Suggestion to a new game mechanic

Hey guys, been a while, thought I'd stick my head in and give you an idea I came up with rather recently. I've been thinking over that people continuously spam one single unit in overwhelming numbers and it becomes too repetitive up to the point that can be overwhelmed. Through that style of play, every other play is wasted.

So here I propose to you the Morale Support System™

The Morale Support System is a game mechanic that operates on every movable unit which gain passive bonuses to other type of units around them. Let's make an example of the Instigator.

The Instigator is a raider, moderate damage, high speed, low defenses. Ceptable to a Riot unit, like a leveler. But say we added an assault unit to the group of the raider units. Those raider units would gain a small bonus of defense vs Riot Units.

How would this work with multiple units?

Say you got 12 Raider Units, and 6 Assault Units.
Each Assault Unit would grant a maximum of 50% damage reduction from Riot units to the Raider units. Shared.
So each of the 12 Raiders would gain 25% damage resistance to Riot Weapons.
All damage caps per unit would be capped off at 67%?
Ofcourse, these units would not give their own damage reduction bonus's to their own unit classification. Assault units will not get the bonus of other assault units etc.

If my info is not out of date, the rota for unit types goes as:
Assault > Riot > Raider > Skirmish > Assault

You could then later present an army of:
12 Raiders
6 Assault
8 Riot
4 Skirmishers
Which all gain an individual defense bonus against targets.

So we would have

12 Raiders would grant 600% sharable damage reduction against Skirmish Units.
6 Assault would grant 300% sharable damage reduction against Riot Units.
8 Riot Units would grant 400% sharable damage reduction against Raider Units
4 Skirmishers would grant 200% sharable damage reduction against Assault Units.

So the Units in this group would gain

Raider:
- 12.5% Damage reduction vs Riot Units per Unit
- 18.8% damage reduction vs Raider Units per Unit
- 7.7% damage reduction vs Skirmish Units per Unit

Assault:
- 43% damage reduction vs Assault Units per unit
- 18.8% damage reduction vs Raider Units per Unit
- 7.7% damage reduction vs Skirmish Units per Unit

Riot:
- 43% damage reduction vs Assault Units per unit
- 12.5% Damage reduction vs Riot Units per Unit
- 7.7% damage reduction vs Skirmish Units per Unit

Skirmish:
- 43% damage reduction vs Assault Units per Unit
- 12.5% Damage reduction vs Riot Units per Unit
- 18.8% damage reduction vs Raider Units per Unit


The Benefits:
The system would encourage further unit mixing and new strategic setups instead of relying on the same one or two units.
The units that are mostly neglected, will become relevant again.
This can be implimented in any lab, including Air and Naval.
This will make the RTS that bit more competitive when it involves more planning with Micromanage.

And obviously to prevent people from protecting their bonus giving units, they have to be within a certain distance to provide the bonus and in the same battlegroup.

Many may confuse that what would be the point in using a goliath over a Reaper.
Simple, the 50% defense bonus comes from it's own damage reduction vs particular weapon types

Say the damage reduction vs Riot Cannon is 300 on a Goliath and it's 180 on a reaper. The value of 150 from goliath and 90 from the reaper is what will be shared.

Yeah dont like it at all, spam is controlabe, if the enemy uses only 1 kind of unit the you use the conter to that unit and its over. if spam alone can defeat you you dont need a new complicate system, what you need to to learn to play better.

This won't be implemented. Just fyi. (I'm not the boss of these things but I just can't see it happening)

- unit mixing: how many various units do you want people to use all at once? 2 or 3 units working in synergy with one another is generally a nice mix, adding in more just makes them difficult to control.

- what units are neglected? all units are useful. name them and I can give you examples of proper use.

- implemented in any lab is not a benefit if the system provides nothing useful.

- how will it make the game more competitive? I'm completely dumbfounded at this last part.

I hate to pick apart your idea like that but none of this makes any sense at all to me. Whats the central purpose? How do you achieve that purpose by muddying the units' roles?

That said ZK is open source you can look at the game files and even implement your changes with a mutator if you want to see how your ideas play out. In fact I would suggest you try this as your ideas will grow and develop when you can actually see them in practice.

Oi a little sidenote:
Units can't simply be tagged with different "classes". The short descriptions you can see use these names only to support new players.

And raiders aint "moderate damage, high speed, low defenses", but more like "high damage, moderate speed, low defenses". Thah's totally off topic, still! :)

Or some lazy like me, don't want to produce counter.

Lazy people dont win computer games.