoration of infested marines)..
And much more for casuals You do realize bio without the stim is useless after like 4th minute? maybe even sooner. Without the stim you lose DPS and movement speed, you can go directly to Mech which has better both. But hey, cool, marines will get more hp and nobody will care as bio won't be played at all  Medevacs energy issue solved  If you re questionning a bit, stimpack doesn t really fit to the terran race (generally speaking, in other games so,...who cares ?), which is known for holding position. Of course, it s only something impossible to imagine sc2 without stimpack It's not about if it fits, Bio without stimpack has 2 major issues 1) much less DPS 2) much less movement speed #1 means that other armies will walk over bio because bio won't be able to do the damage #2 means that while bio survives longer it will still be a fragile composition and now it will have very hard times kiting or splitting Your idea would make the bio unplayable. Hey, marines have more hp. So what? Just surround them with speedlings nad a-move banelings. Hey, marines have more hp - interceptors don't care and I want to see you running under them WITHOUT stim and surviving. And how you gonna snipe tanks in TvT without the mobility nor the dps? Like address the things I posted - the lack of mobility and the lack of dps. You re right, i would be pleased by an entire another game. But Air units like Carrier or interceptor has to be thought with cautious cause actually it could be really game breaking in a new game mod (cause there s no obstacle and movement unit stacking ??!!!! what s the hell, guy you can t enjoy a "tactical" game when you re hit by a parasitic bomb which ask you to act like if you re resolving a design choice by Blizzard). I doesn t care about zerglings cause they have "idiot skill" so they move together like a cluster (as many of zerg units in fact excepted of hydralisk maybe) and regarding of tanks, your opinion doesn t matter cause the splash damage will really be weaker (so it s a matter of caracteristic, armor, damage and so...) I will define Basic units and Advanced units which one can only be created when a special supply count allow it (can be increased with upgrades - Of course a cap level will always exists). Casters, Air units, Colossus, Ultralisks will belong to this category. If you work like that, the balance is really simplier to acheive. Cannot tell if you\'re serious, or trolling. Anyway, you have the map editor, feel free to implement these changes and release a map/mod. It shouldn't be that hard to edit marine and increase their clumping range(so they spread naturally), increase their hp, add them some fancy ability and remove stimpack. And then we can try these awesome changes to see they're bad.
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On October 15 2020 20:54 deacon.frost wrote:Show nested quote +On October 15 2020 20:36 Vision_ wrote:On October 15 2020 20:20 deacon.frost wrote:On October 15 2020 19:55 Vision_ wrote:On October 15 2020 19:42 deacon.frost wrote:On October 15 2020 19:37 Vision_ wrote: I would like to see a "standing ground" upgrade for Marines instead of stimpack and test it with the new movement implemented by Blizzard (..keeping space between marines bio ball..). The overall speed units and size of the game will be reduced, marauders will perform with concusive shell in a small area, medivacs will heal lesser due to the remove of stimpack but marines would get a little more hit points.
Mines will shot one time and will be placed and linked to a mechwarrior unit (function as broodwar)
Then i ll give Frenzy to the ultralisk, give the nydus network to infestator (with the restoration of infested marines)..
