Just a thought... but these robots use nanities to construct things. Currently we can reclaim something to death, how about another option of assimilating something? For balance reasons assimilating would need to be slower then reclaim. Vs unit's it would be completely pointless but vs buildings their is potential. Particularly would you talk about large expensive structures that would be very beneficial to capture instead of destroying and rebuilding yourself. What gave me the idea was talking about adding a 3rd resource to the game, that required large expensive building to gather. In this case people would rather capture the building instead of destroying it. Rather a wild thought, and not sure if PA would the right kind of game to try.
There's icons for capturing in the game files. So Uber has considered it. I'm not aware of anything they've said on the topic. While capturing isn't as big of a deal compared to SupCom since there's only one faction. But I say, why not?
But why? the reason it was in SupCom was because of different factions - grabbing a Cybran engineer as UEF was a pretty big deal on primarily naval maps, if I remember correctly.
Personally I think that the current self-destruct mechanic is quite cheap. Particularly when applied to the commander. Earth 2150 had units that could disable other units. It also had repair units, whose default behaviour could be shifted so that they would capture. It would be quite cool in PA to build disabling weapon units, give them a bunch of fabbers, and send them to attack the enemy. Plus you could make the default fire order be return fire only.
Cybrans had a ship with a stealth field and a mobile sonar with a stealth field. Stealth is pretty good during ship combat as it forces the enemy to obtain line of sight on the ships and remains useful until the enemy got omni radar.
Shield boats ftw. Oh my god I had the best idea ever. What if T1 fabbers captured T2 units by having them pinned down (literally) by doxii. That would be hilarious.
What about expanding the role of combat fabbers to auto capture as well? (Obviously the process would be seriously slow and lower priority than repair, but a mob of expensive combat fabbers would suddenly be quite scary even unescorted.)
xD even better since vanguards are slow, if they are sent in with no anti-air use air fabbers to capture them while they are being sent in and then use them verses their own army xD
What about a specialized nuke that captures everything in it's attack radius (much smaller than a normal nuke, of course)
Sounds like something new to add, cant think of a way to tack it onto reclaim that works right. If they made the health bar fill up yellow as it was converted, and it was a 5 second unassistable delay followed by the reclaim time, it would be kind of neat. That would also mean cheaper and damaged things are easier to convert, but also that nothing is insta convert because of the 5 second delay.
I'd like to see fabbers automatically capture any enemy extractors that they find in spots they've been told to build. Much less work than finding the extractors, reclaiming them and then issuing a build command.
