Teleporters

I just thought of something evil.

I want to shoot nukes thought the gate.

SG-1 has done that a number of times.

It's a good idea.

If I'm not mistaken, there's a Protoss building named "Stargate"
So, I don't see either why this couldn't be named stargate.

Indeed.

This was mentioned in one of the streams (by garat I think), said something along the lines of it being hard to do / they didn't plan on it.
I don't see how it would matter anyway, since it would speed up the travel time a bit but it still couldn't circumvent an anti-nuke, and nukes can already go interplanetary.

They can only do inter-planetary if the target planet is in orbit and if the planet is too far away, then there could be time to move your units out of the way.

Speed is the point of the gate in any case.

How the hell did I miss the picture of the "Teleporter." It's very awesome. xD

What's wrong with 'Galactic Gate'? Did TA trademark that or something?
I'd rather stay true to the heritage than taking the name from a TV show.

Well....we aren't going galactic with them.

So? You're not going to the star in a star gate.

I think Galactic Gate should be a much bigger much more expensive structure only used in certain game modes (e.g. Galactic War or a game mode with wonder-victory). In that case it would be a structure that you have to build to gate your commander to another system (obviously without the requirement for a relay station there).

Stargate is an easily recognizable alternative but also a misnomer. I really can't think of another good name though... maybe "Teleporter"?

If you want accuracy then 'Intra-Solar System Gate' is the most applicable.

I don't want that though. I'd like to use a Galactic Gate coz it sounds cool and is a callback to Total Annihilation... which is kinda the point.

Look for it to be renamed 'The Galactic Gate' in all of my Mods.

Wormhole generator D

Maybe just: "Gate" then it still could have a big brother called the galactic gate (that can teleport to other systems and doesn't require a receiver)

I just want to add my agreement to disliking the fixed running cost. For a game that wants to discourage micro, fixed cost teleporters do nothing but reward micro.

how does per unit reward macro?

After alot of play testing with these they are really overpowered in their current state, cost is really low. you can land and build 3-4 of these with a bunch of orbital fabbers before the other guy has a chance to respond and offload hoards off bots almost instantly.

I think is decent balance fix to this would be to have a Energy cost Per Unit that travels based on unit Cost or something.

This would require a energy large "energy Bank" to transport a ton of units or more prep before unleashing a unending wave all at once on someone.

In its current state it is for lack of a better word "overpowered" what do you all think?

just call it teleportal ... it has tele, port and portal in it ... or transportal ... but teleportal fits better imo