CABAL wrote:I quite like this idea. Although I'm not quite sure Many people will pick replicators... (Perhaps giving them (and them only) a MS bonus or something would increase it's popularity).
Well actually, they wouldn't be half as bad as they seem, if the units killed were actually resurrected as their meant to. I seem to recall playing as an unascended repli(long ago), and i would look in my logs. I'd loose like 30-40k when being massed, and get like 15uu back. If the covert bonus and the recovery bonus were the same, as in recover 25%, I'm sure people would prefer it alot more. Especially if they went into miners, and the 10% lifers weren't taken out. That way, they wont get raided, once the defence is massed. I mean seriously, who wouldn't like 25% of their losses to be returned to them.
CABAL wrote:And also, an unascended, when fully 'upgraded' should have their 'privileged' stat as strong (IF not, stronger) Than the ascended's equivalent.
i.e. An Asgard's def weapons will have 5670 power after the last upgrade (Or whatever the ascended atk weapon strengths are), Same with Tau'ri's atk, and Repli's cov. Not sure about Goa'uld though :s
I believe TC and myself, discussed this in our posts. Whereby they keep the 25% for their main stat, and get like 2%/tech upgrade. That way, for 23 levels, they'd have 46+25, which is 71%, which is higher then an ascended, but if you gave the non-central stats only 1%, they'd get 23% bonus, much less then they ascended's 47% or whatever it is.
CABAL wrote:And also, what happens to the revived units if the Goa'uld player is over the raid cap?
I'm not sure. Probably the same as whatever happens when a Goa'uld currently reaches the raid cap, and get's UU. Even if they did keep the UU, it would help to balance the fact that they don't get any specific stat bosted above the others, other then just their income. So you could consider this a balancing. Of course, people could chop and change to in essence raid above the cap, but they would need a few race changes to keep doing it whenever they got attacked