Hologram creator

Area cloaker had that feature long ago, but it was buggy

Hologram could appear like DDM or an early game Banisher. This would scare the hell out of the enemy! They'll run away and start to porc or something.

I think this has happen before... one might see an unfinished nanoframe and mis-understood it as complete building (especially in icon view).

IMO, a game that has decoy like this is Dark Reign1 if I'm not mistaken.

You can plop down a 10x10 area of nanoframes with Q held down to scare the enemy. Never done it myself, but would probably work ever so often.

Doesn't CTRL work? You know, CTRL walls things in with the building you selected, so in theory if you hold down CTRL Q and click on your comm with a building selected you should be safe.

>Fake unit can't attack, can't be attacked

You missed something, there, Google.

This hologram idea might be usable in a different manner, something like the old red alert spy mechanic that allowed the “spy” unit to copy the outside appearance of any infantry unit

If you gave this to builders for example you could make all your builders look like the commander. (making commnaping a lot harder), or build a dante nanoframe an use it to make a horde of fake dantes to troll with, the “holograms” would still take damage as normal and retain native speed and movetipe (although to the enemy it should appear like the unit has the hp of the “real” unit as long as it is alive).

Or imagine if you could camouflage a really strong unit as a weak or non-combat one, of course in this case the camouflage would either need to deactivate as soon as the unit fires or be dependent on another supporting unit (like the eraser, or pylon)

This would allow the use of misdirection tactics and psychological warfare without bugging out long range attacks (since fake units are still destructible and cost resources)

What do you think?

It is already possible to misdirect enemy via their radar.

Most times when something moves on radar, you judge its signature based on two things - how high it is, and how fast it moves. (plus how does it handle move).

Flea ordered to move in formation with slow unit -> enemy thinks you have a bunch of assaults moving up on his side :D

ChanServ it would only be a matter of time untill someone wrote a widget that compares the unit's move speed to the desired movespeed to see if it is fake or not. So that would not work.

Also I don't see much added value in this. This could all be done with Fleas as Anarchid says but altough possible I have never had a situation where I have done this or have seen any of my alies or enemies do it. It would only be something more to abuse for new players that are trying to look cool. "LOOK AT MY AWESOME STRATEGY I ONLY BUILD DDM'S IN MY BASE AND THEN I ALSO CLONE THEM SO MY ENEMY THINKS I HAVE 50 I AM SO GOING TO WIN THIS GAME WITH MY IMPENETRATABLE FORTRESS". Which also does not add any because they can gain the same false thought of being clever when they are like "LOOK AT MY AWESOME STRATEGY, I ONLY BUILD DDM'S IN MY BASE AND THEN I ALSO CLOAK THEM SO MY ENEMY WILL NEVER FIND ME, I AM SO GOING TO WIN THIS GAME WITH MY IMPENETRATABLE FORTRESS"

I think UnbreakableNoob's idea is really cool.

Imagine you can make many clone of your commander, or mimic enemy unit (let them think its theirs! unless they try to select it xD). It would be the most ultimate misdirection/psychological warfare, more powerful than cloak itself.

The only problem is this: there's no way to do this. This mechanic do not exist in Spring!

p/s: there were game that alow this kind of tactic, eg: Homeworld:Cataclysm, DarkReign1 (I only played those). Also in MetalGearSolid I heard you can become a box.

Starcraft also have hologram? I don't remember.