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Need to be have commander ability to build probes like you would a caltrop or tower.

Would mitigate small game problem of not having enough people to eye stuff.

Have probe constructor cost $500 or $1000, have it deployable like a caltrop, only it's a probe. Can only make one at a time like caltrop or tower.

Doable?

Easily doable; core issue, in fact. Towers are just probes with an ammunition type.

The price point would need to be set high enough to be a waste of money in big games. 500 should be plenty. 1000 may be a bit much. Can we make it a "sy off" tech, or does that only work the other way?

You can make it a sy off tech through some hoops - set it to be upgradedd on the SY flag and have the upgraded version unavailable

500 as price would be good, but the probe would have to build about 700 m from stuff alephs or rocks or whatever. not closer i think. u dont want to spend 500 to place a probe on an aleph where a blind int can get in and spot it and shot it down.

TurkeyXIII wrote:QUOTE (TurkeyXIII @ Feb 11 2013, 01:11 AM) Easily doable; core issue, in fact. Towers are just probes with an ammunition type.

Would they then be limited to 4 at a time, or whatever the drone limit is?

In that case making them cheaper wouldn't hurt anything since they couldn't be overly spammed, but easily replaced if killed.

You do realise that once the drone "plants" it no longer counts in the drone limit? (i.e. you can plant 100 SC towers, 4 at a time). You can make a 30-second blind drone constructor that plants standard probes at ~100$ per. It takes commander's time to micro them around so why not.

If I'm paying 500 it better pick up pods

I ran this idea by Noir many years ago, but in a pulse probe constructor fashion. Was going to call it Eye of Sauron or some @#(!.
The constructor was to be infinitely fast and invulnerable, so basically functioning as a temporary view into any sector.

Like a terran scan?