And much more for casuals You do realize bio without the stim is useless after like 4th minute? maybe even sooner. Without the stim you lose DPS and movement speed, you can go directly to Mech which has better both. But hey, cool, marines will get more hp and nobody will care as bio won't be played at all  Medevacs energy issue solved  If you re questionning a bit, stimpack doesn t really fit to the terran race (generally speaking, in other games so,...who cares ?), which is known for holding position. Of course, it s only something impossible to imagine sc2 without stimpack It's not about if it fits, Bio without stimpack has 2 major issues 1) much less DPS 2) much less movement speed #1 means that other armies will walk over bio because bio won't be able to do the damage #2 means that while bio survives longer it will still be a fragile composition and now it will have very hard times kiting or splitting Your idea would make the bio unplayable. Hey, marines have more hp. So what? Just surround them with speedlings nad a-move banelings. Hey, marines have more hp - interceptors don't care and I want to see you running under them WITHOUT stim and surviving. And how you gonna snipe tanks in TvT without the mobility nor the dps? Like address the things I posted - the lack of mobility and the lack of dps. You re right, i would be pleased by an entire another game. But Air units like Carrier or interceptor has to be thought with cautious cause actually it could be really game breaking in a new game mod (cause there s no obstacle and movement unit stacking ??!!!! what s the hell, guy you can t enjoy a "tactical" game when you re hit by a parasitic bomb which ask you to act like if you re resolving a design choice by Blizzard). I doesn t care about zerglings cause they have "idiot skill" so they move together like a cluster (as many of zerg units in fact excepted of hydralisk maybe) and regarding of tanks, your opinion doesn t matter cause the splash damage will really be weaker (so it s a matter of caracteristic, armor, damage and so...) I will define Basic units and Advanced units which one can only be created when a special supply count allow it (can be increased with upgrades - Of course a cap level will always exists). Casters, Air units, Colossus, Ultralisks will belong to this category. If you work like that, the balance is really simplier to acheive. Cannot tell if you\'re serious, or trolling. Anyway, you have the map editor, feel free to implement these changes and release a map/mod. It shouldn't be that hard to edit marine and increase their clumping range(so they spread naturally), increase their hp, add them some fancy ability and remove stimpack. And then we can try these awesome changes to see they're bad.
If players are enought blind to play end game with always the same composition it s because a real time strategy (RTS game) can t only be tactical. If you don t implemented serious and restrictive rules you wil always play carriers in end game for 10 more years. It s just a way among many others to acheive to a new entire game.
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On October 15 2020 04:55 Shuffleblade wrote:Show nested quote +On October 15 2020 02:15 La1 wrote:
See i didn't even know boost was free! That would at least put more play into dropping.
As a spectator i also find it funny when the fight has just finished outside a players base and the terran is left with like 3 maurders and 5 marines but the game is over because each has it's own medivac and any units made can't out dammage the amount of healing so it's gg! So what you are saying terran had 8 medivacs over, they effectively won the fight with. 800 minerals and 800 gas worth of units plus marauders and marines. Imagine that would have been three tanks/immortals instead, no one would be surprised or "amused" the players survived the fight with that much army value and won the game. Medivacs might not be considered army by spectators but they are, they like all others units need production fascilities, time and resources to be made. In big fights medivacs bring low value besides unlocking the option to stim, against banelings, tanks, colossi, disruptor, storm medivacs adds little. It is when its scrappy they give the most value or when dropping obviously.
What i was actually thinking was... Considering how much HP a medviac heals over a long drawn out fight where the medviacs are healing 12.6hp a second and rarely do i see them run out of energy then something should be in place to make force terrans to consider how often they stim / drop so they have to conserve some of that energy.
You say that the money would be better spent in other units but the medivac is probably the best value unit in the game (apart from free yolo swarm hosts) so a medivac is worth far more in army compared to that resource being used elsewhere when compared with terrans other options.
Heres the math as people are saying they see them run out all the time (i never see all medivacs run out of energy which implies the fully heal an army before running out). it may be as people have said depleted ones are used for drops etc and full ones come in to replace them
Math: Medivac starts with 50 energy - as per wiki it does 4 hp healing per energy used and can heal up to 12.6 hp per second. A medivac recharge rate is 0.56 per second which equates to 34 energy per min. You get 4 HP per unit of energy and you can use 3 units a second. This means the following
When your medivac is built it can heal for 16 seconds straight (50 energy / 3 units a second) with 200 HP to give to units you can build 2 medivacs every 30 seconds so you can get 400HP of healing every 30 seconds. 800HP per minute which is the same as 16 marines just from build times.
