Idea for next event weekend :P

NO SINGU/NO FUSION

miniature grav-beam sumos

no air weekend.
Let us see how artillery shapes up against porc.

50% off dirtbags!

No static shields and no anni! This would be a massive buff to light arty, which could actually hardcounter porc this way. This could open up teamgames quite a bit.

I guess the idea was to make games less porcy not necessarily have everybody spam arty and no air can somewhat achieve that. No air means it's much cheaper to support your artillery -> porc will have a shorter lifespan in most games.

If you wanted non-ploppable air, you'd probably have to raise the lab's cost up to 1000 to prevent a plop-reclaim-airfac start. The cost wouldn't prevent you from pulling out an air-lab at an appropriate time as a second (or third) fac, but would discourage rushing it at the start in a teamgame.

But that would leave a big question about what to do with gunships, because nobody would build a 1000-cost gunship lab except for vindicators to ship striders/heavies around.

Too hard to implement, suggest something workable :P

Air ploppability was implemented as a modoption...

Alternately-but-similarly, merge EMP and slow. Make 99% EMP also cause full-slow. Slow units become EMP units with a stun-time of zero. Across-the-board nerf of EMP damage weapons would have to happen in parallel because dealing slow + EMP would be a buff.