What would happen if repair was made viable?

[Wakke]

By viabe, I mean it would cost considerably less than 100% of the unit's cost to repair a fully damaged unit/building.

What would the impact be on the gameplay?

[MushrooMars]

It would make Cybran and UEF OP because they could just stick Engineering Stations in their frontline outpost and tank until the cows come home.

But I'm starting to sound like some of our more cynical players saying that. It would have to cost less than rebuilding the unit by a nice margin (80-90% of full price theoretically to repair from 0 health). It would also have to be relatively automatic; that was one of the good things about SupCom 2.

It shouldn't be that hard to add an 'auto assist' button to regular Engineers and add an 'auto assist radius' for them to use. The player could turn on/off auto assist (it would be off be default) so that the Engineers wouldn't omnomnom a fragile economy with pointless repairs.

But I'm getting ahead of myself, I just like to implement things. I'll leave the whole 10-page balance debate up to our "Pros".

[Veta]

In StarCraft I think it costs 75% of the unit/structure cost.

[ZLO_RD]

what will happen?
Mantis repair ftw!
T2-t3 huge hp units will retreat to base for repair,
Repair experimentals, repair everywhere!!!

But actually some units may have regen for free and unit with low hp have same dps and other parametres as unit with full hp

Not sure about planes, not even know howmuch effective refuel station is, but planes can retreat fast.
Players will bring ingeners with navy to repair
Units like radar, stealth, shield and arty and snipers(low hp high cost) will not be repaired anyway

I would like to see acu repair back, i will repair it after it teleport back to base so it can safly tele outside again :p

[Vicarian]

what will happen?
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Not sure about planes, not even know howmuch effective refuel station is, but planes can retreat fast.
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Air refueling stations aren't that great. If you have a large force of aircraft that eat a commander's nuke, then send the blob to refueling stations for repair, they'll hover constantly over the station even after getting repaired because they become low on fuel due to bad pathing. You have to micro the repairs every time if you don't want this to happen.

[ColonelSheppard]

it works quite well with 3-4 refuelstations and just pressing the return home button (the yeollow/orange one every plane has)

[Vicarian]

Unless it was changed recently, the aircraft would ignore the presence of more than one refueling station and just hover over 1. I stopped using them for this reason, preferring instead just to spam, or when my eco is good, make aircraft carriers.

[ZLO_RD]

i was talking about repair efficiency of it, but if you look that way, you can just build alot of them, cause they are cheap,
I had problems with microing them, but i think you can handle that problem...

[snuffles]

Can't repair Air Transports on the refuel pads. Maybe enabling that would be a nice start.

[Wakke]

What makes the repair situation a bit silly atm, is that it's often more effective to ctrl-k a unit, reclaim it, and rebuild it, as opposed to repairing it.

Also, I don't think reducing repair costs will lead to a OP situation were everyone is mass-repairing. It still costs buildpower, and micro, and considerable resources (say 75% of the unit's cost). Repair would just become an other viable strategy to deploy.

Worth exploring?