Then you have regen:
You gain 34 energy per min which equates to 136HP (or 11 seconds of constant healing). across 4 medivacs this is 544 HP which is around 11 full marines. In terms of stim this means for every 1 minute a medivac is out you can stim 13 marines once and 20 marines once from when each medivac is built.
If you have 4 medivacs out for 1 min after they are built you can stim 134 marines once over the course of that 1 min 30 seconds (providing you have 2 starports with reactors) and fully regen their hp. or 77 marines twice etc.. 30 second build time and 1 min of energy regen (800 initial and 544 regen).
to me that just sounds like a lot of healing which is only amplified over the course of say a 4-5 min fight. those 4 medivacs over a 5 min back and forth can heal 3520 hp which to me seems a lot.
basically for every minute a medivac is alive (excluding base stats) you can stim 13 marines once which actually doesn't sound that bad (until you add the 20 marine base) and how quickly you can build medivacs.
I'm starting to think the base energy might be the reason i never see empty ones
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Bisutopia19208 Posts
When you stim like I do you would be calling for a medivac buff. I don't play bio as much as mech because my medicacs rarely have energy and I hate building them all game lol.
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Czech Republic12129 Posts
On October 15 2020 21:15 BisuDagger wrote: When you stim like I do you would be calling for a medivac buff. I don't play bio as much as mech because my medicacs rarely have energy and I hate building them all game lol. I agree, we need 2 healing beams like in the campaign! I like your style! Also auto-stim FTW
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Czech Republic12129 Posts
On October 15 2020 21:02 La1 wrote:Show nested quote +On October 15 2020 04:55 Shuffleblade wrote:On October 15 2020 02:15 La1 wrote:
See i didn't even know boost was free! That would at least put more play into dropping.
As a spectator i also find it funny when the fight has just finished outside a players base and the terran is left with like 3 maurders and 5 marines but the game is over because each has it's own medivac and any units made can't out dammage the amount of healing so it's gg! So what you are saying terran had 8 medivacs over, they effectively won the fight with. 800 minerals and 800 gas worth of units plus marauders and marines. Imagine that would have been three tanks/immortals instead, no one would be surprised or "amused" the players survived the fight with that much army value and won the game. Medivacs might not be considered army by spectators but they are, they like all others units need production fascilities, time and resources to be made. In big fights medivacs bring low value besides unlocking the option to stim, against banelings, tanks, colossi, disruptor, storm medivacs adds little. It is when its scrappy they give the most value or when dropping obviously. + Show Spoiler +What i was actually thinking was... Considering how much HP a medviac heals over a long drawn out fight where the medviacs are healing 12.6hp a second and rarely do i see them run out of energy then something should be in place to make force terrans to consider how often they stim / drop so they have to conserve some of that energy.
You say that the money would be better spent in other units but the medivac is probably the best value unit in the game (apart from free yolo swarm hosts) so a medivac is worth far more in army compared to that resource being used elsewhere when compared with terrans other options.
Heres the math as people are saying they see them run out all the time (i never see all medivacs run out of energy which implies the fully heal an army before running out + Show Spoiler +). it may be as people have said depleted ones are used for drops etc and full ones come in to replace them Math: Medivac starts with 50 energy - as per wiki it does 4 hp healing per energy used and can heal up to 12.6 hp per second. A medivac recharge rate is 0.56 per second which equates to 34 energy per min. You get 4 HP per unit of energy and you can use 3 units a second. This means the following When your medivac is built it can heal for 16 seconds straight (50 energy / 3 units a second) with 200 HP to give to units you can build 2 medivacs every 30 seconds so you can get 400HP of healing every 30 seconds. 800HP per minute which is the same as 16 marines just from build times. Then you have regen: You gain 34 energy per min which equates to 136HP (or 11 seconds of constant healing). across 4 medivacs this is 544 HP which is around 11 full marines. In terms of stim this means for every 1 minute a medivac is out you can stim 13 marines once and 20 marines once from when each medivac is built. If you have 4 medivacs out for 1 min after they are built you can stim 134 marines once over the course of that 1 min 30 seconds (providing you have 2 starports with reactors) and fully regen their hp. or 77 marines twice etc.. 30 second build time and 1 min of energy regen (800 initial and 544 regen). to me that just sounds like a lot of healing which is only amplified over the course of say a 4-5 min fight. those 4 medivacs over a 5 min back and forth can heal 3520 hp which to me seems a lot. basically for every minute a medivac is alive (excluding base stats) you can stim 13 marines once which actually doesn't sound that bad (until you add the 20 marine base) and how quickly you can build medivacs. I'm starting to think the base energy might be the reason i never see empty ones I posted a video with time marks of a pro game where medevacs had depleated energy. The fact you don't see it doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Actually in many better pro games they will run out of energy because there's constantly something happening.
