2009-10-28, 23:54:39
After doing the maths i have to correct myself: It is indeed worth way more than 4k.
Bomb costs 4k
Let's assume the bounty of a factory is 350
Let's assume 1 hour is allready played so one Marine is worth 24 gold
Let's assume you kill 2 facs with selfkill in the first try, you get 700 bounty. Net gold loss: 3300
You forcegold increases by 4 x ((2x 24 (marines) + 2x 36 (artillery/zep) + 1x 48 (commander)) x 15 (they spawn 3 times a minute)) = 10080 gold -> 1/3 from that: 3360 -> /players -> 672 gold per player.
Is this correct? If yes, it is definitly too much and there should be a change (you'd have the gold loss compensated in 5 minutes!), but rather make them take less damage when the laser towers are alive instead of making them invulnerable (Velocity's idea).
€: I forgot an important point: If the facs were alive you could kill the creeps as a player:
You'd get for killing the creeps of two facs 2520 gold/5 minutes (only if your force's creeps don't kill any of them). The gold difference to the fac killed would be just 840 gold. Killing the fac you'd have the 3,3k compensated in ~20 Minutes without taking your fighting somewhere else into consideration (I don't do this, becouse the amount gained by that should be close to the amount you'd get from spending the bomb gold into any weapon, so they kinda eliminate each other). Seems too strong as well.
Bomb costs 4k
Let's assume the bounty of a factory is 350
Let's assume 1 hour is allready played so one Marine is worth 24 gold
Let's assume you kill 2 facs with selfkill in the first try, you get 700 bounty. Net gold loss: 3300
You forcegold increases by 4 x ((2x 24 (marines) + 2x 36 (artillery/zep) + 1x 48 (commander)) x 15 (they spawn 3 times a minute)) = 10080 gold -> 1/3 from that: 3360 -> /players -> 672 gold per player.
Is this correct? If yes, it is definitly too much and there should be a change (you'd have the gold loss compensated in 5 minutes!), but rather make them take less damage when the laser towers are alive instead of making them invulnerable (Velocity's idea).
€: I forgot an important point: If the facs were alive you could kill the creeps as a player:
You'd get for killing the creeps of two facs 2520 gold/5 minutes (only if your force's creeps don't kill any of them). The gold difference to the fac killed would be just 840 gold. Killing the fac you'd have the 3,3k compensated in ~20 Minutes without taking your fighting somewhere else into consideration (I don't do this, becouse the amount gained by that should be close to the amount you'd get from spending the bomb gold into any weapon, so they kinda eliminate each other). Seems too strong as well.