What do you think of the big shield construction Funnelweb?

1. yes it's the ideal weapon against detriment vs other striders. it can hold it's own. with an army against those brutes.
2. i like using with my detriment strategy in ffa or vs a bots. but the truth a lot of players are now missing the drones.
3.it's useful, players like venom and atom made a lot of funnelwebs to make ball of death just like shield bots. but really can funnelweb use another weapon beside drone to make it more useful. weapon like stunner and flamer.
4. funnelwebs are a tie breaker but people still don't use it or don't know how to use it.
5.really give them drones to the people, they like it give them building and drones. it's better that way. people where A custom to it. but making it a shield and building unit did make it too powerful.
6.just restrict some buildings like lucifer, chainsaw and give medium, low end buildings and factories give it only spider factory so it can be balance.

The new Funnelweb is pretty good, even tho I wish I had used the old one a bit more :P. It's really fun to use, a bit difficult/annoying to fight against 'cause of the inherent strength of porc + shields. It also makes games more interesting, especially FFA, due to how easy it is to rebuild everything and also because it almost feels like a counterpart to athenas.

So overall I think its a good replacement to the original Funelweb.

Rez!Funnelweb is good option, besides pheonixes and commanders. Rez is more needed on the battlefield.

I like it.

It does enable some interesting late game plays like dark_gf's scorpions in formation just inside the funnelweb shield which is a distinctive way of using them or of course the antinuke protection.

Conventional shieldballs benefit from it being a steroid enhanced cross of the convict and aspis. I'm aware of the merits of incorporating convicts into shieldballs for front line reclaim and a bit of shield sharing but the funnel does the front line reclaim better and the area and strength of the shield amply offsets the fact it doesn't actually share shield. And of course it works anywhere above water which is a nice bonus whereas aspis can only go where bots can (plus underwater of course).

The amount of times I've tried to bomb one with Ravens for it to escape at low health is irritating though.

1) Yes
2) Bombing frustration aside, yes. I've blown them up with waves of Snitches in the past. The shield is so huge that stuff can get under it and still be some distance from the escorts and it's also viable to be patient with a Likho to get under the shield to let rip which strikes me as a nice finesse play. The perimeter of the shield also means that unless it is protecting a really huge army, you've got more opportunities to bleed it by forcefiring just inside that perimeter if you need to, which is an important skill against any late game shield ball. If I'm air, I know not to touch a healthy shield ball - but when the aspis/funnelweb turns red, then it's time for a delivery.
3) Yes
4) More diverse and interesting. Supercharged front line builders with high BP and range mean one can grab more of the reclaim in the same space of time. That means a better chance of pushing back even if you do take a beating and lose some initiative. Instant +40 metal once you reach the dining table starts making a difference quicker than 7-8 cons who have to travel from wreck to wreck.
5) I'd like a good drone platform, but not as a replacement to the new funnelweb. Of course that also needs good drones.
6) Its hull could perhaps be a little bit more squishy to make it more vulnerable to direct attack, but doesn't need much of a HP nerf. I think it's in a pretty good place.

In my opinion funnelweb is in a decent spot right now.
I mostly use funnelweb as a constructor with shield-sidearm as in midgame any other con dies if you dont permanently pay attention.
The shield is easily shut down if scratched by anything which prevents it from regenerating but you have the chance to run in grab some reclaim and flee with a decent amount of reclaimed metal.

I think funnelweb is just about right and doesnt need any big changes, though i can understand if the hp do drop a bit so it feels a bit more rewarding to actually get trough the shield.

Maybe sth like 4.5k-5.5k is about right (wild assumption without much thought behind)?