Terran Salvage Ship

Since Protoss and Zerg get some pretty neat stuff, we as humans, should be able to recycle material. I would like the idea of having a salvage ship on the battlefield collecting destroyed parts and debris allowing me to gain small bits of minerals and vespene gas from every destroyed unit in the radius of the Salvage ship.

 

haha yeah i like that idea, although it would be a problem getting the parts in the enemys base. but they should make it so after a while say 5-10 minutes the debris dissapears.

 

i would love to see this idea in sc2 but as i mentioned in the "ideas that shouldnt be implemented" thread i believe this idea should be reserved for CoH and supcom ^_^

 

its gonna collect dead zerg corpses too? and what do terrans do with protoss material they find? i mean how will they recycle technology they dont understand? lol `

anyways it should be able to cloak since itld be a nice target for any unit or yould have to sent a bunch of units with it everytime assuming build at the starport itld cost min+vespin you dont wanna lose 10 of these...

 

It wouldn't collect zerg corpses as they have no real material to reuse, if you do have a Salvage Ship on your side, you would still be collecting some minerals and vespene gas back from your destroyed units.

EDIT - I didn't see that topic but after searching for it Power, I would have to disagree!

 

eh i thought terrans don't recycle and lay waste to every planet they go to.

 

the debris sinks into the ground after like 10 seconds though.

 

hmm.. I dont think the terrans are interested in recycling on tha battlefield would be alittle troublesome however I think it would be kool if they had like a repair bay building or add-on would be nice to mass repair

 

eh thats what SCVs are for!

 

ya but they cant repair air units or multiple things at once which is what I ment by saying mass-repair

 

Sure they can't repair multiple things at once but i'll be damned if I don't repair my expensive BCs after they tear through a base.

 

mass repair would just make the game more easier and convienient. Imagine having 10 critically damaged battlecruisers and just have it go to the repair place and leave them there. It's just too easy. It needs to balance out with other races by sacrificing mineral collecting to repair using SCVs. It'll be a huge advantage compared to zerg (heals very very slowly) and the protoss (only shield regeneration... and even that you need to build shield batteries and it has limited energy).

 

It would be nice if you could sell/destroy structures and units you don't want anymore. But this isn't SupCom so no to your idea.

 

This is true. They mine a planet until it's resources are exhausted and then they go to the next one.

 

I believe Terrans are also opportunists and with that said, who wouldn't want to reuse material that has already been crafted? It's true that Terrans are resource hungry, however I would think that the conflict zone is deprived by resources as all three races are extracting the minerals and gas. So wouldn't the Terrans think about it? It would definitely save time and resources.

 

yes, till they lose the resource war cause they're too busy being environmentally efficient

 

Dude...gotta cut down on the global warming....Terran only use hybrid goliaths

 

i think the terran should get helicopters that shoot out homing missles that make the zerglings cry.

 

but from the gameplay demo, the stuff disappeared in 7 seconds

 

This is why they have salvage yards (like the ones that Kerrigan said Mengsk was raiding to build his new fleet). They have contractors come in and pick the stuff up after the battle is over. You can't be doing that stuff in the middle of battle, someone could get killed.