Suggestion: Make fabs automatically reclaim enemy mexes

It would be good if fabricators, rather than moving onto the next (potential) spot if they discover an enemy mex in place, they were to reclaim it and build their mex there.

Plz

or... they could capture it?

how about a capture ability?

I don't see big value in a capture ability, especially with only one faction it's totally pointless. Even with multiple factions in SupCom:FA it was used only very very very rarely.

Why? What does capturing mex add to the game that you can't already do with a reclaim?

skipping the extracommand/time of building a new mex?
being able to capture other structures or even units like other fabbers?
giving fabbers (as well as the commander) an aggressive option ...?
also saving metal ... cause capturing would only need power

depends on implementation ...

having different factions doesn´t have to do anything with it ...

more efficient, more wysiwyg

I believe this thread has a good solution to that problem.

Again, why? I can't imagine any situations where it would be better to let a useful enemy structure survive and let them keep receiving the benefit of owning it while you send out a fabricator. Just kill it and move on to the next one.

These units can already reclaim to kill an enemy and the commander has plenty of other aggressive options. Fabbers are not an aggressive unit by design, though. If you want aggressive units, those are easy enough to build.

Or reclaim to steal their metal, then use it to rebuild.

This all just feels like a solution in search of a problem.

again its all a matter of how exactly capturing is implemented .. same goes for reclaiming as it is very situational right now ... how many players have you see reclaim scrapmetalbases? ... none? few may reclaim one enemy fabber at best early game ..
or use orbitalfabbers aggresivly ... still thats it .. people shout how about it is a key feature yet it isnt
because obviously no unitwrecks at the moment ... still even if there were last time players threw mexxes on planets like turning them into metaldorado ... it simply wasnt used among with reclaiming being apperantly expensive/ineffective ... a function can only be so usefull as you make it ...
lets say if capturing was effective why would you not try to capture a turret to stop firing at your unit but the enemies instead why not use it to easily capture unprotected mexxes or other units ... heck why not try capture that t1 factory while the enemy isnt looking allowing you to build infernos in the middle of his friggin base .. or just blast it ...

Yes.

An engineer that can capture a turret that is active and shooting back is kinda not an engineer anymore.

what is an engineer that reclaims an active turret then?
a vacuum?

An offensive unit. Like a tank.

which it actualy should or shouldt be?
if first why no capturing then?

ps: cnc mechanic/engineer begs to differ ...

Not sure how it's more WYSIWYG. =P

I think WYSIWYG is just a random argument to throw out to justify what one wants.

I btw think that reintroducing wreckages and rebalancing the t1 economy as I tend to describe is a massive improvement for WYSIWYG ;D

Shift + Area_Reclaim --> Shift + Area_MexBuild ?

Although, as far as continuity goes, auto-reclaim is what fabricators already do do with trees...


Yup. I said do do.

idk, it just makes sense to capture a pre-existing structure than to reclaim and then rebuild it

+1 all the likes!