Repair

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quote: It should cost metal

Or maybe just more energy? Or more buildpower? You know, there's an endless combination of possible E/M/BP ratios. I think if you want a useful discusssion, then a good start for this whole topic would be listing all the current existing ratios and modifiers for repair and other BP-based abilities. Iirc there used to be a wiki page or post somewhere that contained all of this information.

Closed razorkiss being repaired is an essential ingredient of chicken games.

Closed gauss gave 20 hp regen in sec. It was added to competeate with HLT.

Why would anybody waste Impaler shots on Gauss or mobile units? Just snipe mexes, radars, caretakers, solars, LLTs and Defenders. They all die to a single shot (and thus can not be repaired). Gauss and Razor were designed to withstand artillery while closed.

Worst thing about repair having a metal cost would be situations, where you are being raided early game having scarce eco, with just, say 3 units. You have to use them to kill enemy units, and preserve that at the same time, to gain the advantage back. Having to spend metal in order to repair them would allow enemy to easily snowball on you.

Just kill the cons. Scythes, cloaked roaches, skuttle would make cost on 10 as well and probably kill something else.

Repair is inherently balanced... right? The mechanic seems fine -- can we go back to whining about how the dante needs a buff?

'Inherently' might be the wrong word.

IMO energy needs to be used for things that metal isn't, otherwise there's next to no point having it as a mechanic.

Personally I find energy cost on repair pretty costly. It makes me have to stop what I'm doing and build energy at a time when I want to be expanding. Stuff like banshee and warrior that don't need repairing are great early, because you're able to attrition all day without investing past the unit itself. I already skimp on repairing pyros. etc due to skeletal economy.

Adding a metal cost feels like it would make repair not worth it in sub-strider cases. You've got to compare the improved metal efficiency of repairing against the improved unit efficiency of the square law. The option to keep your damaged dude at the back firing and just having more stuff is appealing compared to having fewer units each of which is full health.

Making repair cost metal would also effect some factories far more than others. Planes and tanks would need buffs to compensate.

I guess this is where we ask for the replay of where repair felt unfair?

When your negative karma triples in one thread.

Repair is fine...