Pylon Upgrades

Yeah i respect your opinion hehehe :thumbup:, but well just try to imagine that pylon is slowly warping into a Laser pylon and it will turn to a color red fromcolor blue, with a thin crystal, hehehe, well that is my opinion with Imagination :thumbup:

 

Oh you mean like the pylon BECOMES the cannon. Hmm that might work

 

Yap thats what i mean, you get my point dood
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I personally think that the Pylon should stay the Pylon and not gain any upgrades or abilities in Starcraft II. They serve as a psionic anchor for Protoss buildings and as the Psi for Protoss warriors, they don't need anything else. Not to mention since there are so many of them in a Protoss base, it would be too much easy defense/shield recharge.

I think if they put a shield recharging ability into Starcraft II, they should impliment the idea I came up with in the Shield Battery thread. Of course, I really don't think they need to add anything because of how the new Protoss shields work anyway.

 

i think the upgrades would need to be purchased individually for each pylon

 

I like the idea of a movable pylon. maby it loses all of its shields when moveing. I can see the tower rush now.

 

pylons shouldn't move, cannon's are already moveable

 

We have a moveable pylon its called the phase prism.

Imagine the new tower rush before you had to wait for the pylons to warp in now you can use a phase prism or two to bring in a probe and some other units drop pylons and get the cannons in before the pylons are even done then warp in some more units from the warp gates. Thats enough for me

 

Okay. These ideas all seem reasonable, but, we need to remember what a pylon is. http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Pylon The Pylon is a Khaydarin Crystal-based Psionic Matrix Generator. This Matrix combine with the Psionic Energy from Aiur powers Protoss buildings. (Nexus, Pylon, Assimilator excluded.) Now then. Something that you could possibly do is make the Phase Prism recharge Protoss Shields. (On units only excluding self-healing.) It would meet all requirements and make it would give it an even more supportive role. As the Phase Prism can change between Psionic Matrix and Flight Mode already. So, if it were not in Psionic Matrix mode it would get an energy count and be able to regenerate shields like the Shield Battery did. Ya.... just an idea.

 

you would have to build a lot of them because that would make them a high priority target

 

If you remember the Protoss Tech Tree that was shown a good deal of time ago the Phase Prism is Tier 3 Tech not nearly soon enough for a Tower Rush. Besides, if one like this were to come into existence it would be mainly for healing Capital ships at best as the small units would go down far too quickly in normal circumstances. So Tower Rush with Phase Prism = not possible. Ya...

 

makes sense i forgot about it being an advanced unit

 

I have an another idea what if they will, upgrade the Pylons in to a robotic warriors that can be used in the Battle,, or in short they will give the pylons a life to fight, well that is my idea.

PEACE :thumbup:

 

uhh actually its tier two. first unit of the robotics facility.

 

I actually think this is an excellent idea. My problem with the shield battery is that it was never where I needed it when I needed it. I always had to run back to my base, fill up maybe one or two units on shields and then run them back to the battle. It didn't work well at all. Since having ALL pylons be able to recharge shields would make a protoss base nigh invincible, I think it would be a great researched ability for the Phase Prism to be able to act as a shield generator when it is in the static pylon mode. You couldn't move it while it was a pylon/shield generator, but you can always put it into fly mode and move it around the map. It would be great to have a mobile shield battery that would actually be useful.

 

with the new recharging system, we don't need shield regenerators for the small units, for the big units, i kinda think we would need something like that terran shield, to help while recharging

i also think that the nexus should serve as a pylon, nexus: big bulk of psyonic or magic energy

 

What if the pylon had extra shield pack that would not be affected by attack but could be sucked out by other units, so before killing other units, it would be like killing the pylons shield first. The shield might have to be an upgrade per pylon because it is a little imballanced since there are a bunch of pylons and they are usually clustered. Since terran have the ability to sink their supply depots into the ground, the pylons should get stuff, too. The protoss don't recharge shields fast. In Halo it does but the Protoss don't.

 

Sorry man but you are giving the advantages of the other races to the Protoss without any drawbacks. So I can't support it. I mean does a protoss zealot really need to worry about healing when 1 of them can take on 2 marines and sometimes 4 zerglings? The old Shield battery is fine, or not, because the old zealots would get worked trying to catch the marines adn hydras but now they can run them down fine. I don't really believe the Protoss really need a heal.

 

I think that it's clear the lack of a shield battery (even though it sucked) leaves the protoss somewhat more vulnerable to attack. I hope there is either a shield recharge upgrade or some other mechanic (Fingers crossed for phase prism upgrade I wrote about above) that can help improve what the shield battery should have been.