Snipers

Lots of players find snipers very difficult to deal with, since detecting them requires the player to watch the area like a hawk for the tiny fx when they fire.

suggestion: when the sniper fires, it causes a purple ground glow that takes eg. 3 seconds to fade.

Well no, because its not nonsense. In real game situations, I lose track of the number of times I see new players drop a label SNIPERS!!! then retreat all their forces. They are fairly hard to deal with (so long as they are used intelligently, eg, covered by defences or units) and considering their other perks (with LOS, most effective artillery unit, plus able to shoot down planes, hit units with perfect accuracy...) not something they currently pay for with their cost. Observe how many players just spam snipers in team-games.

Skuttle is indeed, not noob friendly. I wouldn't want it changed though, because mega units need a hard counter.

skuttles are just frustrading.

btw imo hard counters are always bad for gameplay

Mega units need to be designed so that there is a regular unit class counter beyond specifically designed anti-heavy units (just sayin'... again...).

karacho... what are you talking about. AA maybe? Every RTS is based around hard-counters (on the unit level, perhaps not on the meta-strategic level).

Licho doesn't like how snipers work ATM. He wants them to uncloak. Google would not approve of any dynamic that reveals the sniper to the player but not to the AI (IE, like the old seismic detectors).

Personally I think we need another form of detection beyond spamming units and bumping into things. Some kind of active sensor sweep that requires player attention, or a passive ability.

A passive ability on radar that reveals cloaked units within some fraction of their radar radius would be good, but then someone using cloaked units has no real way to identify the 'no-go' easily. So you'd have to have radar show up when you enter their range with a cloaked unit, which would then draw the reveal radius so you can avoid it for as long as possible.

if you make that glowing shit, reduce price accordingly. you nerf their main strenght, make it boring and more of a common unit...

I'm not saying its OP.. I'm saying its a unit you locate by seeing where the projectile comes from, which is awkward because the projectile is tiny.

gauss?
EMP missiles and Dante's fire + anti-shield-heat-rays are the only ways to break shield spam (except getting under it).

So gauss snipers with reduced damage and extended range would be fine.
There is no reason to make hammers, if 2 snipers can instant-kill a Stinger.

I would like it if a radar can identify and exactly spot another radar.
Since the omni-radius which decloaks units is smaller than the radar radius, you can make 1 adv. radar, see the other radars easily and with that you know where the no-go-zone is.

EDIT: same with sonars vs sonars.
Radar should not be jam-able.

I still want that anti-cloak range on radars (naybe only on advanced or Level3 radar).

Why should you not be allowed to make a Bigger radar for 2500m with 3 times the range?

what if you cloak a sniper?! would you need 2 jammers?