To add to this:
Consider metal storage/production/waste before overdrive. Metal production after overdrive should probably not exceed energy production if there is more metal than energy in storage.

Example of currently possible bad extreme case:
Overdrive can be active while a team is wasting metal while not wasting energy.

Yes there's an option for minimal energy or metal storage (Ctrl+LMB on resource bar to set one resource, Ctrl+RMB to set both), but that's not what this topic is about.

Several weeks ago i built 13 or 17 or 21 singularity reactors, and effect of each reactor waas significant.

But wtf now after about 5 singus effect of additional ones is almost zero?

@Pxlt with that logic, you would have to delete metal storage as well, and together it would change gameplay completely.

Now game mechanics allow to use stored M (metal) and E to suddenly rush DDM near base that's overrun, one example for all. It would also disallow Kyubey rushing stardust in your base. It's simply more natural and more fun with capacity.

You seem to forget, E is not used only for cloacking, but also for building, radar, shields, ...

Note that shields have no priority, so you would E-stall and stop production without E storage, completely, which would suck big time.

Kyubey Yes, energy reserve is indeed my friend. I would add example - if enemy rushes dante, it takes two spies (560M) to counter if left alone and lucky, but without E reserve, it would need almost a fusion (another 1000M), which is silly. 2x spy moving = -24E

Not to mention strategies like fast heavy tanks repair - drains E storage fast, without storage it takes forever. Another example - licho repair for air player.

quote: so basically no metal is given back to the builders of energy structures

Uh, no? You just don't get any extra over your teammates, but building energy structures still means your income increases (assuming you OD).

Sprung if large shields have priority, it must be recent change. I clearly remember loosing game because my shield drained all E and I could not produce or build anything. Anyway, it was just one of examples for E storage importance. But for shields E storage is still important, if you attack with full shields and drain suddenly, it helps a lot to have some E stored, so that they can recharge fast.

Svatopluk you have poor arguments for why energy storage is good. You are arguing from the point of view of a player with a local problem in the middle of a game. Your examples are about how it helps that player do the tactics that they want to do or help them in some other way.

A game mechanic should be judged on whether it is good for the game. Not whether a player in a situation finds it useful. The fact that people find uses for a mechanic is a point for its inclusion, provided that they had a choice. Your points for energy storage can often be turned into good points. In general it has many uses and does not seem to be OP. Removing energy storage also has benefits. I am not sure which is better or whether it is currently possible to remove.

Simple, controllable, solution to OP. New equation:
energyForOverdrive = max{0, energySpare * (energyCurrent - reservSetting)/(energyMax - reservSetting)}

With the edge cases 0/0

1 and x/0

0 for x < 0

This seems ok technically and matches the intention of the reserve setting. I am not sure how it affects the intra-team resource conflict in teamgames.

quote: > so basically no metal is given back to the builders of energy structures Uh, no? You just don't get any extra over your teammates, but building energy structures still means your income increases (assuming you OD).

Both are wrong. You do get extra metal over teammates and RoI still exists: you get a 50% refund for your energy structures.

There's a "RoI Tracker" widget which you can enable (F11 only, too crude for F10) to see how much in debt the team is, and how this relates to the income shares (tracks both OD and mex refund through base income, separately).

Sure, just pointing out you at least get something back.