Home turf advantage

Imagine being able to have all turrets having slightly larger range and fire rate when on own grid, including for build turrets, and including for units on own grid.

Grid pylons would be need to have their range halved and size smaller and more expensive so like scylla raids on them would make sense, and spamming them to extend porc would be tedious.

OR

Pylons would transport and store small ammount of OOMPH, Each energy maker charges local oomph stations like shields charge each other. And each home turf advantage drans oomph from pylon or other energy maker. so a lot of pylons would be needed near porc to have proper oomph boost to units and sturctures.

Imagine being albe to stockpile faster when on grid, like scylla stockpile.

(merlin and dante dgun would be cool if stockpileable)

Anyway, so like with log or exp curve when connected to a grid the turrets and units gain more power, tho USE ENERGY when using upgraded capability...

The mechanics for it would be similiar to future wars cerbe equiv that gains range with eco boost

aka guarantee that you never win via anything other than superweapons / ultra long range poke.

Halfway related: I think it would be fascinating if all energy and all metal transported themselves around similar to how shields transfer charge. Various buildings and units would contain batteries/storage. If you want to use a resource, it has to be present where it is being used. Imagine all units using energy/metal to fire weapons ... any and all weapons. (We could be merciful and allow units to move without charge in the battery. :D )

On topic: probably we don't need to increase the power of porc.

im talking about small increments. logarithmic so it it tapers oout over energyproduced and never exceeds 1.5 of oomph of weapon sys, and 3x of support units or facts, like 3x stronger healing of original units when like logarythmically it reaches 700e... so those boosts would be very tiny and sublte but also very handy

I had an idea like this where you laid the computer load/OOMPH power from units on to super computers through a system of relay radar like things.

The relays would come in a few versions out of three categories: Mobile, Stationary, and Experimental. These categories would then each have in them area relays, which send the OOMPH in a circular area around them (Much like current radars in base Zero-K). The second type would be direct radars which connect to only area radars and direct radars (and only so many of both like 2 or 3) but would have a much larger range.

Continuing on this you would also have Jammars to decrease max OOMPH throughput and Detectors to locate where signals are and their strengths and from that you would guess where the signals are going and coming from. You would need the data of signal location because most units would have terrible vision and the exceptions would require OOMPH to operate slowing them down. With this info you could either: One; go towards the relay and take it out to cripple the enemy army or, Two; find a stealth raid looking for your relays.

This is only some of the game ideas and this is getting long so that's that for now.

richardjam13 the admins and developsters will understand. its beyond you if you see it that way...

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I like the idea of logistics networks, ammo, and boosts for having access to the network. It sounds like a mod though, if not a whole new game. I think you'd want to have relatively few unit types and more of a focus on construction and resupply.

^I'd agree with frog there.

It wouldn't work for zero k - there's already way too much to think about.

Dunno if porc is op tbh, rarely see the porcers win unless the attackers waste units on it.