Edit> it more implies that you have to reinforce medevacs and not be fine with the old ones unless you cut the bio production
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On October 15 2020 19:51 Vision_ wrote: I could be interesting to speak about the "disuse" (abort) of "one upgrade BO" than talking about medivacs.
I see in every game 2 upgrades simultaneously BO.. Is it a standart now ? It's much more likely that you'll win the game due to the fact that you're one upgrade ahead than that you'll lose the game because your opponent has a slight army supply advantage due to the fact that they saved money by only researching one of the two upgrades. So the choice between researching 2 upgrades or going for a 1 upgrade build order is an easy one.
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On October 15 2020 21:26 algue wrote:Show nested quote +On October 15 2020 19:51 Vision_ wrote: I could be interesting to speak about the "disuse" (abort) of "one upgrade BO" than talking about medivacs.
I see in every game 2 upgrades simultaneously BO.. Is it a standart now ? It's much more likely that you'll win the game due to the fact that you're one upgrade ahead than that you'll lose the game because your opponent has a slight army supply advantage due to the fact that they saved money by only researching one of the two upgrades. So the choice between researching 2 upgrades or going for a 1 upgrade build order is an easy one.
I remember some BO in HoTS with only one upgrade researched, isn t again a loss of tactics in SC2 over time ?
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Northern Ireland24390 Posts
On October 15 2020 19:37 Vision_ wrote: I would like to see a "standing ground" upgrade for Marines instead of stimpack and test it with the new movement implemented by Blizzard (..keeping space between marines bio ball..). The overall speed units and size of the game will be reduced, marauders will perform with concusive shell in a small area, medivacs will heal lesser due to the remove of stimpack but marines would get a little more hit points.
Mines will shot one time and will be placed and linked to a mechwarrior unit (function as broodwar)
Then i ll give Frenzy to the ultralisk, give the nydus network to infestator (with the restoration of infested marines)..
I would create a building for VCS, Drones and Probes to keep them protected by harrassement and their placement could look like Total Annihilation,.. then the command center (hatchery...) could be reduced to 3x3 and depending his distance from mineral, allow you to build this kind of extractor on mineral fields.
And much more for casuals You’re basically cutting out a ton of the flashy bio micro that a lot of players even at a casual level are impressed by and try to emulate.
I would agree the game is slightly too fast, especially as engagements scale and all the crazy micro becomes too difficult or inefficient to execute.
But hey we all have different tastes!
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On October 15 2020 21:39 WombaT wrote:Show nested quote +On October 15 2020 19:37 Vision_ wrote: I would like to see a "standing ground" upgrade for Marines instead of stimpack and test it with the new movement implemented by Blizzard (..keeping space between marines bio ball..). The overall speed units and size of the game will be reduced, marauders will perform with concusive shell in a small area, medivacs will heal lesser due to the remove of stimpack but marines would get a little more hit points.
Mines will shot one time and will be placed and linked to a mechwarrior unit (function as broodwar)
Then i ll give Frenzy to the ultralisk, give the nydus network to infestator (with the restoration of infested marines)..
I would create a building for VCS, Drones and Probes to keep them protected by harrassement and their placement could look like Total Annihilation,.. then the command center (hatchery...) could be reduced to 3x3 and depending his distance from mineral, allow you to build this kind of extractor on mineral fields.
