Fusioning Pylon and Storage and maybe even Caretaker.

First off let's start by staying in topic, so NO talk about infinity storage, changing status (like HP, etc), or anything off topic. The only topic/objective here is to reduce the number of units.

I see lots people complaining that we have too many units, so what about fusioning Pylon and Storage and maybe even Caretaker (Caretaker would be the only unit left in game). Just so we can delete some rarely used units.

Fusioning Caretaker too may look a bit extreme, but if we do it there may be more points to retreat and repair units, just set it to default Hold Position so it will repair ally units and reclaim automatic, but will not help ally to BUILD units, so no ally can "steal metal" from you, and it will still help building "your" units automatic too. And if you want you can change it move status later too.

If you do not agree about Caretaker fusion, but agree with Pylon and Storage fusion say so, and if you want NO fusion say so too.

o.O

I never talked about "Fusion" unit ie "Fusion Reactor" (http://zero-k.info/Static/UnitGuide#unit-Fusion Reactor).

I only talked about:
http://zero-k.info/Static/UnitGuide#unit-Storage
http://zero-k.info/Static/UnitGuide#unit-Energy Transmission Pylon
http://zero-k.info/Static/UnitGuide#unit-Caretaker



But if you want to fusion "Fusion Reactor" (http://zero-k.info/Static/UnitGuide#unit-Fusion Reactor) and "Storage" (http://zero-k.info/Static/UnitGuide#unit-Storage), for me that ok, a least we can delete "Storage" (http://zero-k.info/Static/UnitGuide#unit-Storage).

I don't like it. It lets nubs hoard metal in disguise of useful pylons. When I see them build storages I can rage with certainty.

Ooo I confused fusioning with fusion.. my baaad.

Adding to Sak's storage comment: have them be locked in team games! :]

Is there a Lua call-in for reclaimed metal? If there is, it should be pretty trivial to temporarily add storage for reclaiming teams, which would allow the Storage to be removed.

Plz do not hijack this topic with off topic talk, this topic in only about cleaning the UI removing rare used unit by fusioning it with another one.

If you want to talk about changing the storage system to talk about in Jasper topic: http://zero-k.info/Forum/Thread/2029 , that one was already been hijacked and most talk is about changing storage system and not about fusioning units.

If possible i want moderator to delete off topic comments above.

Possible, any way i am just asking what everyone thinks about it.

I would like a cheaper pylon,

Say:
70 Metal, only fusion and not singularity range and provides +100m +200e Storage?

eStorage is still needed as long as infiltrators and ultimatuums or a bulk of snipers drain insane amounts of e while moving -- even rezzing depends very much on storage capacity.

+100m +200e for 70 metal is ok if you can also extend your grid with it.
+200m +400e would be ok if you have to pay 150m
+300m +750e would be ok if you have to pay 220m as now

To prevent leeching, we could share all over 900 metal and only fill the storages and the upper 100 if the whole team is excessing.
Pros could use this as an indicator too!

It would be also ok for me if each nano get a storage of +50m, each wind +12e, each solar +20e, each fusion +350e, geos and singularity 250e, 1000e and 2250e.

10 seconds of storage.

If we compare to now, a 50m storage is worth something like 15 metal, a 20e storage something like 3 metal.

13 days are not even two weeks :/

Err Sak.. umad?