Cap number of snipers?

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I was just watching the SNF warm-up broadcast from last week and got kind of nauseous from the amount of sniper spam. I have a modest proposal: limit the number of snipers that a player can have on the field at a time to two.

What do other people on the forum think?

I also humbly propose this "only two snipers at a time" limit to apply to COH1, in the extremely unlikely event that that game ever gets another balance patch.

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I categorically disagree with unit caps.
Force composition is mediated by cost.

If a unit is proving problematic in spam, then it indicates tier/cost/stat imbalance.

Unit caps restrict diversity of builds and are therefore bad.

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Agree or Disagree

Disagree because SSSSS is very fun to watch in replay and steam
Agree because SSSSS is very lame and irritating to play against

I tend to disagree

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Not such a great idea, please come up with something else

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Negative zeal which was proposed for vCoH is the way to go imo (they get weaker the more you blob them basically).

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5 Aug 2013, 12:20 PMNullist

I categorically disagree with unit caps.
Force composition is mediated by cost.

If a unit is proving problematic in spam, then it indicates tier/cost/stat imbalance.

Unit caps restrict diversity of builds and are therefore bad.

this is why i dont like idea.

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There are no caps on tigers/IS-2s so I don't think Relic is looking at unit caps at all.

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if people want to take the RISK of getting snipers let them.

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Are you really having problems with people who mass snipers? The capping power lost alone should make things a problem for anyone who does that. If they have the manpower to mass snipers like that AND cap the map then you are already somehow behind.

Massing snipers is usually a hilarious, but generally bad idea.

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5 Aug 2013, 22:25 PMbigchunk1

Are you really having problems with people who mass snipers? The capping power lost alone should make things a problem for anyone who does that. If they have the manpower to mass snipers like that AND cap the map then you are already somehow behind.

Massing snipers is usually a hilarious, but generally bad idea.

And this is what typically happens to me when I get 2+ snipers. It's funny when it works, but most of the time it doesn't. And when it works, I'd probably have won the game just as easily without the snipers.