Unlocks suggestion

This is what I suggest:
- "1v1", "FFA: All welcome!", "NEWBIES only", "COOP vs AI" should not have any unlocks at all. Everything should be available.

- "SMALL TEAMS", "TEAMS: All welcome!" should have strict unlocks policy, when every unit that potentially may harm to newbie/team/be misused, should be locked until some lvl/xp.
I suggest to lock out every static unit, except: factroies, mex, wind, solar, simple radar, sonar. Terraform should be locked too.

"Analogy is quite simple. Do you allow ur 10 year kids to play with fire, or drink alcohol? I guess no. Why?
Newb is like a drunk kid playing with fire, while he is driving at 100 miles/hour on oncoming lane... And you keep telling them: go on, good boy, everyone did this! If you kill yourself and 10 others, it's ok! Tomorrow 20 new kids will join our community!..." (...)
Following this analogy I do not suggest completely block them from playing with fire and drinking alcohol... I just tell: let them do this in more safely way when they can't harm others. If someone is going to kill himself, let him do this, okay, but when he won't take 10 others in this wonderful journey to the hell gates with no way back.

As a result we get:
- newbs like to start from "TEAMS: All welcome!". They won't be confused with 1000 new units, they will be restricted to few tactics. This will guide them on the right way - using mobility forces and not making singu in base protected by 20 stingers and 10 shields.
- they may not like this, if so they are welcome to play as they want to in - "1v1", "FFA: All welcome!", "NEWBIES only", "COOP vs AI"
WITHOUT unlocks.

This should lead to:
1. more "1v1", "FFA: All welcome!", "NEWBIES only", "COOP vs AI" games
2. less steep learning curve and faster game adoption
3. less rage and trolling at "SMALL TEAMS", "TEAMS: All welcome!", healthier community
4. happier newbies -> more players in general

A few days ago I was playing 6v6 with a bunch of newbies...
One of them built meteor controller and TKed my huge singu farm "by mistake". Game was lost.

P.S. I wrote this post without any trolling in my mind, so I ask to not judge my post looking at my nickname only but think with ur head.

Update from 10.06
Some links to replays, pay some attention what Ultrazidane90 was doing
http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/267673
http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/267671

as long as its just the 10v10 lagfest room that has unlocks i see no issues

also as long as it does not take 100+ hours to unlock evrything

This won't pass anyway, cuz sponge and his ''noob friendly" policy.

The option above is somewhat elegant on the grounds of saying that pub teams are uncompetitive in such a way that nobody notices.

Have your 13th upvote.

If newbies acting like newbies is only a problem for team games, then adding one or two 1500+ elo team game autohosts would be enough, no need for any unlock system.

So what do you do for comms? Player makes an OMG Hardkore comm to use in 1v1/FFA and finds out he can't use it in Teams because he hasn't unlocked it?

I'm just saying it's going to be frustrating for newbies that, if you allow custom comms in the "all unlocks free" servers, suddenly the newbs have to maintain two sets of comms - one with their actual unlocked content, and one set built with access to everything. How do you reconcile that? Stick to the list of 5 preconfigured comms?

quote: let him do this, okay, but when he won't take 10 others in this wonderful journey to the hell gates with no way back

who are you, and what have you done to fireman?

Actually when sfire isn't being a troll he's an ok guy. I hope we see more of him like this.

Silly Saksi u didnt get the point! He plays ffa and 1v1 too, but these cant be ruined by nubteam! So it should be "Enable the unlocks in ever game that I can lose because of nubs"!
Silly Saksi