2007-07-25, 17:53:18
Thx for all the excellent responses guys.
I've been thinking a bit more on the factories and its hard to figure out what would be best for the gameplay. I was able to have to have a few more 8.21 games last night, it still remained glaringly obvious that factories are an incredible investment cashwise. The units being spawned are lovely meatshields that farm amazingly and have no real drawbacks.
Taking everything into consideration a small hp nerf ( maybe 80 or 85% of the normal units) and a very small exp+gold bonus for killing them sounds the best to me. The only problem with that is what dogg said. Eventually the opposite team could be getting a gold advantage and the person who built the factories would just be a feeder(like most ppl that go exploder early game). However if the gold is limitted to really small ammounts e.g 1/2/3 depending on which unit it's hard to say that the gold earned would really benefit the other team unless it's 1 guy murdering all the extra units. Even then he wont be gaining much more then anyone else a wave but after 20 or so mins he'll have a few k more then normal. But that'll probably be offsetted by the extra tower/hero kills the team with the factories earns through good use of the units.
Anyways guys i hope you come up with the best decision.
I've been thinking a bit more on the factories and its hard to figure out what would be best for the gameplay. I was able to have to have a few more 8.21 games last night, it still remained glaringly obvious that factories are an incredible investment cashwise. The units being spawned are lovely meatshields that farm amazingly and have no real drawbacks.
Taking everything into consideration a small hp nerf ( maybe 80 or 85% of the normal units) and a very small exp+gold bonus for killing them sounds the best to me. The only problem with that is what dogg said. Eventually the opposite team could be getting a gold advantage and the person who built the factories would just be a feeder(like most ppl that go exploder early game). However if the gold is limitted to really small ammounts e.g 1/2/3 depending on which unit it's hard to say that the gold earned would really benefit the other team unless it's 1 guy murdering all the extra units. Even then he wont be gaining much more then anyone else a wave but after 20 or so mins he'll have a few k more then normal. But that'll probably be offsetted by the extra tower/hero kills the team with the factories earns through good use of the units.
Anyways guys i hope you come up with the best decision.