NAB DEFENDER MODE

What if... there's a game variant/room, where anyone over 1600 elo has their offensive capability restricted. And can only porc. and all nabs below 1600 has their turrets removed?

This will force nabs into learning how to engage in combat, and pros to spot and predict trouble for their nabs. No Elo change for this variant.

Or Elo non-specific. Where you have defender slots and attacker slots.

I don't think one can implement this as an actual game room as sometimes you need a skuttle or five to defend your base from the newbie bantha. I think it's possible to teach newbies in other ways although I used a similar idea to teach a player why to make a screen for heavies.

quote: The idea isn't "fun", more help newbies learn to be aggressive. Beyond castle building.

They just need to learn to play properly from people who can already play properly. In 1v1. Just look at Andy, he went from 1100 elo to 2100 elo in just a few days from playing 1v1!

There is a slim possibility that being one of the best BA players ever helped him learn I suppose.

Why not make a low tech game option - if you ever played original total annhilation it was always fun to turn off level 2 labs. In this game it would be equivalent of turning off large or late game units, for example the game would not allow you to make:

Annihilator
DDM
Nuke
Missil silo
Strider lab (turn off morph from units like crab)
Behemoth
Superweapons (BB, starlight,Xeneth, disco etc)
No com morphs

This would limit people to make lab units - people opting to defend will be limited to weak defense like defenders, LLT, heavy laser and gauss cannons which would mean units can overwhelm them.

you have never seen my constructor ball have you?

Why do you think anyone would ever play a game like that?

But feel free to implement it if it sounds like fun to you.