Request QOL morphable Radar

How about morph radar to owl, instead of the useless scout plane. It's just 100 extra metal or so.

Nevermind I checked costs, big radar to owl sounds perfect.

It was already discussed in this thread and I still don't think it's good for the team-dynamic of the game - although the idea is still sort of logic & nice.

There is a barrier in getting too good/usefull units too fast ... there just shouldn't be always a fast lane - especially not for intel. I do like the idea of the BYO factory as MOD, but don't like to have this trend in the core-game.

It's done in FW as a means to gate newbies into building radar to get to adv radar as well as clean up the misc tab so other buildings can be added (IE: Big Shield). It's a stopping point to reconsider radar placement. Immediately jumping to adv radar tends to hurt newbies more than it does veterans, especially when they're not aware of radar shadows. With radar->adv radar, you're forced to consider your radar placement first and you're given a "cool off" time to reconsider. A smaller QoL feature that might be more acceptable would be adding sonar to radars:

* It allows you to preview LOS gain.
* It's used in sea, so having sonar makes sense.
* LOS of basic radar is pretty low as is, so adding it won't hurt much balance wise.

quote: - GoogleFrog : "Getting constructors into position" - How did the small radar get there in the first place?

quote: Getting constructors into position when and where you want to build a structure is non-trivial for a reason.

If you wanted to build Adv Radar at the time then you would have just built Adv Radar, no morph required. In this situation the morph would just make the Adv Radar cost less BP. If there is a time gap then the constructor has walked off to do something else by the time you want Adv Radar, or you're wasting a constructor. There is a lot of game to how constructors flow around the map.