Because free resources and free hitpoints on the strongest unit in the early game can be too strong i guess.

i dunno, i am just guessing

Could be for consistency's sake. Auto repair is already in the game but works differently for commanders.

http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/305743
Heh, I knew this game would have to have existed for a thread like this to be made....

If you send a single highvalue unit on its own across the map it is entirely reasonable that your opponents should be able to counter it with bombers/skuttle/disarm/sniper/whatever.

EDIT: The linked post is about the morph change, not autorepair change. For that matter I don't think Googlefrog has much to do with commander balance.

As for the complaint in that replay that the game should be balanced around clusterf*** team games rather than 1v1... I'm going to have to go with "QQ MORE".

Shush @Gerald_, I agreed with you in that thread! >:[

Yeah disarm is OP. In my opinion racket should be reverted to use good old emp instead. Lets face the facts: racketeer has been in shield factory for such a long time and somehow trollcoms were still made (also it used to be even stronger because of emp).
Autorepair was nerfed propably because it was just too good for its cost and i partialy agree with this. However as it is right now this module is really bad. Could its' rep rate start sooner than 10s? Like after 5s. That way it could at least run away from some skirmishers and artilery while regening a bit.

guys, why nerf a good OP unit? why not suggest to buff an UP unit to kill Racketeer?

Can you imagine what happen if ZK dev always nerf units? What exciting unit is left to build then?

I am rather sad to see autorepair module in its current state. Autorepair does not counter skuttles or high alpha units used to kill the commander. In fact it was quite helpful in giving you minor survivability. It may have been "too good" for its cost, but it was one of the useful modules. Instead of completely changing the mechanic, why was it not made more expensive? 300 metal for example would mean a level 1 commander with autorepair and your choice of weapon would likely cost 500 metal meaning you would be going all in on a single unit

no raiders

bad in 1v1. In team games, this too would be balanced (with diminished effect) in that you'd have no units and 20hp/s won't help you much against 10 or so glaives.

Or better yet, why wasn't the effect of the module made less effective (like dropping repair rate to 15/s)? Why the hell was this changed so dramatically instead of tweaked?

Furthermore, why is the old string still used? Why didn't anyone bother to update it to reflect this change? I personally would rather see 15/s or 300m cost autorepair that worked like the old one than this new-found uselessness.

And I agree that racketeer is a little too effective. Not because it "counters trollcoms" or anything like that but because a single racketeer can shut down any one unit indefinitely on its own with LoS*. Id say it might be better if it didn't have so much disarm damage so that heavier units would take multiple racketeers to disarm it/keep it disarmed.

* once it has been disarmed; I believe that 1 is enough to cause disarm/keep it disarmed for most common assault units, though it may take a long time. Striders may be another story though...

But now the site text is inconsistent...

If you're going to owl the autorepair module, would it be too much to ask to update its description?

quote: Autorepair: Repairs 20 hp every second. Damage disables it for x seconds.

If this is the new route for autorepair, why not make that disable time 3 or 2? That make it significantly more useful than what it is now.

The much bigger problem on "Auto Repair" Chanche was the change of the system.
So many melee Commanders no longer work.
I see no great benefit for the future more a Commander to the final stage to morph.
And my personal opinion, Sometimes a Commander looks a bit too much,
but when I have expert opponents,
they know how to defeat me.
The cheapest is the Infiltrator, followed by Skuttle and ultimatum. Works just as well a handful of Ravens.
And these are just a few ways Cloaked Roaches, ticks, or a handful of tanks, 2 Reaper also kill my Commander.
I play every day my Commander and it's really just that easy to destroy me for the opponent when they have no experience.
Many times I die, despite auto repair modules.
I can only conclude that you have the change of auto repair-Modules in melee Commander (So flamethrower, machine gun and so on) no real Chanse more.