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Leeching Energy from Grid

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8 years ago
Hi,

was there ever an idea to have a cloaked unit that leeches energy from the enemy grid? If not, I propose to have such a unit in favor or more need for grid maintenance and more careful placement.

What do you think?
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I consider current invisibility/detection mechanic broken as it is (seriously? the only way to detect an invisible unit is to bump into it?), so making invisible units even more dangerous/annoying is not something that I would view as a positive change.
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8 years ago
This could discourage interconnectedness of the grid. If player A has to worry about Teammate B risking their collective energy by poorly protecting his energy, then the grid linkage may be *bad*. Right now, the players think "always link". I'm not sure about "linking is now a bad thing".

More likely would be a unit that simply steals 100% of the energy from all energy buildings in radius around it, rather than leeching energy from things deeper within the grid. But this would have no impact on pylons, and would steal only a pittance for all the risk if you got it next to some Solars or Winds.
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8 years ago
can kinda already do this with domi and cloaker
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