What does everyone feel about an energy gate?

[zac503]

Often times in this game it's not about what you build but rather when you build it. Since the game is based on chain of supply, something like an energy gate that can be toggled on or off would be kind cool. You could either do this with a new unit or make it a standard option on a collector/relay whether or not to forward packets. Seems like it could help layout a bigger map and make it easy to stop funding unnecessary resources without killing them. Thoughts?

[TheBuilder]

Interesting, sounds reasonable, don't how hard it would be to implement, but still cool.

[Karsten75]

Gate open:



Gate closed:



Or should it be the other way round? Open gate means circuit is broken, packets don't flow. Closed gate means circuit is complete and packets are flowing.

:P

[TheBuilder]

When it comes to electricity, open means the connection is broken, closeed means the connection is connected


open should equal no connection

closed should equal connection

[betadata]

I dont see the benefit of cutting collectors or other resource buildings off from the network. We can toggle consumers between active/non active and armed and disarmed. therefor reducing consumption. Yes it may take some clicks to turn off a whole bunch but we do have pause.

[TheBuilder]

this could be used to deactivate large section of defense/offense with just one click on larger maps

[zac503]

While you could leave a hole in your grid and then fill it. it doesn't work well for disconnecting because you have to destroy one of your units to do so. It would be much more efficient to be able to just tell a collector to stop forwarding. Maybe there could be a hotkey for enabling all gates?

[Karsten75]

You simply bridge two collectors or relays with a mobile weapons unit. No need to destroy units.  My pictures show this clearly.

[DaBloxxer]

you can just pause it(next to options), and then desarm or deactivate what you want to

[Clippy]

you can just pause it(next to options), and then desarm or deactivate what you want to

that wont break the connection tho.... if its built the packets will still go through

[TheBuilder]

From what i can tell, his gate would still keep the energy flowing from the collectors and any other bonesses from other buildings, but could be turned to "open" making it so that no packets can pass through.

Am i right?

[Katra]

I think it would be better to just have the option to deactivate (ie stop building) any structure under construction like you can turrets.