HydraSlots

StarFlyStarFly Join Date: 2012-04-27 Member: 151158Members
edited May 2012 in Ideas and Suggestions
<div class="IPBDescription">buy slots for new hydras</div>A short suggestion:

as gorge you can buy slots for hydras so you can build 4 hydras (Every upgrade 1 more) at Once.

You will Not lose this "upgrade"...
Every upgrade costs 10res.

You can decide between upgrading The amount of hydraslots or you can sage The res for fade or onos.





(Sry for my Bad english)
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  • ImbalanxdImbalanxd Join Date: 2011-06-15 Member: 104581Members
    And say you spend 50 res on hydra slots and then get killed by a marine while moving forward to place them somewhere? 60 res spend on a lifeform that doesn't have 60 res worth of potential defence.
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  • StarFlyStarFly Join Date: 2012-04-27 Member: 151158Members
    edited May 2012
    You can go gorge again and build 8(3+5)hydras.

    First you build The 3hydras.Then you can buy more slots and build more hydras.it`s silly to buy The slots before you are at a good place to build.

    And If you die as fade you will lose 50res too..
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  • ImbalanxdImbalanxd Join Date: 2011-06-15 Member: 104581Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1934748:date=May 9 2012, 02:43 PM:name=StarFly)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (StarFly @ May 9 2012, 02:43 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1934748"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->You can go gorge again and build 8(3+5)hydras.

    First you build The 3hydras.Then you can buy more slots and build more hydras.it`s silly to buy The slots before you are at a good place to build.

    And If you die as fade you will lose 50res too..<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Ye but a fade is designed to have 50 res worth of defence against death, whereas a gorge isn't.
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  • KrubbaKrubba Join Date: 2012-05-11 Member: 151874Members
    edited May 2012
    A gorge covered by 8 hydras do have a considerable amount of defense, perhaps not on the level of a fade however.

    I'd suggest lowering the cost to around 5-(7) pres for each hydra slot instead and cap the amount of hydras to a total of 7. Then a gorge with max slots would cost a total of 30(38) (10 for evolution+20(28)for slots) resources, the same as a lerk.

    The slots should be unlocked 2 by 2 for each new hive to prevent a 7hydra farm 5minutes into a game.

    so in short:

    1 hive gorge, 3 hydras 10 pres invested in the lifeform

    2 hive gorge, 5 hydras +10(14) extra pres investment in the lifeform

    3 hive gorge, 7 hydras +10(14) extra pres invested in the lifeform

    If you die you lose all the upgraded slots.

    numbers in "( )" are with the hydra pres cost of 7.

    The result of this is that the gorge would start of a cheap lifeform and grow in value to kill as his power grows through the additional hydra slots, which in turn makes him harder to kill.

    As written above there is the possibility to die out of range of your hydras while still having evolved all the slots, but that would be compareable to a lerk flying straight into a shotgun blast.

    And lastly, if you prefer to be an incombat gorge you can just opt out of upgrading into more hydra slots and just stay closer to the frontlines instead, only risking the initial 10resources you spent going gorge.

    Thoughts?

    edit: the gorge would start off with 3 hydras to use! that number could of course be adjusted to 2.
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  • NordicNordic Long term camping in Kodiak Join Date: 2012-05-13 Member: 151995Members, NS2 Playtester, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Supporter, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Shadow
    One gorge could defend an entire hive. I don't like the idea
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