And much more for casuals You’re basically cutting out a ton of the flashy bio micro that a lot of players even at a casual level are impressed by and try to emulate. I would agree the game is slightly too fast, especially as engagements scale and all the crazy micro becomes too difficult or inefficient to execute. But hey we all have different tastes!
I m thinking the game is turning around and around and i m getting a bit silly as a viewer to wait until they created 16 harvester units by extension plus gas. i remember with nostalgy when you haven t to build 90 vcs and even if i like some features of the economy in LoTV (cause it deserves to be adaptable to the speed of the game), i feel the "return trip" of an harvester unit until his mineral field as an outdated part of the game (..not enought modern..)
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On October 14 2020 21:32 ejozl wrote: I agree. I always felt like Medivac Boost should be costing energy, it would've been a really good way to make the energy feel more valuable.
Sure. And make warp prism warp ins cost energy too.
That would make the warp ins more valuable and wouldnt be used to spam 12 zealots in the main. See what I did there?
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On October 15 2020 22:03 Vision_ wrote:Show nested quote +On October 15 2020 21:39 WombaT wrote:On October 15 2020 19:37 Vision_ wrote: I would like to see a "standing ground" upgrade for Marines instead of stimpack and test it with the new movement implemented by Blizzard (..keeping space between marines bio ball..). The overall speed units and size of the game will be reduced, marauders will perform with concusive shell in a small area, medivacs will heal lesser due to the remove of stimpack but marines would get a little more hit points.
Mines will shot one time and will be placed and linked to a mechwarrior unit (function as broodwar)
Then i ll give Frenzy to the ultralisk, give the nydus network to infestator (with the restoration of infested marines)..
I would create a building for VCS, Drones and Probes to keep them protected by harrassement and their placement could look like Total Annihilation,.. then the command center (hatchery...) could be reduced to 3x3 and depending his distance from mineral, allow you to build this kind of extractor on mineral fields.
And much more for casuals You’re basically cutting out a ton of the flashy bio micro that a lot of players even at a casual level are impressed by and try to emulate. I would agree the game is slightly too fast, especially as engagements scale and all the crazy micro becomes too difficult or inefficient to execute. But hey we all have different tastes! I m thinking the game is turning around and around and i m getting a bit silly as a viewer to wait until they created 16 harvester units by extension plus gas. i remember with nostalgy when you haven t to build 90 vcs and even if i like some features of the economy in LoTV (cause it deserves to be adaptable to the speed of the game), i feel the "return trip" of an harvester unit until his mineral field as an outdated part of the game (..not enought modern..) If you can't even spell the "harvester" units, you shouldn't be asserting some sort of view. Anyways 90 scvs is not, and was never a thing, as Terran have Orbital Command.
Workers exist to provide naunce to harassing and attacking econ. To remove the all or nothing part of damaging a base. Workers add depth to the economic system by slowly ramping up a base with investment and with the transferring workers to new bases. An RTS without micro is a game of unit compositions.
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On October 16 2020 01:18 Dangermousecatdog wrote:Show nested quote +On October 15 2020 22:03 Vision_ wrote:On October 15 2020 21:39 WombaT wrote:On October 15 2020 19:37 Vision_ wrote: I would like to see a "standing ground" upgrade for Marines instead of stimpack and test it with the new movement implemented by Blizzard (..keeping space between marines bio ball..). The overall speed units and size of the game will be reduced, marauders will perform with concusive shell in a small area, medivacs will heal lesser due to the remove of stimpack but marines would get a little more hit points.
Mines will shot one time and will be placed and linked to a mechwarrior unit (function as broodwar)
Then i ll give Frenzy to the ultralisk, give the nydus network to infestator (with the restoration of infested marines)..
I would create a building for VCS, Drones and Probes to keep them protected by harrassement and their placement could look like Total Annihilation,.. then the command center (hatchery...) could be reduced to 3x3 and depending his distance from mineral, allow you to build this kind of extractor on mineral fields.
