Commander Hijacking...

I'm all up for a few fun games of Zero-K but the last few games i played were full of com hijacks (where someone picks up your commander with a heavy transport takes it to their base and kills it early on in the game)

I dunno i wanna bitch and moan about it but i think a feature should be you cant transport enemy units... it just takes alot of fun outta the game in my opinion

I hate it as well, it's got nothing to do with strategy. But other people seem to really love it.. :(

Its ONLY for fun, no point unless you resurrect the dead com XD

Your com can only be picked up if he is standing still. Just move him away from the transport and shoot it down with some units or nearby tower. If you don't have any units or defensive towers by the time they have a heavy transport in your base, you're doing something wrong.

Why only Com Hijacking?

Stun a Dante and use a transport to get it between your Faradays.

We only need a Transport Fortress with 5k metal cost, 17k HP and speed 10.

or remove the heavy transporter and give Krow some capacity ( about 3 units? )

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I think it is fine right now.

It would only be unfair if transporters have a gravity beam to hold your com at the position it want while catching it.

But then the transporter should also have 1000 HP and cost 750 metal too.

You only need some stunner drones, or 2 defender.
( 2 defenders make 600 damage )

A Faraday can help too.

Agreed with Pxtl. It's actually quite counterintuitive that you can "transport" your opponents' units too.

I am a bit surprised that this is seen as effective.

The rush costs 500 and is beaten by normal early raider defence and moving your commander. As in you could have some turrets which will deal some damage. If you have a construction it can make a defender to do some damage. If the transport attempts to collect your commander and the commander moves, it's weapon will kill the transport.

But I would like to retain enemy unit transporting. Not for the ability to early game commnap as I'm pretty sure that cannot be done as a normal rush, sure you may be able to do it with many people cooperating but that's a case of one team using teamwork and the other not.

Anyway I would like to keep transporting enemy units for the creativity. There is always EMPing an opponents force and stealing key units. Or for example you could defeat a lone Jugglenaut by spamming cloggers at it to bump and slow it down leaving several transports free to swoop in and capture it. I don't know all the possibilities but a large part of the game design is creating a lot of room for possibilities such as these.

So I think the issue is new people not knowing how to respond, which is an issue. It is sort of a issue with lots of possibilities, to not be suddenly killed players need to have a fair idea of the types of things that can be done.

A special exception is a problem for learning the possibilities in the long term. If things follow generally applicable rules you merely have to know the rules and you will be able to combine them and come up with creative solutions. With exceptions there is the extra burden of learning when the rules don't apply. For example someone could have a level 4 Rambo comm messing up their base, a spy and a transporter currently deal with this just like they would for other unsupported units.

So... in the end I'd rather just yet as it looks like a meta-game hiccup.

yea that sound like a crappy thing to do so it shoudnt be allowed

You should have seen my face when after 6 months of playing got my comm napped for the first time yesterday - amazing experience, I will make sure it won't happen again:). You can not ban it, as it is crafty thing to do and so easy to avoid.

what about leaving it as it is, but adding a warning when enemy transport is in los of com, something like when your com takes damage?