RT Saturation

ArcL!ght

<div class="IPBDescription">The longer RT is alive, more res it produces</div>So I was thinking about giving some time to other team if other team manages to get boom res fast.

<u><b>Saturation of RT's over time (lets say 2-3 min).</b></u>

So at start RT produces only lets say 0.5 res, after 1 min 0.75, after 2 1res, after 3 min 1.25 res and it says like that on max.
That way you would put priority on defending rt's as well as trying to get new ones and would prevent marine whoring map in 1st two minutes of game getting 6 res nodes and living like kidney in honey.

Also would prevent aliens getting too fast lifeforms and would emphasize the first choice of upgrade more directly (so if aliens choose lets say celerity they are stuck with it for a longer time, same if marines decide early shotgun\phasegate would mean same thing).

It's been done in some RTS games like Dawn of War 2 and it was a good system.

Of course those numbers I put would need to be balanced and see how it works, but it gives more time to other team to respond accordingly.

DarkOmen

Actually, the system in Dawn of War allowed the commander to invest more resources into a more heavily-defended position, which also produced more resources. It's different in that it cost resources to upgrade and not just time. Compare this to StarCraft, where resource nodes actually return less resources as they get used up, which promotes expansions and (later) relocation and more use of the map beyond the starting areas. I would say that a system like what you suggest would be unfavourable for NS2.

ArcL!ght

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You misplace DOW1 with DOW2 concept. In DOW2 requisition nodes just saturate over time and there is no way for them to be upgraded. Power on the other hand was upgradable.

In SC universe it's a bit different. There you get fixed amount of res per base and you can mine it out. Here you don't have some type of 500 res cap per node you can mine out. Also NS2 does not have that big of an macro economy SC universe does

Nordic

Sounds good to me