And much more for casuals You’re basically cutting out a ton of the flashy bio micro that a lot of players even at a casual level are impressed by and try to emulate. I would agree the game is slightly too fast, especially as engagements scale and all the crazy micro becomes too difficult or inefficient to execute. But hey we all have different tastes! I m thinking the game is turning around and around and i m getting a bit silly as a viewer to wait until they created 16 harvester units by extension plus gas. i remember with nostalgy when you haven t to build 90 vcs and even if i like some features of the economy in LoTV (cause it deserves to be adaptable to the speed of the game), i feel the "return trip" of an harvester unit until his mineral field as an outdated part of the game (..not enought modern..) If you can't even spell the "harvester" units, you shouldn't be asserting some sort of view. Anyways 90 scvs is not, and was never a thing, as Terran have Orbital Command. Workers exist to provide naunce to harassing and attacking econ. To remove the all or nothing part of damaging a base. Workers add depth to the economic system by slowly ramping up a base with investment and with the transferring workers to new bases. An RTS without micro is a game of unit compositions.
There was a period where TY was making 100 scvs
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You guys really need to start learning to ignore everything Vision_ posts lol, especially when it comes to game design and balance
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On October 16 2020 02:07 Argonauta wrote:Show nested quote +On October 16 2020 01:18 Dangermousecatdog wrote:On October 15 2020 22:03 Vision_ wrote:On October 15 2020 21:39 WombaT wrote:On October 15 2020 19:37 Vision_ wrote: I would like to see a "standing ground" upgrade for Marines instead of stimpack and test it with the new movement implemented by Blizzard (..keeping space between marines bio ball..). The overall speed units and size of the game will be reduced, marauders will perform with concusive shell in a small area, medivacs will heal lesser due to the remove of stimpack but marines would get a little more hit points.
Mines will shot one time and will be placed and linked to a mechwarrior unit (function as broodwar)
Then i ll give Frenzy to the ultralisk, give the nydus network to infestator (with the restoration of infested marines)..
I would create a building for VCS, Drones and Probes to keep them protected by harrassement and their placement could look like Total Annihilation,.. then the command center (hatchery...) could be reduced to 3x3 and depending his distance from mineral, allow you to build this kind of extractor on mineral fields.
And much more for casuals You’re basically cutting out a ton of the flashy bio micro that a lot of players even at a casual level are impressed by and try to emulate. I would agree the game is slightly too fast, especially as engagements scale and all the crazy micro becomes too difficult or inefficient to execute. But hey we all have different tastes! I m thinking the game is turning around and around and i m getting a bit silly as a viewer to wait until they created 16 harvester units by extension plus gas. i remember with nostalgy when you haven t to build 90 vcs and even if i like some features of the economy in LoTV (cause it deserves to be adaptable to the speed of the game), i feel the "return trip" of an harvester unit until his mineral field as an outdated part of the game (..not enought modern..) If you can't even spell the "harvester" units, you shouldn't be asserting some sort of view. Anyways 90 scvs is not, and was never a thing, as Terran have Orbital Command. Workers exist to provide naunce to harassing and attacking econ. To remove the all or nothing part of damaging a base. Workers add depth to the economic system by slowly ramping up a base with investment and with the transferring workers to new bases. An RTS without micro is a game of unit compositions. There was a period where TY was making 100 scvs
Yes but people here do like if they have never understood
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+1 for boost costs energy.
As an alternative the maximum energy could be reduced.
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What about reducing the max energy to 50 while leaving the recharge alone, that would encourage more fights in the "use it or lose it" mindset.
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On October 16 2020 02:43 Freeborn wrote: +1 for boost costs energy.
As an alternative the maximum energy could be reduced.
Sure, if that means the medivacs will now heal 2 units at a time while moving and healing costing less energy, I would be fine with it. Only sounds fair no?
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