Unlocks

Hi! I think we have some problems in games with newbye players. They maybe know basics of this game, but due to low limit for unlocks they have unlocked some VERY expensive things like ADV. fusions, nuclears, starlight, etc...
This have ruined too many games(also they dont listen advices from teammates). Suggest to make some level limit for this unlocks, and also rise XP need for this stuff.
This will prevent noobs from using this stuff in non-correctly way. Before build this, they need to see how this stuff works, how use it properly and in which situations.

Also, we maybe need to change descriptions of units a bit.
For nano, it says: "build at 12 m/s".
We can make it: "build at 12 m/s, only if there is enough metal", or something so, or lock it too until some level.
Heh... but this dont solve generic problem - noobs have no ideas for what this game for, they absolutely sure that they can win, sitting on their bases and building porc, porc, porc, tons of porc. In this time team is dieing.

Yeah, the pricing-structure on the unlocks seems backwards - minor comm upgrades are painfully expensive while superunits that players should almost never be using are very affordable.

Pxtl, the reason is ingame choice and delaying the time until players unlock everything.

Unlocking large units does give you a bit of ingame choice in certain situations. But extra modules means no extra choice once the game has started, once you have your commander as long as it has a full loadout your choices are equal with everyone else, even a comm with some expensive modules is reasonably affordable. Unlocking extra modules only gives you more flexibility outside of a single game which is why they can be more expensive.

Sort version; a few people wanted to make buying every single unlock as expensive as possible and I put up heavy resistance for expensive units. But a bit of a level raise may be ok to address a new player problem.

It seems to be about 3 games per-upgrade for my comm, and upgrades are small. Considering that the most terrifying players online seem to be sporting about a dozen comm-upgrades, that's kind of unacceptable for *one comm* to take that long, particularly since there will be missteps along the way. I've been playing ZK on and off since it launched and I still don't have a single commander upgraded to the level I'd be satisfied with.

If you're going to make it this expensive, you need to provide better documentation or a testing environment for comm-upgrades, because seriously I am having some nasty buyer's remorse.

If you find yourself seriously disadvantaged by not having the right comm unlocks, then they are balanced incorrectly and KR needs a kick in the rear for doing that.

Comm upgrades are meant to be candy, fun, something to make your hero unit more powerful as the game progresses, and to preserve his threat and usefulness without him being too powerful early on. This is important in the light of comm ends (which we do want, eventually), which with the current weak comms, would make them too vulnerable later on. You should never feel as if you -need- a comm upgrade path, there should always be another unit that does the same thing.

I agree that there are certain situations where this is not really the case and that KR hasnt been balancing them properly. Just the fact that the level 3 morph can suck -90 metal and thus comes with completely free buildpower if you're ever excessing is a bit much for me.

I think arty godcom rush as a strategy is fairly powerful, counterable with proper units but powerful, especially on porcy maps.

Having the ubercom option there does change a lot really, and does give an advantage to people who have it, but really so do any unlocks.

> The thing that's really great about ZK is the fact that comm is "just another unit", albeit a powerful one

You missed that time.

What's about a OpCom game option?

* Increase the range by 10% for each 10% of the biggest range as base range.
* * Riot remains the same, arti is a little bit more arty.
* Increase damage by 15%
* Increase com speed by 15%
* Decrease com model morph costs by 33% ( to the old values )
* ...

Last com like BA
in fact we have this option implemented its just not enabled atm.