I think that it is insane to have to shared armies/union control as a ranked condition in its current form and cant see why it would be allowed under any form at all. I played a game recently where a teammate kept microing my commander towards the water as I am trying to leave the water due to 2k hp and torp bombers attacking me. I actually had to pause the game to tell whoever it is to stop. It felt like he was trying to make sure I died so he could get my base. Was completely insane. Same game a teammate takes a group of engines that I really needed and puts them in a transport (he canceled my factory que so he could make a transport) Losing my build que without warning and taking a huge amount of build power I was staging for my own purposes. Its all counter to what a ranked game should be imo.

In that game I was doing just fine (ended up getting blamed for winning the game) so I really didnt need any help or whatever the hell that was suppose to be. Even in a scenario where I am holding the team back due to my bad apm why does my team get the advantage of a teammate picking up my slack? Imagine my opponent who is battling hard against me and is gaining the upper hand just to suddenly feel me have advanced apm and push back the advantage making moves that I had no business doing.

I think there are situations where this could be abused as well.

If I am a 1.3k playing in a 3v3 and my 2 teammate's are 2k while our opponents have three 1.7k-1.8k players my opponent should be able to push me as maybe their only way to gain an advantage that game.....but they cant push me because the 2k players on my team are micoing all my stuff and negating the advantage my opponent should have.

IMO the settings (aside from maps and veto's and such obviously) the pros use in the LOTS tourney and the like should be the ranked settings. There shouldn't be all of these other crazy modes that make for a completely different match and essential completely different FAF experience.

I am ok with Nomads being ranked but it wasn't that long ago that xtreme wars was a ranked game mode and I was happy to see when that got removed from the client. So too should this setting and those like it.

At the very least it should be unranked until it goes through the arduous process similar to the decapitation work that Phong and others are engaged in.

@FtXCommando You are probably right when you consider it from a pro level only perspective but the real world I speak of most players do not care about actual cost and being hyper efficient, they care about value and what they get out of something.

As I have said a forum post (at least not this one) is no place to decide on the actual stats this will have. I'm trying to achieve high level (in business high level means low detail) discussions to try and affect change but since we are talking about it.

Referring to the novax as t4 air is extremely inaccurate IMO and shouldn't be compared to the other t4 air units.

An eye is fairly cheap but requires alot of micro to be effective and has a small intel radius.
Soothsayer is very effective with its large intel radius but is static and easy to kill.
A novax is invincible and can move. If that isnt the t4 version of the previous 2 than I dont know what is.

If we are going to compare the novax to the soothsayer and eye lets not try to also call it an air unit.

I like to go through the replay vault and pick replays where everyone is in a certain range but this doesn't allow for that. I don't typically watch a replay with a whole bunch of pro players that have the odd Joe in there I'd rather watch a fully pro match instead for study purposes.

There's an old saying in the trades, "if it ain't broke don't fix it" there seems to be too much of that with moderators in my opinion.