Testing Balance with rigged game

Imagine games where the players start with all factories free or pre-built.

Top players could go head-to-head in these games to accurately simulate a high level team game.

This would allow for great entertainment, and show off where single-player balance may result in unintended misbalances in theoretical high-level team-play.

Or how about a top-20 10v10 with comm sharing? We could put it on YT and pretend we already have korean pro gamers.

Such things can perfectly easy be done as maps, similiar to how Starcraft/Warcraft have all those special maps.
The problems is...
1) map has no way to force player/team numbers. Some special gamemodes would obviously only work with set amount of players/teams.
2) gets tagged as "silly" and then nobody finds it.
3) mapoptions died

My guess of the metagame units mostly focused on land maps would be:

-Flea, decloaker, intel, swarmer, shotwaster.
-Glaive, arguably the best raider.
-Duck, slow raider acting as semi-riot.
-Dagger, fast raider skirmisher. Best raider on amphibious maps. Also good against Glaives, Swifts and decent against Scorchers in interception and offence.
-Scythe, surprise attack if the enemy doesn't deploy Fleas.
-Venom, fast riot for map control. Good with other raiders. Can also stun enemy gunships.
-Scorcher, best flatmap raider.
-Ravager, best flatmap assault able to act as a raider.
-Halberd, blockade runner, shotwaster and assault raider.
-Rocko, light skirmisher against Ducks, Venoms and Halberds.
-Scalpel, mainline riot skirmisher.
-Placeholder, skirmisher, crowdcontrol and semi-antiheavy.
-Scallop, best base drop unit.
-Roach, mobile bomb.
-Eraser, area cloaker. Great combo with roach.
-Rapier, deathballing aircontrol skirmisher.
-Trident, supplemental AA and Rapier counter.
-Swift, air control, raider defense.
-Gremlin, surprise AA, cloaked scout.
-Vandal, cheap mobile AA.
-Copperhead, fast heavy AA with AoE. Especially good against gunship swarms.
-Thunderbird, mass disarm and shield-drain.
-Raven, bomber and artillerysniper.

-Hammer, light artillery.
-Firewalker, riot artillery and anti-skirmish.
-Impaler, long range defensesniper.
-Catapult, long range riot artillery.

-Infiltrator, cheap anti-heavy.
-Skuttle, anti-heavy against unscreened targets.
-Grizzly, heavy skirmisher/artillery and anti-heavy.
-Ultimatum, anti-heavy.
-Dante, riot strider.
-Detriment. Ultimate strider.

-Valkyrie, transporter, base dropper, bomb delivery system.
-Vulture, intel and confusing radar jamming.

-Freaker, fast all-terrain con able to slow enemy units in both defense and offense.
-Quill, fastest flatmap con and amphibious.
-Convict, defense pusher and frontline reclaimer.

[2up]knorke
That depends on how much free buildpower you have. On a map like Ravaged, sure. But then you are probably gonna rush something heavy like a Krow or a Dante.
Otherwise commanders need to expand depending on the map size.
A factory reclaiming commander gives +6 metal per second and a con +4 metal per second. That is about 2-3 mexes income for a short period of time and losing buildpower that you could use to produce units.

Edit:Although. The whole point of using cremé de la cremé unitmix from all factories kinda breaks apart when players start far away from eachother as moving units between players in time might not be feasible combined with the localized build power making switching to the optimal unit from a specific factory in a specific situation unfeasible aswell.

Well I were torn about the Gnat and the Vindicator.
My thought is that since Swifts are easily available they can counter Gnats pretty effectively forcing the Gnats and Vindicator naps out of the meta.

Like I could see surprise Gnat combined with Vindicator napping heavies and whatnot but the timewindow for that is really small before the opponent can react with Swifts of his own.

Sure. Sounds fun.

gg no Reaper or Buoy on the list, [Er0]Godde-noob
this is why you will never reach 3000 elmos

Sharpshooter isn't really that scary since the nerf so people tend to not make them as much any more. Not to mention that every factory isn't a cloaky factory.

[Er0]Godde
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