Topic: Detectors and detection
There is a lot of discussion on this topic in the thread about roaming but I think it really deserves a topic of it's own.
Some of the problems that people have listed are:
- having a detector with your fleet is compulsory unless you want to look stupid
- small, fast detector bots are very hard to chase down or evade once they have seen you
- detectors effectively shrink the available island space because it's so easy to scout most of an island in a few minutes
My suggestions are:
- improve base detection on heavies and industrial bots, imo it doesn't really make much sense that they are so blind by comparison.
- limit detectors to mech sized bots and above
-Add a ping that everyone can see every time the detector cycles.
The idea is that if you want to roll on an island and tell everyone "here we are, come take us on if you dare" you can do that.
-Confucius