@PheatherNoob said in Merge engineers into support engineers to circumvent pathing issues.:
advena, if we limited it to t3 engies it would be pointless. The problem is t1 engie spam. And deploying them does absolutely nothing to reduce the raw number of t1 engies that will still mess up pathfinding badly, just slightly to the side.
Indeed, the amount of t1 engineers that reasonably ends up in the lategame needs to be sheltered in a single factory for this to work.
@PheatherNoob said in Merge engineers into support engineers to circumvent pathing issues.:
If we stationing engies in a factory exclusively for support factories it would be much less effective because many people often have massive assist around their hq. So you could just apply it to HQs and support factories. Maybe everything except t1 factories would be ok? Do we want to apply this to nukes or smds or quantum gateways? Not sure, but it would be possible and would have the same kind of effects.
And maybe stationing engies would not be op even for t1 factories if there was a delay period for the engie where it is idled before moving in or out of the factory. Something like 15 seconds each way, or 20 seconds in, 10 out. Just throwing out some numbers. Anyway, this would mean you are still fairly vulnerable to raids, and lose a bit of build time for the ability to station engies.
Support and HQ sounds wise indeed, good point.
T1, just no, every week there is at least one time I spam out T1 air in the late T1 phase. This should be visible and punishable.
Quantum Gateways... no assist patch could be coming and is better.
Nuke and SMD, absolutely not. If a player is spamming out nukes it should be very visible.