Make Detri Great Again -- Buff detri!

Note: This is a serious topic.

Edit: Holy fuck it's 24k. Detri is an absolute joke.

As you know, Detriment is in a terrible state at the moment. At a whopping 24k price tag, it's sitting up there with the Game Enders in terms of cost and weight. Game enders, which as the name suggests, are units meant to end the game. These units include:

Disco Rave Party - 32k -- very useful
Zenith - 30k -- Very useful
Starlight - 40k -- GG if not taken out.
Nuke+missile: 12k -- can end the game under some circumstances

Nongame enders but still relevant:
Bertha - 5k -- useful siege weapon
Bantha - 10.5k -- kinda eh, but still useful.

Detriment's cost is about 6k from the cheapest game ender. It's extremely overpriced and underperforms against lighter units for a unit of its cost. Detri is beaten for cost by almost every lighter unit composition such as fleas, scythes, etc. It's also beaten by pretty much every game ender too. The only place detriment can win is in sea -- even then it's fairly annoying to use given that it needs an elmo depth of at least 220 to protect it against surface to surface attacks.

Other annoying traits include the fact that it sounds like an impaler and that OKP keeps it at missile range and stops it from firing its guass cannons.

I would like to see detriment become a true game ender, not its ridiculously weak self.

have you tried to throwing it deep into enemy territory?

on B595774 26 on FrozenFortress_v2, a pack of athenas quickly repaired a detri, which havoced the central area pretty neat. but my suggestion is, that in the end we lost due to berthas and nice scythe micro, which killed our eco...

I agree that Detriment is overpriced for what it does.

It's not my favourite unit and I personally don't care if its buffed or not.

But its certainly true that when somebody activates DRP or Zenith or Starlight, even the most porcy players (me) sit up and listen. Detriment can be dealt with so many ways I actually get happy to see the other team giving up initiative to "rush" a unit that very likely is going to end up feeding us metal.

I've seen them widowed and killed. I've personally taken one on with a massive Racketeer heavy shieldball and shut it down. I've seen them Bertha'd. I even managed to sink one into the ground with Caretakers. Once our team even managed to kill one and revive it and on our side with Athena.

For the mountain of metal that they cost they are 'meh'.

Then again, it could also be a function of how they are used. Too many players assume that OMG its so big, Imma send it in on its own and win. As with any major unit, you have to support it for best results.

I like Detri cost, would be cool to buff it up. As others suggest, Detri should be actually ludicrous in battle as it is much riskier to use than starlight, zenith, Bertha spam

and its cloakable, transportable, teleportable,...

I think detriment should cost no more then 16k. It needs to be out of the game ender price range to be viable - the thing with gameenders is that the only real counter to them is to kill the enemy before they get it built. Derti is a unit with non-ridiculous range. That means it can be countered. Therefore it needs to have its price far below 30k.

Detriment used to be faster and it became the default unit in FFA because it could just run away from all enemies and repair.

Why make strider when you can make CyclOPs instead?

I think detriment is just fine
B596837 2 on Adansonia v4.1
B595311 2 on Adansonia v4.1

hey, i dont mind detriments, i just support with ground and air forces, namely Nimbus and a good mix of riot units + healers. btw, my opinion is based on little experience, so dont take my idea as 100% sound, but i would like some advice. to the point, i dont think it is a priority canidate for buff when used correctly.