Alternate approach to resurrecting comms?

Since ZK's comms are so central to the gameplay with their upgrades and all, wouldn't it be worth considering a means to get your comm back beyond the current "resurrection" mechanism? After all, resurrection means comms are transferrable or permanently killable. How about giving comms a resurrection mechanism that ties the comm to the player in a form he can always get it back.

After all, every other unit in the game is always obtainable from the buildtree except your comm. Losing the comm is permanent.

Here's my thought:

1) Commwrecks are no longer resurrectable.

2) When a comm dies, it drops two things - the wreck, and a Resurrection Beacon. The Beacon is invincible, untargetable, immobile, and blind. At any time the owning player can morph the beacon into an L1 comm... but it costs 500 upfront to start the morph, plus the cost of the comm to do the morph.

This means that getting your comm back isn't about the wreck itself, but about the site where the comm died. It also means that the enemy can prevent the morph simply by having a unit watching the spot and kill the morph, and a failed morph will cost the player at least 500 resources (and return the comm to being a beacon).

The location-based resurrection discourages using comms on a suicide offense, but means you can get him back if he dies on defense and you re-take the ground he died protecting.

*puts LLT next to it
*beacon tries to morph
*gets killed

It would be nice to have it as module - "phoenix" module

I think Pxtl wants to build his comm unlimited times at the Altar of Heroes.

Or do you want to build infinite comms from athena? Any of your start 6. That would make them scalable but unfair to new players if it turns out KR needs kicking. And idk how many comms would be from the fluff front.

Haha, I see you have encountered Cookies snipercom. Nice com hunter setup but ineffective in the long run...And its pretty easy to kill.

I like your ressurrection idea, the possibility of renewing your commander from level 1, either from Athena or beacon. For a cost of course.

Comms should not be so efficient that you should ever want to spam hordes of them.

Nor should they be so efficient that you should want to treat a 5k unit and his wreck as 'expendable'.

Gausss is still a 'riot' weapon, it is more than capable of penetrating through several units and killing them all. Even the Shotgun can hit multiple targets and has a good enough RoF to take out raiders. The only unit geniunely bad vs raiders is the rocket- we should also have plasma assault weapons, low RoF high damage weapons, etc so we can have anti-heavy or anti-static coms which can be sniped by raider swarms (like snipers or reapers can be). IE, the com should not be 'Warrior +' but potentially be any of the main unit roles, so they never skew the game towards one unit type required to counter them (Except, possibly, anti-heavy, which will always be good against big targets- but shouldnt be required, you should be able to skirm a riotcom and raid an arty com).

It may well be wrong, but it -shouldnt- be.

You always have to field units to counter an enemy units. This way, he doesnt get a free morphable riot, at least.