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Possible? Maybe. Probably.

Will anyone consider it even for a split second? Definitely no, because it brings nothing, improves nothing and steps on something that works perfectly fine.

Agreed.

Also Relic has the UI code, not the modders.

The units are so spread out. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

Pros:
* Less prone to rng squad wipes by indirect fire
* Less prone to squad wipes by grenades

Cons:
* I think cover will still have to be clumped up unless you make the walls and objects larger and cover more spread out. Might be a programming limitation
* Less punishing to blobs

Was clumping intentional from Relic's side and why?

I think it is because CoH 2 has a monopoly in RTS atm. And also because it has a strong legacy. Also Relic makes great games.

Also because of COH2.org and community who made it (AmiPolizeiFunk, etc.) and those who help run it.

Coming back to this point:



Because I'm not sure people fully understand how upkeep works mathematically.

While the upkeep price per pop is a fixed linear ratio, the actually achievable pop functions asymptotically.

Assuming upkeep is 1.6 per pop:

At 0 pop you have about 300 manpower/min income.

At 100 pop you have 140 manpower/min income.

At 178 pop you have a 0 manpower/min income.




Unless your opponent saved 1,000s of manpower before starting to build this massive sim city, it would take until the heat death of the universe for them to ever build more than one or two emplacements more than they already can.


I think some of you are under the impression that removing pop-caps would result in infinitely large armies, but it doesn't thanks to the asymtote nature of upkeep.

At some point upkeep on units actually becomes a massive liability depending on how aggressive the fighting is.

What good is keeping 20 ober squads if it takes literal days to reinforce them after a fight?

It's not because I had to make the upkeep mechanic in my CoH clone. I believe it is

MPINCOME = STARTINGMPINCOME - 1.5 * POP

And a a MAX(MPINCOME, 0) to prevent negatives. STARTINGMPINCOME is 300.

So if you had 100 pop you would get +150MP or 200 pop would result in 0

But anyways, there's an implicit popcap due to upkeep (~200). You are posting as if you want infinite size armies. You're going to have to change upkeep and remove popcap if you want that.

If all you want to do is remove popcap, you'll still have an average max army size due to upkeep that just happens to be larger than what we have currently. Idt that's what you want. Otherwise, ask for a larger popcap.

You want a snowball effect sort of thing, that's going to break the whole game

Whole game will break without popcap. Too much to list, here are some:

* spam only 1 unit like snipers or Panthers
* undefeatably large armies
* performance: high rendering costs and server side computation costs
* network: high bandwidth will result in lags, fast forward hitches, and delays
* snowballing
* short matches as a result of snowballing.
* less strategic since this is one less constraint to worry about
* infantry will become obsolete late game and will result in pure tank spamming since it will be a game of army strength instead of combi ef arms unit composition
* sim city: imagine 19 mortar pits and fifteen 17 pounders and 12 bofors. In fact, if I was brit, I would never stop making emplacement until the whole map is covered with it. I'll even block all paths with them
* arty spam
* large armies may be cooler but requires more micro management - might become more of a Starcraft like game displeasing to players who cannot control huge armies
* Korean uprising and domination
* squads don't make sense anymore since we have infantry squads to keep # of units to minimum